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Anyone remember Mike Newell on lineswoman Amy Raynor, November 2006?
"It is bad enough with the incapable referees and linesmen we have but if you start bringing in women, you have big problems. Amy Raynor should not be here. I know that sounds sexist, but I am sexist.
"This is Championship football. This is not park football, so what are women doing here? It is tokenism, for the politically-correct idiots.
"She should not be here. I know that sounds sexist but I am sexist, so I am not going to be anything other than that."
I was in the room at the time for that one, fairly memorable. If you were giving him any 'credit', at least he revealed the depth of sexism for all to see rather than just kept behind closed doors. He also all but accused his then-chairman of being a crook/negligent in the same rant. So it cost him a fine from the FA - and then his job. Well done, sir.
It wasn't Championship football for long, at least not for Luton.