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Rodney Marsh
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I think what he said was along the lines of ...David Beckham will not be joining Newcastle because he heard about the terrible Toon Army in Asia... It was on the bbc news website earlier, but they appear to have removed the exact quote.
He was stupid to say it, but I'm not convinced it warranted a sacking. If Sky did this everytime one of their pundits said something stupid or offensive, then Jeff Stelling would probably be on his own every Saturday. There is no comparison with Ron Atkinson or Prince Harry in my opinion, though it's a pity we couldn't sack him too!
'' If the tsunami had destroyed an uninhabited island, would you have found it funny?''
But thats the point it didnt and we are talking about a disaster that happened just a few weeks ago so to make a football joke based on that tsunami is crude and insensitive to say the least, which marsh has always been, i never saw the programme but am told that the presenter knew instantly the blunder and apologised straight away .
I'm not saying that i want him banned from tv for life or anything that would be unfair, maybe a suspension would be right, but i can understand fully skys reaction, it maybe did not cause offence to a lot of us but think what the many british friends and relatives of the dead and injured would have thought