Leicester Tigers Vs Bristol Bears - Is Wokism Creeping In?

Deskdiary | 18:32 Mon 23rd Dec 2024 | Sport

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I'm watching the Tigers v Bears match (utterly fantastic game) and toward the end Nick Mullins has passed to a co-commentator to choose the best player, and he said (paraphrasing) "the man of the match, sorry, I meant the player of the match is van Rensburg".

Unless van Rensburg is identifying as something other than a man, why would the co-commentator need to 'correct' himself from man of the match to player of the match?

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albaqwerty

I presume co-commentator is protecting any future employment by showing off his diversity skills.

This wokeism, transvestite nonsense is continuing to be ridiculous.

Old_Geezer

In any case, any UK team calling themselves after an animal seem to be playing on the wrong side of the Pond. That's an embarrassment before any woke commentator starts layering on further embarrassment.

ToraToraTora

it's the woke mind virus.

Deskdiary

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7.49pm - what on earth are you wittering on about?

newmodarmy

OG's post seemed clear to me. He isn't disagreeing with you.

ToraToraTora

OG a lot of rugby teams have that and they were named long before the US started doing it. Eg Leicester Tigers were formed in 1880.

Deskdiary

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8.43 - not really. Leicester have been called the Tigers even before American football started.

Old_Geezer

It's clearly an American practice as the UK tends to have more sense. If there are a few teams that started it early here, all the more embarrassing for them. None local to me indulged when I was young.

ToraToraTora

22:18 like most american practices it was originally a British practice. eg thanks giving, Halloween etc all originally British.

ToraToraTora

22:18 Derby = The rams, Hull = The tigers, Millwall = Lions etc sorry me old china you are miles off.

mushroom25

// you are miles off //

not entirely. Bradford Bulls were so named in 1995; quite what was wrong with their incarnation as "Bradford Northern" was never explained. I suppose we should be grateful Wakefield Trinity never gave themselves an alliterative description.......

newmodarmy

But those are just nicknames TTT, like the Rams, the Toffees, Red Devils, Saints, etc The only example of a team name is rugby's British Lions.