Comments by the Sunderland manager to Vicki Sparks of the BBC highlights that there still resides an attitude of contempt for women in football under the shiny new politically correct facade, despite claims to the contrary
David Moyes hardly covered himself in glory in the aftermath of his side’s goalless home draw with Burnley last month. No sooner had Sunderland’s manager told the BBC’s Vicki Sparks that she might be in peril of “a slap” than he was informing journalists that he had dropped Didier Ndong, his Gabon midfielder and the club’s record £13.5m signing, because he wanted more “Britishness” in midfield.
Fifty is supposed to be the “new 30” but the 53-year-old appeared a dinosaur, seemingly stuck in the 1950s and thoroughly out of step with the 21st-century world.
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