Quite frankly I couldn't not give a toss for the comments made about female referees or the antics since then. Both of them have landed on their feet by moving to Aljezeera just in time, to get their feet under the table, to do their swan song which will be the World Cup. They might just have been going there anyway, but who knows. But they will have a very nice pension fund stacking up for them.
However I do find it particularly funny that everybody just loves to give them an extra kick when they are down!! They are all coming out of the woodwork to dish the dirt, particularly on Gray, about his past sexual exploits and making a nice little earner from it all too.
What about the woman who was the butt of their humour in the first place? This lady has studied long and hard to learn the rules of a game, which are forever changing, has passed exams, spent her spare time and money, working her way up the ladder, in order, to get to the position of assistant referee on the TV for an unimportant game.She has, no doubt, travelled the length and breadth of the country plying her trade and learning her craft and changing in the back of a car. She would have been an official at amateur games and lower league games all over the country for peanuts. So she could just about see the peak of the mountain that she has climbed and then suddenly, through no fault of her own, an accident of birth, her career is ruined by two misogynists having a laugh at her expense!!
They move on after some much needed publicity, they spelt their names properly didn't they, to lift their flagging careers. Everything turned out very nicely as they have now moved 'off shore' and she has had her small dream completely shattered. To rub it in further that she is now finished, she was then replaced in her first game after the debacle. She will never get another tilt at the windmill, as she will be slagged up and down the country as that dame who was put in her place, washing dishes and ironing, by the two professionals. They will retire after the next World Cup rather richer than they are already now. She will return to obscurity officiating at schoolboy finals, if she bothers to pick up her whistle again. What's her name, again ??
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