Not content with his team playing shyte Moyes plays the Glasgow hardman with a female reporter... http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39484238 Seems like he'll be on dole again pretty soon...
... and so Moyes leaves the Press Room dressed in his animal skin, heavy club on his shoulder, dragging the female reporter behind him by the hair, ready for a good night out on the Gorbals
You can take the man out of the Gorbals but you can't take the Gorbals out of the man, he's definitely Fergie-Lite...
This was taken ludicrously out of context. Such a nothing incident blown out of proportion on a slow news day.
Didn't sound like anything more than a jokey comment but it wasn't a very clever thing to say and I'm sure he'll regret being so stupid. Looks like a perfect excuse to get rid of him. He can now become a Nivea face cream model.
To be fair, Durbar, you can compare anything if you want to. Why, yesterday, I compared a sausage with an apricot. They're quite different you know.
I feel sorry for Moyes. It was an off the cuff comment meant in jest. He laughed, the reporter laughed and the camera crew laughed. A joke that should have been end of. Now some no mark at the FA has got hold of it and it's WW3 FFS!
Who gets to decide whether it's a joke or not, the teller, the subject or the listeners? Should be like the Olympic boxing point scoring system, if all three laugh at the same time then it's a joke, otherwise the perpetrator victim and witnesses get to rotate and try it again and again
I don't think Moyes should lose his job, but this was more than banter. It was a veiled threat. He even repeated the threat that she should take care. It was intended to be a shot across her bows, to discourage her from asking him difficult questions in future. It's significant that in his apology, he didn't claim banter, but that he misspoke, and the "slap" phrase wasn't him. I accept that, I don't think it is him, he's under huge pressure. But there should be some media censure, and then we move on... ... and no, I don't think he should be sent on a course...
I think he must be sent on one. I had to when I worked for the Southwark Council and it was hilarious, they think of things you'd never think of to the extreme. By time you finish it you are losing the will to live. It was the same with their racism and diversity courses which are earning a lot of money for the people who run them but often cause more trouble for managers than they are worth...
