Pardew causes a stir after "Rape" comment on MOTD2

[captainfog]

Foggy's the black one.

and Hollowman is the woman

[Neil Young]

Foggy's the black one.

We're on next Thursday.

[Hollowman]

and Hollowman is the woman

Don't call me Shirley.

[DannyMan2006]

Rape has many different meanings tho, it is not just used with regards to sexual misdemeanour

verb (used with object)
6. to force to have sexual intercourse.
7. to plunder (a place); despoil.
8. to seize, take, or carry off by force.

So Pardew was legitimately using the word, not a problem.

Exactly

But what I am really reffering too when I put in this thread were the comments such as these:

Alka Searle, acting chairwoman for SEVANA rape charity in North Staffordshire, said she is 'absolutely appalled' by his comments.

She said: 'This man needs to understand that rape is a horrific crime and not a word to be taken lightly.'He is sending out the message that rape is a very trifling crime which doesn't mean anything and this is definitely not the case.'I am absolutely appalled the word has been used so lightly and I think it is very inappropriate.'

Michele Campbell, who works for Rape Crisis in Nottingham, added:

'To compare rape to a tackle on a sports field marginalises the ordeal women suffer.'It's really tactless for anyone to use rape in that particular context but especially for someone who is well-known and speaking to a massive audience.'This man should know better because he has a responsibility to his viewers, in which he has totally failed.'

Now I am sure Alan Pardew did not mean for anyone to take the word the way they did. I am 100% certain he is not intending rape to appear as a trifling crime. So why the over the top comments.

I think despite the double meaning of the word we can all agree it was a silly thing to say. But that is all.To come out with the above comments is sheer foolishness. Fair enough he should say sorry, but only in a manner of "I'm sorry what I said offended anyone. It was taken out of context and I did not mean to offend anyone" etc.

[Scratch]

I think despite the double meaning of the word we can all agree it was a silly thing to say. But that is all.To come out with the above comments is sheer foolishness. Fair enough he should say sorry, but only in a manner of "I'm sorry what I said offended anyone. It was taken out of context and I did not mean to offend anyone" etc.

Possibly a silly thing to say yes, but in the context of the sentence that he used it, absolutely nothing wrong with it. I was watching the program, and it didn't even register on me.

However, now that the tabloids have got a hold of it, it will run and run and Pardew will be tainted for life.

[DannyMan2006]

Possibly a silly thing to say yes, but in the context of the sentence that he used it, absolutely nothing wrong with it. I was watching the program, and it didn't even register on me.

However, now that the tabloids have got a hold of it, it will run and run and Pardew will be tainted for life.

Which is why I found the article so ridiculous. Too PC as Paul.S pointed out. He meant no harm. I fail to see the need for mindless comments to be criticised so heavily. It wasn't a planned script or an intention to be funny. It was an off the cuff remark in which everyone understood it as the way it was intended. Yet people still complain.

[Craig_H]

I knew my ears werent deceiving me!

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/article5920061.ece

[Leyton388]

What a idiot!

[Craig_H]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJiehceTvRs&eurl=http://www.simplyfm.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=18385&st=325

[MrsB]

BBC apologises for Alan Pardew's 'rape' gaffe

Times Online, 16 March 2009



The BBC has apologised after one of its football pundits compared a tackle by a Chelsea player to rape.

Alan Pardew, the former Charlton Athletic, West Ham United and Reading manager, was describing a challenge by Michael Essien, the Chelsea midfield player, during Match Of The Day 2 on Sunday night.

After the Ghana international clattered into Ched Evans, the Manchester City forward, Pardew said: "He's a strong boy. He knocks him off - he absolutely rapes him."

No apology was made during or after the programme, but the BBC issued a statement today which said: "Alan Pardew apologises unconditionally for any offence caused by remarks he made in the Match of the Day 2 programme last night."

A total of 35 complaints have been received about the incident, the spokeswoman added. Pardew is not one of the show's regular analysts, but is used from time to time. The BBC said no decision had been made about whether he would be invited back on the programme after last night's incident. Pardew lost his job as the Charlton manager last November.

[Craig_H]

Oh my god, this is in the Library? Christ.

[rudedog]

Poor Pardew - he was playing for Palace when we thumped them 9-0, keeps getting sacked as a football manager and now this. It seems he can't do anything right.

[MrsB]

Oh my god, this is in the Library? Christ.

Yeah, I only just discovered it there myself. I'm moving it to General Football.

[Red_Polo]

"raped" - in "footballing terms" ????????????

Not having that mate.

Although.....people use 'murdered' in a footballing context all the time, me included....

Exactly what I thought when I first read this. Rape is obviously a horrendous crime, but it's not like murder is especially pleasant either and we don't seem to have a problem using that in more trivial everyday parlance. Ditto torture. Not sure what to think about this really, but I don't think people ought to be outraged.

The BBC has apologised after one of its football pundits compared a tackle by a Chelsea player to rape.

Ah yes, because he's obviously making a serious comparison of rape and a football tackle. It couldn't be hyperbole, no chance! People could argue it's tasteless and it's pretty obviously an inadvisable turn of phrase, but that wouldn't be quite so newsworthy I suppose.

[Joe King]

If only Pardew had been talking about Ronaldo doing some skills

But I agree, he shouldn't have said it. He shouldn't be on tv. Like Neil Warnock.