Very often, the sports' news on BBC television is presented by a woman; why, is a mystery.
It seems that BBC news has now devolved almost all of its sports reporting to women regardless of their knowledge of the games they're reporting on or their relevance to them. This is a clear example of BBC political correctness gone mad.
I have no problem with women reporting on female sports, unisex sports or indeed any sport if they are knowledgeable and relevant. However, top class football is an almost entirely male preserve, so why do we have a woman reporting the results when she clearly knows nothing about them ? In fact, the longest item in the bulletin was something to do with Beckham, who no longer plays, and a few of his mates who are similarly unemployed; what has this to do with sports' news ?
Sue Barker was a fine tennis player and is a good presenter for tennis, as is Sue Smith; Hazel Irvine is similarly well placed having been an international player and so are the likes of Denise Lewis in athletics and others in golf, cycling, rowing and gymnastics, but why do we have irrelevant and unnecessary women commentating or reporting on male rugby, football or cricket matches ? They don't belong there; it's a ridiculous sop to political correctness.
Why do we have to have female nonentities in the studio reading out reams of prepared scripts of which they have no understanding ? It's time that the BBC, and the rest, dispensed with 'PC' and returned to employing knowledgeable people to report on sports, just as they do with every other subject. Gender has nothing to do with it and a misguided attempt to introduce an utterly specious gender balance is farcical.
It's time for men to reassert themselves.
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