Match of the Day - New Presenter?

[swaledale]

She's certainly not very good and a classic example of tokenism, covering at least three bases as far as I know.

She is no worse or better than most of the male presenters, but that after all is a purely subjective opinion. But it's good to know you can make a judgement on alleged "tokenism" based on no evidence whatsoever! Classic example for a white male being offended because somebody is different to them. By all means say she is isn't good enough, the rest just reveals you have certain prejudices.

[MadAmster]

She's certainly not very good and a classic example of tokenism, covering at least three bases as far as I know.

Wouldn't mind touching 4th base with her or Gabby.

[Andy_Faber]

We're off the subject of who SHOULD be MOTD main man, and the popular vote appears to be Mark Chapman by a country mile. Not sure how true the thing is about him not wanting a co-presenter or how much it would hurt him if he indeed said that, but in general terms I agree with him

[ramAnag]

We're off the subject of who SHOULD be MOTD main man, and the popular vote appears to be Mark Chapman by a country mile. Not sure how true the thing is about him not wanting a co-presenter or how much it would hurt him if he indeed said that, but in general terms I agree with him

I suppose it could be argued it would keep the tradition going. Middle aged, white, probably hetero***ual and male. Funny how no one mentions that when box ticking crops up.
Imo it just doesn’t matter. Mark Chapman is, imo, very good and better, again just imo, than AS, but we’re re talking about a sports presenter and personal opinion. I simply don’t care what gender or colour he/she is. I knew nothing of AS’s alleged s*xual preferences before last night and again, why does it matter?

[Andy_Faber]

I suppose it could be argued it would keep the tradition going. Middle aged, white, probably hetero***ual and male. Funny how no one mentions that when box ticking crops up.
Imo it just doesn’t matter. Mark Chapman is, imo, very good and better, again just imo, than AS, but we’re re talking about a sports presenter and personal opinion. I simply don’t care what gender or colour he/she is. I knew nothing of AS’s alleged s*xual preferences before last night and again, why does it matter?

No one (but you it appears) mention it because the best about in the footy sphere just happen to be white middle aged heteros. Not the case in other sports, Ronnie McIntosh for example in boxing, Isa Guha in cricket. And I’m not going to expand on the now widely discussed issue of box ticking throughout broadcast media as I will ‘trigger’ people

[ramAnag]

No one (but you it appears) mention it because the best about in the footy sphere just happen to be white middle aged heteros. Not the case in other sports, Ronnie McIntosh for example in boxing, Isa Guha in cricket. And I?’m not going to expand on the now widely discussed issue of box ticking throughout broadcast media as I will ?‘trigger?’ people

You’ll have to look elsewhere - in the direction of Surrey - to see who first mentioned it, but are the white, middle aged, male heteros really better than Gabby Logan and Kelly Cates at hosting a football TV programme?

Anyway, Mark Chapman, plus those two would be my three front runners, but it’s all just opinion.

[swaledale]

No one (but you it appears) mention it because the best about in the footy sphere just happen to be white middle aged heteros. Not the case in other sports, Ronnie McIntosh for example in boxing, Isa Guha in cricket. And I’m not going to expand on the now widely discussed issue of box ticking throughout broadcast media as I will ‘trigger’ people

You flatter yourself, just because I found your observation that there were (and I paraphrase) too many ethnic presenters in the media which didn't reflect the world you inhabit, rather lacking in self awareness and an indication you were more concerned with the ethnicity of the person doing the job than how well the person was doing the job. it's not triggering, just rather lamentable. But then I just see an actor, a news reporter or a sports presenter and my opinion is based on how well they do the job in my view. Whether they are male, female, black, brown, white, gay, bi or whatever has no influence on my option whatsoever.

In terms of the "best" presenters/commentators being white middle aged heteros, not really sure how you can definitely determine a persons ***uality (or why it matters), indeed in mens football there is such a stigma against being openly anything other than hetero***ual, that I would suggest that the law of averages suggests nobody actually does know who isn't.

It is any case a subjective opinion coloured by ones own bias as to whether a particular person is the "best" presenter.

[Geoff Parkstone]

Wouldn't mind touching 4th base with her or Gabby.

With you there MA but the prurience police here wouldn't approve of such comments.

[swaledale]

With you there MA but the prurience police here wouldn't approve of such comments.

I'm sure AF will pop up and scold you for such ***ist comments as he did with me quite a while back when I made a similar comment about women's volleyball!

As for me, I wasn't policing prurience, just surprised that one would critique a presenter for anything other than their ability to do the job.

[Andy_Faber]

Off the subject slightly but my favourite presenter appears for 17 consecutive weeks in the autumn and early winter and just lets the ?game? speak for itself / Scott Hanson, who anchors NFL Redzone on sky Sports Mix (in UK) for ?seven advert free hours? from 6pm. Not sure the programme style would translate to footy but he adds spice to an already spicy (to me) spectacle