There is a witch hunt going on at Sky TV. Someone there has something against Andy Gray and Richard Keys and has found
a way and a momentum to get them out.
That is not to say that this is not the fault of Gray and Keys. The views they hold are unsavoury to say the very least, and Gray's behaviour in the video leaked earlier today of him asking a female (blonde, young and attractive) colleague to tuck his microphone pack into his trousers reeks of dirty old man and Gray has quite rightly been removed from that position.
New video has come to light tonight where Richard Keys can be seen discussing an ex girlfriend of Jamie Redknapp. Keys asks Redknapp if he 'smashed it' and then goes on to suggest that Redknapp spent a lot of time 'hanging out the back of her'. Unlike Keys' previous comments about Sian Massey, these comments do not question the professional integrity of this lady, but it's still fairly coarse language to be used when even the smallest possibility of being filmed exists.
My main problem with this whole situation is did Keys and Gray not consider for one moment that these conversations could be recorded. I will happily admit that I have also asked my friends if they 'smashed' someone, or discussed them 'hanging out the back' of a particular girl, but we have not done it in a tv studio with microphones strapped to us.
I cannot see how Keys can stay on. He has done something that millions of men in the UK would do and have done. This does not in any way make it right, but views like this and language such as this are common place in society. Richard Keys was just incredibly naive in thinking that those views that he was more than willing to share with work colleagues would never get broadcast publicly.
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