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Who said spot on? hahah
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The more important question, probably, is whether this'll give the Luton board an excuse to sack Newell. I daresay that post bung-allegations, there are more than a few people in football who'd love to see him brought down by this daft outburst.
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I think Newell's latest outburst typifies what a complete and utter plank he really is. Football has worked hard to initiate anti-racism campaigns, so why should this issue be seen as light-hearted?
Which is worse, what Newell said at the weekend or Monty Panesar being called a "stupid Indian"?
Read Newell's comments again and substitute the word "sexist" for "racist" and "women" for "blacks". Oh no! It stops being funny!
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Bracey's got it right and as bandb noted on another thread, you don't have to be female to be a rubbish official.
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You mean Uriah isn't a woman's name?
Newell's outburst was completely potty, and is hardly worth commenting upon, unless one wishes to state that it confirms suspicions that the man is, as m'learned friend Bracey puts it, a 'plank'.
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Talking of refs, I liked it when that one got whacked in the goolies on the weekend, was it at the Arsenal game? Brilliant stuff! I only saw it once but I seem to remember it wasn't exactly a thunderbolt shot it was a header that bounced up off the ground. All right it's the crown jewels but the bloke was rolling about like a woodlouse on his back, what a bunch of wimps they are! Remember that idiot who Di Canio shoved, he should have been sent off himself for that, he looked like a granny falling!
Newell's a goon for saying that stuff but I think people should calm down a bit. I'd like to see more women involved, I think it would be good because I reckon they'd be more serious and less concerned about their image than preening idiots like Poll and to a lesser extent Uriah Rennie. Calm down a bit though, I'm fairly sure she would have thought something like this would come sooner or later, football really is not home to that many enlightened blokes really is it?
Give it time, if everytime some old dinosaur of a manager or whoever says "blah blah women shouldn't be here blah blah" the media make a massive thing of it then it'll never stop and then it's probably just as harmful to encouraging women into the game as silly rants like Newell's. This woman has no doubt worked really hard to get where she is, I doubt she's crying her eyes out and contemplating packing it all in just because of this. Things like this seem to me to only be a big deal if people make them one - on the grand scale of things is a footballer manager (having a fairly predictable rant about a woman in the game) that worthy of all this fuss?
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Agree with the tone, SB. Like the stewards who tell fans to sit down at games expecting them to not do the opposite  I sometimes feel it's the same with anti-racism in football, the indiscretions of a few idiots whip up a huge panic. A couple of years ago, some Blackburn fan got pulled for mocking Yorke and SKY et al would just not shut up about it for days. At the games the following weekend, more racism was reported to relevant authorities than at any time since 1994 (when 'Let's Kick Racism Out Of Football' took off). People start to look for problems that don't really exist when the media come down on demagogues like Newell. It's best to let the authorities deal with the accused and not give them the attention they so desire. |
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Its a shame that Mike Newell hates women...he doesnt know what he's missing  Phwaor phnarr phnarr and such... 
"Why do you take my statements with a papal seriousness?"
"I don't want the virgin olive oil..."
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Didn't a Premier League manager have a similar gripe about a woman linesman last season?
I don't think that he used quite the same language as Mike Newell, but I'm sure it was along the same lines.
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Tsk, where does the time go? Seems like only yesterday.
Now, where did I leave my Werthers?
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