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Hodgson: racist or man with taste for decades-old jokes?


Half-time jibber-jabber  

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  1. 1. Was Roy Hodgson's half-time team talk:

    • racist?
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    • possibly a little bit retro for your modern-day footballer?
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Roy has the most scrutinised job in English football and it's the media's job to bull:censored: at every point.

 

Just something that could've been well avoided.

 

Only in hindsight.

 

I think Roy has every right to expect people in the media not to act like petulant 12 year olds over something that is clearly innocuous. It is not his job to second guess his well intentioned team talks to such a degree.

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The good thing to come out of this non story has been the fact it has taken away the focus on England qualifying for the World Cup and playing very well in both qualifiers and Townsend himself being outstanding in both games.

 

If it wasn't for this we would now be bigging Townsend up to be the saviour of English football which of course would be unfair so every cloud and all that.

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That miserable fart is paid enough and is old enough to know he shouldn't even go near that area.

It'd have been dodgier if he'd resisted telling the :censored: joke halfway through on the basis he thought it might offend the black players. It could be argued that anyone who interpreted it to have a racial element is at fault whereas Hodgson didn't even consider that.

 

I just can't see how having a pop is productive for anyone, especially anti-racism groups.

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