Andy Gray Sacked After Sexist Remarks



Sky Sports presenter Andy Gray has been sacked after he made sexist remarks about a female match official - and new evidence of "unacceptable behaviour" emerged.

Andy Gray was initially disciplined over off-air comments about assistant referee Sian Massey before Saturday's Premier League match between Wolverhampton and Liverpool.

But now Sky Sports have issued a statement saying Gray's contract had been terminated.

It continued: "The decision, which is effective immediately, was made in response to new evidence of unacceptable and offensive behaviour.

"The new evidence, relating to an off-air incident that took place in December 2010, came to light after Andy Gray had already been subjected to disciplinary action for his comments of January 22, 2011.

The off-air incident involved video footage showing Gray asking a female co-presenter to tuck in his shirt.

Barney Francis, managing director of Sky Sports, commented: "Andy Gray's contract has been terminated for unacceptable behaviour.

"After issuing a warning yesterday, we have no hesitation in taking this action after becoming aware of new information today."

In the wake of the sacking, Ms Massey announced she has withdrawn from tonight's League Two match between Crewe and Bradford.

Gray and his colleague Richard Keys originally came under fire after footage of them talking about the official was leaked to a Sunday newspaper.

The men were filmed agreeing women "probably don't know the offside rule".

Sky Sports reporter Andy Burton has also been taken off the air for his involvement in the exchange.

why still got option for no?

its for me to vote
gonna vote it after this post.

felt that the sacked was a bit too harsh.
thats just me though.

sexist remarks = sacked ?

its for me to vote
gonna vote it after this post.

felt that the sacked was a bit too harsh.
thats just me though.

sexist remarks = sacked ?

this is not his first time though. Been given warning and he repeated again. So if your employee did some racist remark on someone else and you given him a warning but he continued doing it. What are you going to do? Keep him in your company or sack him?

the warning for the assistant referee was acceptable but if you watch the video i posted, how was that a sacked ? did they really sacked him for saying "tuck in my shirt" ? or even if it was meant in a dirty way, im sure he was just playing around, no ?

obviously he wasnt sacked just because that solitary incident, he was sacked because he is and always has been a sexist and was caught on video or taped a few times already(leaving out him being an awful pundit, arrogant and biased, all which you can regard as irrelevant)..plus that is just 1 of a few videos of him making sexist remarks...and in that video, he was discriminating against her, not offensive? and how is that a joke?

dont be fooled by his commentary, he's not really that good of a person

ok, maybe ive been following too little about him outside his commentary but to know what you said about him are true, then im all hands up to say he deserved it. but no doubt, his my best footie ommentary for sky.