Peter wrote:alwaysright wrote:Hm wasnt suprising that Big Ron got the sack really
Got him a bit more than the sack.
Well, it DESERVED to get him the sack, it was an appalling thing to say, and even more so, to be caught saying it.
Peter wrote:It's followed him everywhere, and made his life pretty much hell.
Agree entirely. People have forgotten that Ron Atkinson did more to promote black footballers than any other white man in English football. For our younger viewers, in the late 1970's WBA were a good team, who became the first in the top flight of English football to play three black players at the same time. This at a time when black footballers regularly had bananas thrown at them and 'monkey chants' whenever they touched the ball. Dreadfully, within the last thirty years, this was considered "acceptable behaviour" from "
football fans", such racists wouldn't even be thrown out of the game.
Peter wrote:He made a mistake,
Yup, and he rightly lost his job... He's not the sort of person I'd want to invite to dinner but he didn't deserve what happened to him after that. Still, I'm sure he's got enough cash to keep him happy in bling.
Peter wrote:and no worse than the unelected ex-Prime Minister did really.
An unelected ex-Prime Minister??? REALLY??? Or are you making that bit up?
I'm guessing you aren't referring to The Duke of Wellington, who wasn't elected but still became 'prime-minister'? Gordon Brown of course, was an elected MP and was then '
selected' by his party to lead it and therefore became Prime Minister. As you lot over there don't have a 'Presidential' election, you don't actually 'elect'
any Prime Minister
(but I'm sure you knew that anyway!)