Why rodney marsh was sacked

I am just making a truthful observation. Daniels only scored twice for City. The glory days were ending, the wilderness years coming.

Things came to a head for Marsh in , a week after he scored his final City goal. Everyone pulled him away. News of the bust-up spread as far as the chairman. Swales called Marsh down to Maine Road on the Monday to ask him his take on events. All of which felt reasonable, but Swales told him it was only his side of the story. The chairman, who had made his money selling black-and-white televisions, then broadened the discussion.

Then he could have extended his time at City by taking the diplomatic route. It was a comment with consequences. Peter Swales has just told me this, I am putting you on the transfer list, I am sacking you, you are free to go'.

He left Manchester for Florida. The best part of 50 years later, Marsh has no regrets. So often in life when you tell the truth, you are the one that suffers and that is what I did.

And so ended a City career unlike any other, before or since. Gray had also made sexist off-air remarks about assistant referee Sian Massey. Keys was also implicated in what he admitted to be "prehistoric banter" and subsequently resigned.

Former Everton, Manchester City and Bradford City winger Peter Beagrie was sacked from his job as a Sky Sports pundit last year after being convicted of an assault on his partner and sentenced to a month community order.

Sky suspended Beagrie when they became aware of the case and fired him when a judgment was reached. Regular Soccer Saturday pundit Rodney Marsh was sacked by Sky in for a tasteless joke in the wake of the Asia tsunami disaster.

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So, first Ron, then Rod. Ron Atkinson, that is. He was sacked by ITV and by the Guardian. Last week, during an after-dinner speech at a Sheffield Wednesday function, Atkinson gave another insight into his thinking on racial matters: "I can't understand why there is such a population problem in China because they have the best contraception going - Chinese women are the ugliest in the world. Atkinson was simply astounded when he was told that he was in trouble again.

I can't say anything now. I've been ultra-careful about everything. In short, the football old school is struggling to keep up. In their members' views it's all just innocent dressing room "banter".

And, as Ron has insisted ever since he gave his expert opinion on Desailly's performance, some of their best friends are black. Ron even revealed that his "vicar was a black guy".

The presenter that day, Jeff Stelling, put his head in his hands. McLintock giggled, but didn't quite understand the fuss. BBC commentators, too, have got themselves in trouble in recent years. Last October the BBC apologised for a remark made by radio commentator Alan Green, when he used "pidgin" English to imitate Manchester United's Cameroon international Eric Djemba Djemba "me no cheat" , while John Motson was criticised for saying he found it difficult to tell one black footballer from another during games.