Roy Hodgson pulled up by the FA

[Blue in Munich]

Roy has apparently been caught out by using a politically incorrect joke during the half time talk on Tuesday.

http://www.whoateallthepies.tv/inte...e-nasa-monkey-joke-about-andros-townsend.html

 

[rosecott]

BBC website:

The Football Association has given its "full support" to Roy Hodgson after claims a comment made in a team-talk by the England manager caused offence.

Hodgson was criticised for referring to a joke about a monkey and an astronaut at half-time in Tuesday's World Cup qualifier against Poland.

"He has and deserves the full support of the Football Association," FA chairman Greg Dyke said.


That doesn't sound like "being pulled up by the FA".

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

but it isn't a politically incorrect joke - no different from saying 'give a million monkeys a million typewriters and one will type the first line of War and Peace'

 

[Deleted member 1740]

I was listening to Talksport on my way home this evening and they had the reporter for that dirty rag on who broke the story and he said a player contacted him after the game and told him about what was said.

The player was very offended by Roy's comments apparently.

So, who do you think the grass is?

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Just look for a avaricious thicket and you'll find the grass. Clearly an illiterate numbskull who is too dim to understand the historical context of the joke - yes laddie - Russia and the USA put animals into space in the early days of space travel

 

[Cherry13]

I've read the joke, and the only offence committed is that Roy is not a very good joke teller.

I just feel sorry for him tho, greatest night of his career and then got to deal with this.

 

[Blue in Munich]

BBC website:

The Football Association has given its "full support" to Roy Hodgson after claims a comment made in a team-talk by the England manager caused offence.

Hodgson was criticised for referring to a joke about a monkey and an astronaut at half-time in Tuesday's World Cup qualifier against Poland.

"He has and deserves the full support of the Football Association," FA chairman Greg Dyke said.


That doesn't sound like "being pulled up by the FA".

He used his press conference to apologise for a comment made behind closed doors which may have offended a certain player (but didn't); who do you think got him to apologise for the comment before giving him their backing?

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

..and who is the bare-faced liar of a player who has tried to have Hodgson crucified that Hodgson is going to put his trust in. There is one nasty piece of work in there - I want the captain (Gerrard) to root him out - for the spiritual well-being (trust and honesty with each other) of the whole squad.

 

[Blue in Munich]

..and who is the bare-faced liar of a player who has tried to have Hodgson crucified that Hodgson is going to put his trust in. There is one nasty piece of work in there - I want the captain (Gerrard) to root him out - for the spiritual well-being (trust and honesty with each other) of the whole squad.

Speculation elsewhere that one player in the dressing room mentioned it in passing to another, and that player then passed it on to the press, so it may not be a dressing room issue, but if it was one of the team then I'd want him outed too.

 

[chrisd]

Another total non story made up by the media to be something that it absolutely isnt

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Another total non story made up by the media to be something that it absolutely isnt

The story for me is that a player has tried to make something 'racist' of the joke and whether directly or not has fed the press the 'racist' non-story.

 

[chrisd]

The story for me is that a player has tried to make something 'racist' of the joke and whether directly or not has fed the press the 'racist' non-story.

I agree. However the media reporting is trying to suggest the same when they know full well that there was no racist intent

 

[JustOne]

Headline:

Manager makes racist joke that wasn't racist and we know it but think we'll discuss it as a racist joke anyway!


I like a video I saw only yesterday (can't remember from where, 8 out of 10 cats maybe?) where a reporter (trying to infer that a politician was racist) shoved a magazine in the politicians face and asked why the picture of the crowd on the front page didn't have any black people in it - to which the politician replied to the reporter "You racist!, why are you looking thru the crowd at the colour of peoples skin?"

I thought it was quite clever.

 

[Sweep]

The BBC are still running the non-story again this morning, running a clip of Norwich Manager Chris Hughton saying that, knowing Roy, he is sure no offence was intended. I wonder why they chose Chris Hughton? Nothing to do with the colour of his skin, surely?

 

[Snelly]

The whole thing is baseless garbage. The only people that are interested in it are the colossal tools that make up the British media.

 

[HawkeyeMS]

The whole thing is baseless garbage. The only people that are interested in it are the colossal tools that make up the British media.

Couldn't have put it better myself

 

[In_The_Rough]

Another nothing story. Whoever has blabbed to the media needs finding and if it is a player should never wear the national teams shirt again. Roy Hodgson racist:rofl: you couldn't make it up

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Whatr goes on behind closed dressing room doors should stay there. If anyone doesn't like it then don't play

 

[Stuey01]

Just chiming in to agree that this is indeed a colossal non-story and waste of time.

 

[Stuey01]

Whatr goes on behind closed dressing room doors should stay there. If anyone doesn't like it then don't play

That I can't agree with, if indeed discrimination and racism is going on then it should be outed, whether behind the dressing room door or not.

BUT in this case there wasn't, at all.