In fairness she never misses a Limerick game, hurling or football
Her brother played football for Limerick and is a doctor for the Irish Olympic team.
She’s actually genuinely interested in sports, does triathlons etc
Souness deliberately set out to undermine and humiliate a female pundit in public, merely because she is a woman.
He knew exactly what he was doing.
As has been said, there is a pattern to Souness’s targets - black players (Pogba, Martial, Wan-Bissaka, Mings) and now a woman (Karen Carney). People not like him, in other words.
I thought this from the Manchester United v Manchester City game last November was quite the giveaway as to his attitude. Keane got in on the casual racism act as well.
Shite like this should be called out for what it is and if the likes of you get offended at that, well, tough shit.
There should be no such thing as winning or losing either. Only encourages elitism and a higher bar in terms of standards. Everyone should get participation certs instead.
Look, you deliberately ignored my question in relation to the player of the match stuff from RTE. A corporation who have shown their real care and worth to the country of Ireland over the last two years.
I honestly couldn’t care less but the consistent cloak and dagger nature of that organisation along with the virtue signallers like yourself who are so fucking tolerant of everything except an opposing view to the narrative is unbelievable.
Your tribe of people cannot listen to anything but your own views.
I haven’t a barney what you’re on about with that screed of unintelligible gibberish.
Your ilk have refused point blank to listen to the views of people who rightly think it’s unacceptable for an established male pundit to try and undermine and humiliate a female pundit for no other reason than she is a woman - which is what happened.
No idea who wrote that article but the writer either deliberately misses the point or is not intelligent enough to get the point.
None of this is about removing words from use. It’s not about that at all and the pretence that it is only serves to undermine the “arguments” of those defending Souness on this.
The point is that Souness repeatedly used particular words in a particular tone to deliberately undermine and humiliate a female colleague for no other reason than she is a woman. He didn’t go after anything Carney actually said. He tried to undermine her because she is a woman. That’s bullying. It was deliberately creatively veiled for plausible deniability, but still blatant, and the essential aim of it was little different to what Richard Keys said about Sian Massey.
Souness is a smart man and understands context and tone and how they shape the meaning of things that are said. He also has a very big ego, and an entitlement complex and likes to be in charge. To be in charge requires building a comfort zone around you where those who make you uncomfortable do not enter. Souness’s comfort zone is the boys’ club. Carney disturbed his comfort zone and Souness didn’t like it one little bit.