Kevin Keegan courts controversy with sexist comments
Except for the well-known rant again in 1996 when Newcastle supervisor, Kevin Keegan, ranted at Sir Alex Ferguson, he not often courted controversy, however all that might be about to alter after feedback he made at a perform got here into the media area. Keegan, who loved a stellar enjoying profession for membership and nation and in addition famously went on to handle England, has handed judgment on what he calls “girl footballers” with language that might be thought-about demeaning and sexist. It may additionally land him in scorching water and fairly probably derail his after dinner talking profession. “I don’t wish to hearken to women speaking concerning the England males’s group on the match as a result of I don’t assume it’s the identical expertise. I’ve an issue with that,” he’s reported as saying at An Night With Kevin Keegan OBE, a public occasion in Bristol, by The Times (subscription required). “[…] If I see an England girl footballer saying about England towards Scotland at Wembley and she or he’s saying, ‘If I’d have been in that place I’d have carried out this,’ I don’t assume it’s fairly the identical. I don’t assume it…