Anyone else think the lineswoman's call was just a lucky guess?

That shows how stupid Collymore is then. Mind you, he's not beyond even a bit of woman-slapping is he? So that's no wonder

Selection as part of a team sport like soccer is, always has been and always will be subjective and providing there's no obvious gender discrimination, as "well you're good love but you're a bird", then any action would probably fail.

Individual performances are more able to be measured objectively, so sports like golf or horse racing would be on a sticky wicket

Thats the thing. If you remove sex as a barrier to sport once, you have to do it twice. It would kill the female version of the game. They can't have it both ways.

There will eventually as you mention be a freak female footballer who could easily play professionally in the man's game and deserve it. Like you say, what happens then? I can imagine the world falling off it's axis.

No

Imagine if such a thing happened in athletics, say.

It'll be interesting to see what Sky do. Rodney Marsh was sacked by them for making a tasteless joke about Newcastle United and the tsunami, rather than slagging off a match official.

I suspect that there will be some double standards, Keys and Gray will apologise on air and in person, and they will be able to carry on farting around with squares of astroturf, shouting MNF and fiddling with a glorified air hockey table.

Chelsea seem to be cruising against Bolton, seems they're out of that bad spell of form and could put alot of good performances and posistive results behind them now.

Are you being deliberately thick or have you some sort of perverted stereotype you feel needs promoting?

Either way, you are a very stupid and shallow boy. Go to bed

Lighten up you old fart.

You're probably right, which is all the more reason why they should never be seen and heard on television again. That pair have been stealing a living for many years, especially Keys, who has never contributed anything useful to the game as far as I am aware.

Imagine if the assistant with the flag had been an Asian man and they'd come out with a load of crap about Asians not understanding football, should stick to cricket or hockey etc.? They'd already be out of a job by now, and I don't really see any difference with slagging off Sian Massey. She must be bloody good to get on the Premiership list at the age of 25. She will have refereed semi-pro non-league matches for several seasons, been marked by club officials at every match, been assessed regularly by retired former top level referees, and will have achieved significantly higher marks and assessments than her peers at each level as she makes her way up the ladder, as well as running the line at Football League level; she hasn't just been thrown into the Premiership at random because someone thinks we should have a few female officals.

Most of all it was the sheer arrogance and lack of humour in Keys' voice that sickened me. He's always irritated me and I regard him as pretty much unemployable after that. What a creep.

His daughter's fit though

Never seen this Brady woman til this morning, she's quite fit actually. Hope that's acceptable to say