The joshing, the slap-joke, the fallout: the Great Moyes Debate has begun | Marina Hyde


If David Moyes makes a habit of such joke-threats, can the men on the receiving end of them please step forward and speak out. Don’t all rush at once …

Couldn’t this whole silly misunderstanding with David Moyes be cleared up if all the male reporters he’d threatened joshingly to slap came forward to contextualise the experience? I mean, honestly. HONESTLY. How are we possibly to make a judgment about the incident’s acceptability or otherwise with a sample size of one? To be more specific: one woman.

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