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Meire on the BBC

mogodon
mogodon Posts: 3,408
in General Charlton
Squirrel Face interviewed on BBC Radio 4's Today about the need for more women on the FA. Self publicising as ever, given quite an easy time. Will be on the iplayer when the show ends. It came on about 8.30am (two and half hours into the programme)
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  • J BLOCK
    J BLOCK Posts: 8,320
    Couldn't think of anything worse than listening to that
  • No.1 in South London
    No.1 in South London Posts: 3,964
    Did she mention anything about leaving competent women to run our own player of the year event?

    The woman needs muting.........
  • palarsehater
    palarsehater Posts: 12,300
    edited March 2017
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  • Weegie Addick
    Weegie Addick Posts: 16,547
    So have Pitch let her remove her gag?
  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,040
    edited March 2017
    She came across ok I thought. But yes it was a gentle interview.
    Most interesting to me was when asked about abuse, particularly sexist abuse, she said some abuse references her sex unnecessarily.
    So the message should be for those who do use sexist terms against her don't, because to outsiders it really diminishes our cause.
    She does giggle a lot.
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,201
    International Women's Day dontcha know.

  • mogodon
    mogodon Posts: 3,408
    Weegie Addick said:

    So have Pitch let her remove her gag?

    Only when she can 1) publicise herself 2) it's an utterly safe environment.
  • mogodon
    mogodon Posts: 3,408
    As the interview was at 8.30 either it was pre-recorded or she spoke from her bed so she could get straight back to sleep. Far too early for her otherwise.
  • mistrollingin
    mistrollingin Posts: 3,868
    How many porkies did she tell?
  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,474
    She will always play the gender card. At least she's proved women can be every bit as incompetent and divisive as men - she's ideal for the FA.

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  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,128
    mistrollingin said:

    How many porkies did she tell?

    The first one would have been when she said that she was a CEO of Charlton Athletic Football Club.
  • N01R4M
    N01R4M Posts: 2,577
    edited March 2017
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08gwfqp go to 2:29:30

    At the moment, cuts off before end of interview - maybe try again later in the day?
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,597
    I know this might be taking the thread away from its original subject yet even if she was the best CEO in the World why are we asking a Belgian to sit on the English FA Board?

    Probably opening a can of worms here but what if she's asked to go up against the Belgian FA over something, how can you ensure she's going to back the people she works for and not her country of birth?
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,861
    I was screaming and swearing at the radio as I was driving to the office this morning. God only knows what other road users would have thought.
  • carly burn
    carly burn Posts: 19,482
    Nothing new there then.
  • carly burn
    carly burn Posts: 19,482
    carly burn said:

    Nothing new there then.

    Apologies. Thought that said Merde
  • mogodon
    mogodon Posts: 3,408
    Little of substance. "When things are difficult you learn the most. Charlton are a club that should be in the Championship." She must have learnt a hell of a lot in the last three years then.
  • eaststandmike
    eaststandmike Posts: 14,956
    J BLOCK said:

    Couldn't think of anything worse than listening to that

    I take it you have not listened to a Karl Robinson press conference?
  • CHG
    CHG Posts: 4,529
    Algarveaddick said:

    I have e-mailed Today. I have put a copy on the "Club's proposal for new look player of the year" thread.

    Top man

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  • RodneyCharltonTrotta
    RodneyCharltonTrotta Posts: 14,832
    bobmunro said:

    I was screaming and swearing at the radio as I was driving to the office this morning. God only knows what other road users would have thought.

    "Wish this bus driver would shut up he's scaring the children" probably! ;-)
  • Jodaius
    Jodaius Posts: 562
    I am by NO means her biggest fan (and I still think she should resign), but I actually thought she came across OK this morning.

    I don't think it's fair to say she was playing the 'gender' card (certainly not in respect of her own experience) - it's clearly what the interviewer was looking for but I think she did quite well not to go down that route. She did admit (almost grudgingly it seems) that some of the abuse she received reference her gender, but then what else could she say? She also accepted that others in her position are also subject to the same level of abuse. I certainly don't feel she was playing the victim - I wouldn't be surprised if she's been advised against this.

    The interviewer did press her a little on Charlton's poor performance, but this was never going to be the focus of the interview on International Women's Day on Radio 4.

    The two most interesting points for me were that she has ruled herself out of applying for a role on the FA Board (presumably under advice), and secondly that she believes Charlton should be in the Championship. I think this confirms what we all suspected about the long-term ambition for the club (i.e. that there is none). Not sure whether or not she intended to let this slip?
  • sm
    sm Posts: 2,960
    No.1 in South London said:

    Did she mention anything about leaving competent women to run our own player of the year event?

    The woman needs muting.........

    Let us not forget what happened to Mel Baroni either.
  • N01R4M
    N01R4M Posts: 2,577
    Re the FA board, do we know how the appointments are to be made?

    Perhaps "application" will not be the route, and although she was trying to appear very modest and saying her FA experience was limited, I suspect she expects the 3 women for the board to be appointed from the small cohort of women already at the FA, and that she stands an excellent chance of being one of them if she keeps her nose clean.
  • Phil
    Phil Posts: 613
    She says nothing for months then pops up on national radio for seemingly nothing other than self-promotion. As Martin Samuel wrote less than two months ago " why should she be given the chance to make the big calls for the country, when she's made such a mess of Charlton? ".
  • RedChaser
    RedChaser Posts: 19,887
    N01R4M said:

    Re the FA board, do we know how the appointments are to be made?

    Perhaps "application" will not be the route, and although she was trying to appear very modest and saying her FA experience was limited, I suspect she expects the 3 women for the board to be appointed from the small cohort of women already at the FA, and that she stands an excellent chance of being one of them if she keeps her nose clean.

    Yeh but it's not a normal sized nose :wink: .
  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,258
    Liked the way the presenter went for her over her record with us. It's disappointing for women as a whole and us, that she's one of a few in the game and gets this exposure by default
  • andynelson
    andynelson Posts: 1,951
    If a male CEO ran the club exactly as she has done he would have got far worse abuse.
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,030
    iainment said:

    She came across ok I thought. But yes it was a gentle interview.
    Most interesting to me was when asked about abuse, particularly sexist abuse, she said some abuse references her sex unnecessarily.
    So the message should be for those who do use sexist terms against her don't, because to outsiders it really diminishes our cause.
    She does giggle a lot.

    Indeed. All sounded rather innocuous to me.
  • cherryorchard
    cherryorchard Posts: 1,722
    The same old
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcE-Z5DuAiM


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