Glad Andy Gray has gone, watching games on Sky Sports will now be bareable. Looks like they could move Jamie Redknapp into that role as it seems he's being groomed for it...

Personally I don't think women look silly playing, commentating or officiating at football. 

That said, I think it is "PC gone mad" to sack him.  And PC gone mad from an unexpected source - a Murdoch source of all sources - the same Murdoch who brought page 3 to nation's family breakfast tables.  Considering John McCrick has made a media sport punditry career out of being grossly offensive to women Gray's comments are pretty innocuous IMO.

I can't help thinking this off the cuff remark comes at a convenient time and IMO, no small coincidence that Andy Gray is also suing Rupert Murdoch's "News of the World".

Well looks like Murdoch and his offsping will get their way and own SKY outright! That Hunt bloke is okaying it...fix!

Oh and Cameron has been often seen in the company/hospitality of Murdoch junior....spits!

Alistair Campbell live on 5live earlier suggested it could well be Murdoch that had it in for Gray, over something to do with the phone tapping thing, I don't know why Gray was involved in that, but it seems he was. Apparently Gray is already suing NOTW for that.

Why would anyone be keeping footage of Gray making these comments from last year? Someone working there has been holding onto it for a reason. And why is he being treated differently to Keys?

I think they have too look at it if it was a racist comment they would both have been sacked instantly, so they have to be seeing doing something for sexism (do you get what i mean? it seem's right in my head but i don't know if came out right)

well I for one am going to get a job as a referee - I know everything there is to know about that inside rule  

I get you Aimee and it did come out right and I do agree

Thanks Sparkles, i knew what i was trying to say

Another video of Keys making comments off air... who the hell is it releasing all these videos?

Perhaps if Andy hadn't hassled 40% of his employees he would have been OK?

Richard Keys is on talksh*te... ott with his apologies, but he does point out if everyone was sacked for making those kind of comments... there would be alot of people out of work.

Actually that should have been 40% of his employers I've no problems with the rest of 'em being sacked. No-one is indispensable nowadays.

Slim thats one of my fave videos....

Liz Cundy on Sky News...

FOR SALE One massive f****** iPad, like new, barely used. Contact: andy.gray@skysports.com

Take a bow son! 

Gray & Keys out...





G.Thompson & C.Kamara in?

Make it Windass and Kamara and the viewing figures would go through the roof

I'd like to see Jeff Stelling take over.

Andy Gray last night called in his lawyers and told pals he is considering suing Sky after being ousted from the job he loves.

The presenter paid the price for sexist remarks aimed at assistant referee Sian Massey as well as comments he made about co-star Charlotte Jackson.

But the furious 55-year-old claimed he had been stitched up by bosses who used the furore surrounding his remarks to oust him and pave the way for the ­promotion of younger presenters.

And it was said he had been prevented from apologising to Massey, even though co-host Richard Keys had been allowed to say sorry for similar remarks he made during the same show.

Andy Gray last night called in his lawyers and told pals he is considering suing Sky after being ousted from the job he loves.

The presenter paid the price for sexist remarks aimed at assistant referee Sian Massey as well as comments he made about co-star Charlotte Jackson.

But the furious 55-year-old claimed he had been stitched up by bosses who used the furore surrounding his remarks to oust him and pave the way for the ­promotion of younger presenters.

And it was said he had been prevented from apologising to Massey, even though co-host Richard Keys had been allowed to say sorry for similar remarks he made during the same show.

Some sources also fear his axing after 18 years as the face of Sky football could be linked to his legal dispute with the News of the World over the alleged phone tapping scandal, as both Sky and the paper are owned by Rupert Murdoch.

Gray was last night talking to lawyers and is thinking about legal action after being booted off his £1.7million-a-year post.

One source said: “He feels like he has been stitched up and people working against him at Sky have set all this up to get him the boot. He loved doing that job and didn’t get much of a chance to get his point of view across.

“But it feels like a changing of the guard at Sky and this will give bosses a chance to promote Ben Shephard and Jamie Redknapp quicker.”

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Dits I took that pic down

oooh.. ta!  

sorted  

“But it feels like a changing of the guard at Sky and this will give bosses a chance to promote Ben Shephard and Jamie Redknapp quicker.”

Ben Shepard!!!!, anyone but that silly little goody 2 shoes mummy's boy, he's a knob!. I never met a bloke yet that looks up to that dimwit! He's a Tosser with a major capital T!

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Not a fan then,Poolshark?

No, the man is a dick!

Correct.

Richard Keys has resigned.

Keys has apologised and resigned..wonder if he went before he was pushed.

Richard Keys has resigned

Just read it on Sky news website, probably a good thing, they both said stupid outdated comments. It always amazes me when people in the spotlight get annoyed when we the public get to hear what they really think, and not the words they speak on camera to make us think they are a different type of person so we will like them.

Just seen it on the 10 o clock news.  Oh dear.......

Were Andy and Richard 'stitched up' though? as Andy claims?  Thing is, he (Andy) has been pretty sexist a few times before and has proven himself to be a masoginist of the highest order.

Richard Keys has suggested that "dark forces" are partly to blame for the continued storm over his and Andy Gray's sexist comments about female assistant referee Sian Massey.

In an interview on TalkSport this afternoon, Keys claimed that he was asked not to make public the fact that he had telephoned Sian Massey to apologise on Sunday afternoon.

Keys referred to "a firestorm raging out there" that was "very difficult to step into the middle of" and said that he hoped to "correct the misinformation that's been put about".

"I would like to reiterate what I said to Sian Massey on Sunday afternoon... not as reported after this storm blew up," he said.

"There is no excuse anywhere for anybody to make a judgement on someone's ability to do a job because they are male or female - that was wrong."

Keys added of his conversation with Massey: "She was in good spirits and I expressed my disappointment that Andy and I in misguidedly having a little fun got it wrong... she and I enjoyed some banter together - we left on very good terms."

He continued: "Am I defending what we said or did? No - I've never had a problem saying sorry when I'm wrong. It was wrong, we were wrong.

"On behalf of Andy and myself we unreservedly apologise for our behaviour. [I can] stand up and get battered because I deserve to be."

However, Keys also added that there were "dark forces at work here", noting of his apology to Massey: "I asked could we make public that we had a conversation and could we move on - I was told no. I don't know why I was told no - I don't know why I was stopped.

"All I can do is sit here and apologise for our behaviour. I cannot believe the frenzy that's blown up. If I'd been able to get out the fact that I said sorry on Sunday I think it wouldn't have done.

"I reacted to it immediately when I knew it was a problem. I rang Sian... I rang Karren [Brady]. She refused to accept my call."

Of Brady's response to the storm, Keys noted that the matter had forced the problems at West Ham United - of whom she is vice chairman - from the back pages.

"She knows and everybody else knows what a mess they made of [trying to appoint] Martin O'Neill," he claimed. "She played that card, rightly or wrongly."

Regarding Rio Ferdinand's criticism of the "Lads' mag humour" he had exhibited, Keys said: "Rio, does it not take place in the Manchester United dressing room? My information is it does."

Keys also criticised the front cover of The Sun, which featured Massey out at a nightclub with the headline "Get 'Em Off".

"To put a picture [like that] of her on the page was in my opinion not right - particularly in these circumstances."

"Dark Forces" = Murdoch and co.

Is that what he's calling disgruntled women now is it?

Think Andy's been a twat and I think he's been stitched up 

As they didn't sack Keys he may have a case too.

Dark forces?  It must be the DEMENTORS!!! 

Ben Shepherd might not be a bad choice actually although I don't watch Sky so it matters little to me. He has an excellent understanding of the game and is quite a useful defender when he plays in charity matches etc. And he's a competant and pleasant presenter
Plus I doubt we would get the sexist drivel that those two indulge in.

So, he's still lying!