A woman's place?
- 25 Apr 07, 10:17 AM
Anyone who picks up a microphone and commentates on a football match instantly opens themselves up to criticism and public scrutiny. It goes with the territory. However, I don't think any commentator in the history of Match of the Day has been exposed to the sort of pressure that accompanied Jacqui Oatley onto the gantry at Craven Cottage on Saturday.
It wasn't supposed to be like that. We issue a monthly rota sending 10 commentators to games most weekends. As well as our regular names, we quite often borrow a commentator or two from our colleagues at Five Live for a guest appearance. John Murray or Conor McNamara, to name but two. On this occasion, the radio commentator in question happened to be a woman, and someone somewhere decided, rather unhelpfully, that the newspapers should know about it.
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