[Other Sport] Sack or hauled over the coals? You decide……..(not really as decision already made)

FFS - people dying in wars, global warming etc and this is a news item...

The women had just won a gold medal, why make the comment?

Silly comment, bound to be punished. Stupid and outdated attempt at humour.

Not related to this instance but I like Andrew Cotter, the Scottish bloke, as a sports commentator because of his dry humour - but I often think careful now mate someone wont like it and you'll get booted off because nowadays any attempt at humour during serious events will get some people complaining.

I was hoping this was another RDZ thread

People are too sensitive these days.. What’s wrong with a little humour and gentle teasing?
Nb.. remember my favourite radio football commentator Alan Green of Radio 5? He would slip in off the cuff remarks that made one laugh out loud. Definitely not PC but funny and in good part.

Perfidious Albion said:

People are too sensitive these days.. What’s wrong with a little humour and gentle teasing?
Nb.. remember my favourite radio football commentator Alan Green of Radio 5? He would slip in off the cuff remarks that made one laugh out loud. Definitely not PC but funny and in good part.

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Greeny would neve have made a comment like that. (He was my favourite commentator, by far, by the way).

He commented on the football. His sort of jaw-dropper (the first I recall was during a commentary; Everton or West Ham) would be something like 'Good grief, this is dull'. He said football like it is. I don't recall him making snide remarks about non-football issues.

(Having looked him up I find this: In 2004, Green was censured by Ofcom after he made a comment live on-air about Manchester United's Cameroonian midfielder Eric Djemba-Djemba speaking pidgin English with the referee. Green said that Djemba-Djemba was saying "me no cheat" to the referee. A listener complained that it was inappropriate to suggest a black man was unable to speak grammatical English.[19][20] Green had previously described Manchester City's Chinese defender Sun Jihai as wearing shirt "Number 17 – that'll be the Chicken Chow Mein, then" during a live radio broadcast; so perhaps you're right; that said, what was OK in 2004 will not be OK today).

Everyone can see this Australian was just trying to make your chauvinist element in Australia (apparently they have one) snigger.

And as I said earlier this isn't about people being sensitive. And it isn't about 'woke' or 'PC gone mad'. This is about conservative corporate middle management being risk-averse and 'mindful' of the 'reputation' of the business. What evs.