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Female linesman.
AG: Why is there a female linesman?
After all, this increased activity in female worship follows hard upon the broadcaster's recent complications with its leading football presenters and certain aspersions cast on the professional abilities of a female linesman.
Keys and Gray were the face of Sky's football coverage for 20 years, during a period when the pay TV giant became the dominant force in sports broadcasting but their Sky careers came to an abrupt end when a tape of them discussing female linesman Sian Massey was leaked to a newspaper and they were suspended.
Burton said "apparently, a female lino today, bit of a looker", with Gray responding: "A female linesman?" "He [a Sky Sports crew member] says she [Massey] is all right," Burton continued, "now I don't know if I should trust his judgement on that?" Gray then said: "No, I wouldn't.
Then, he was at the centre of a media maelstrom that spiralled from off-colour, off-camera comments about a female linesman into a furious row about sexism in sport that ended in the departure of the broadcaster's two biggest names.
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They had Javier Mascherano sent off for shouting "your mother's shell" at the linesman – "shell" being Argentinian slang for a particular female body part.
Sent off for shouting "your mother's shell," at the linesman – "shell" being Argentinian slang for a particular female body part – Barcelona sought to get him off by arguing that what he'd actually said was "your sister's shell".
The linesman said so.
Different linesman stays down.
Everton turned to the linesman.
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