mashed in maryland 11:30 Sat Nov 28
BBC football pundit suspended for referring to players' scuffle as 'handbags'
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Steve “Tommo” Thompson has been suspended by the BBC from his punditry duties after referring to a scuffle between two players as “handbags”.
The 65-year-old, who works as a freelancer, has been laid off for the rest of the year after complaints from listeners about the outdated phrase.
Thompson made the comment on BBC Radio Lincolnshire during Lincoln City’s 1-0 win at Swindon Town on Tuesday in the Sky Bet League One.
Explaining their decision, the BBC said the phrase "handbags" was not in line with their standards
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/bbc-football-pundit-steve-thompson-23082063
Hahahahaha
String him up, I say
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BRANDED
11:34 Sat Nov 28
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Gay would have been better.
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Coffee
11:35 Sat Nov 28
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String huim up, indeed. I can't believe that anyone has seriously complained about this.
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Iron Duke
11:36 Sat Nov 28
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For fuck sake. Who are these people who complain about these things?
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Sven Roeder
11:44 Sat Nov 28
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Would be interesting to see who and how many complained about this.
Imagine its one complaint by a woman
The BBC make themselves look ridiculous with this sort of stuff and undermine real complaints
ps Who is Steve (Stevo) (Tommo) Thompson?
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ChillTheKeel
11:45 Sat Nov 28
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Who are these people funding that despicable corporation?
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Sven Roeder
11:48 Sat Nov 28
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People with tv's?
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ChillTheKeel
11:50 Sat Nov 28
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I've got a TV
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Coffee
11:54 Sat Nov 28
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Sven Roeder 11:44 Sat Nov 28
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CR
11:55 Sat Nov 28
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I really object to paying my license fee now. I don’t think they are speaking for me any more.
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Westham67
11:58 Sat Nov 28
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Shit bags would have been less offensive to those offended by something that may have offended handbag users ??????
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Sven Roeder
12:02 Sat Nov 28
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You paying a licence fee for that tv , Chill?
IF YOU DONT MIND ME ASKING
The tv licence fee is past its sell by date in my opinion.
A slimmed down focused BBC funded out of general taxation is still a good thing in my book. But they greatly need to lift their game.
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mashed in maryland
12:02 Sat Nov 28
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Coffee 11:35 Sat Nov 28
It used to be the case that the people who would find something like this offensive wouldn't watch football.
It used to wind me up a bit that they started encroaching into our sport to impose their will regarding what is and is not allowed onto us, but now i just find it funny.
Football is MORIBUND (copyright Leonard Hatred)
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mashed in maryland
12:05 Sat Nov 28
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Sven Roeder 12:02 Sat Nov 28
Its state supported extortion and anyone who pays it doesn't have to.
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,
12:07 Sat Nov 28
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I’d like to know who these complaining listeners are and how many actually made contact.
Anyway if the term is outdated could it be replaced with “man bags”?
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Sven Roeder
12:09 Sat Nov 28
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Its an outdated system which offends some
Part of the reason I think it should be financed out of general taxation.
I think people accept there are things financed that way that some individually wouldn't pay for themselves given a choice.
Like the Royal Family
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goose
12:10 Sat Nov 28
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I’m gonna start compiling a list of words that are derogatory to men.
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Nurse Ratched
12:10 Sat Nov 28
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I wouldn't mind betting the complainer(s) comes from within the BBC staff.
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PwoperNaughtyButNot
12:11 Sat Nov 28
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This suggests that the BBC see this as sexist
Which suggests that BBC believe that women only fight in a silly way with handbags which is sexist.
Which suggests the BBC don’t believe men can own handbags ..... which is sexist
Perhaps handbags at dawn has been a saying used by both men and women for decades to describe silly fights?
Or was this all actually to protect the players feelings as they truly believed in their fight and therefore it shouldn’t be belittled.
I’m lost
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,
12:14 Sat Nov 28
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Don’t forget either that this broadcast could not have attracted many listeners in Lincolnshire, a niche market of folk who live in the land of wolds or dykes.
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Mike Oxsaw
12:16 Sat Nov 28
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Language is used to communicate ideas.
In this case, it was a term long in use within it's intended audience to give an idea (to them) what was going on.
I hear that term, given that I've lived with it for so many years, I don't need a photo or a video of the incident - I have all the information I need to generate an image in my own mind. I don't need to "see" the players faces, I don't need to see the arms flailing, I don't even need to know what colour shits the players were wearing.
"Handbags" describes perfectly a frequent event in a football match. It should be mandatory to describe at least one such incident in that manner in every game.
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