Gray & Keys In Sexist Row

[Craig_H]

Talking about Torres now - they have Wilkins on talking about how 'big' the number 9 shirt is at Chelsea

Wikins managed to mention Peter Osgood, who wore it. Keys sheepishly pipes up with "Kerry...?", referring to the mighty Kerry Dixon

[Craig_H]

Update....Wilkins has called Keys 'Keysey'....

[Tee]

Yeah he was.

I had a listen from about an hour ago, and it's just really one dimensional and stale.

The humour of Mike Parry is gone, the entertainment aspect is nowhere. It's just the usual smarmy 'old pals' ****e, Keys referring to every guest as 'buddy' or 'pal' and it's all pretty cringeworthily vomit inducing. Poor.

Wallowing in themselves the ****s.

[RichC]

Talking about Torres now - they have Wilkins on talking about how 'big' the number 9 shirt is at Chelsea

Wikins managed to mention Peter Osgood, who wore it. Keys sheepishly pipes up with "Kerry...?", referring to the mighty Kerry Dixon

I see Torres has given an interview to the S*n about paying Roman back - I expect it includes scoring a few goals, couple of reach arounds and back to the blonde look the cheeky russian is known for having an eye for is what he probably means!

[red g]

Keys has the perfect face for Radio.....but unfortunately he doesnt have any of the other skills required.

[Tee]

Talking about Torres now - they have Wilkins on talking about how 'big' the number 9 shirt is at Chelsea

Wikins managed to mention Peter Osgood, who wore it. Keys sheepishly pipes up with "Kerry...?", referring to the mighty Kerry Dixon

Chelsea TV will probably get Nando to meet the legendary No.9 that is Kerry ****ing Dixon for a special feature.

[Cormack74]

What did Carra say if anyone heard him?

[Craig_H]

Just the usual soundbites really, thinks 4th would be a big task now, disappointed to draw on Saturday, but overall optimistic and would've bitten your hand off if you'd have offered a European place when Kenny had only just come in.

[tsb]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2011/feb/14/richard-keys-andy-gray-talksport

Richard Keys and Andy Gray's TalkSport debut: what did you think?
Former Sky duo Richard Keys and Andy Gray kept it strictly football in their first radio show – but watch out for the tile ads

Andy Gray and Richard Keys ... no offside banter.

The critical moment in Richard Keys and Andy Gray's radio debut came about 45 minutes in, when Keysey – as he will inevitably be styled in his new chummy man's world on TalkSport – brought us the hot news that you could buy a pack of tiles for £14.99. "Get yourself down to Wickes," said Keys, "for ceramic wall tiles at only £14.99 a pack." It was his first live commercial.

A colleague tweeted that the Keys and Gray show would not work unless the two showed some contrition. Having presented on TalkSport, I can confirm that there is nothing quite like a live commercial to instil a feeling of humility, and underline your place in the media world –and, in the case of Keys and Gray, that they have been very naughty boys. Further contrition not necessary. Although I should like to think the commercial department had a word about Keys rather rushing his later live ad for floor tiles (£8.99 a pack, down from £17.99, in case you missed it).

Talksport is a hugely successful radio station; the cash cow in UTV's stable. It has achieved this by using chaps such as Alan Brazil on the breakfast show to flog wall tiles, betting sites, insurance for vans, and all the other stuff it is pointless advertising on those commercial stations playing Michael Buble, Justin Bieber and Bruno Mars all day to to people with no wish of getting involved in grouting.

In this world, Keys and Gray are a superb signing for the station, on name alone. It does not really matter what their show is like. They could broadcast in Swedish, and advertisers wanting to reach a male audience would beat a path to their door.

However, I have to confess I shall miss the pair's predecessor, Mike Parry. Parry's great gift was to be able to spout total bollocks (pardon me, but there really is no other word) with absolute conviction. Among the "ideas" floated on Parry's morning show was the notion that racehorses should be fitted with wing mirrors to avoid collisions, that shops should sell individual shoes for people with one leg, and that someone would one day run the 100 metres in one second.

Compared with that, Keys and Gray's show is pedestrian. It's professional, packed with big names like Ray Wilkins and Will Carling, but frankly humdrum, unless you still have an appetite at 12.45pm on Monday to be discussing Wayne Rooney's goal from Saturday lunchtime.

Conspiracy theorists will have relished the fact that Keys's first two guests – following a Sunday paper story accusing the former Sky man of racism – were Paul "Incey" Ince and Dion Dublin. He made a point of calling each of them "buddy" several times during the conversation. In fact, someone tweeted after the first hour: "Black guests, check. Jewish guest (Avram Grant), check. Next, Germaine Greer discussing 3-5-2."

Afraid not. The sole female voice on the show was newsreader Faye Carruthers. And despite numerous plugs of the phone number, not a single caller was taken on air. Perhaps Keys and Gray were being shielded from pranksters and nay-sayers, who might have diverted attention from those reasonably priced tiles.

It was, I suppose, a fairly assured debut, but you would have to really, really like football to be a regular listener, because that is the sole topic for very long hours. I once got into an argument about TalkSport, parts of which (Hawksbee and Jacobs mostly) I love, with someone who said, "They just dribble on about football all day". And in Keys and Gray they have two consummate dribblers.

[Shaggy]

**** me I'm off out to Wickes right now

[Craig_H]

However, I have to confess I shall miss the pair's predecessor, Mike Parry. Parry's great gift was to be able to spout total bollocks (pardon me, but there really is no other word) with absolute conviction. Among the "ideas" floated on Parry's morning show was the notion that racehorses should be fitted with wing mirrors to avoid collisions, that shops should sell individual shoes for people with one leg, and that someone would one day run the 100 metres in one second.

So true, and Parry was superb. Spouting total bollocks with absolute conviction - such a great description. Highly amusing and entertaining, in a world where Keys and Gray's mundane 'safety net' style seems preferable.

[Gray]

How long are they going to keep the public off air? Bottled it.

[Rafa Justice]

How long are they going to keep the public off air? Bottled it.

Pathetic really, tells you all you need to know about a this pair of cunts. I won't be listening.

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[Craig_H]

What, not even on your HTC Wildfire, with Tapatalk?

[IN_RAFA_WE_TRUST]

Mike Parry will present Radio 5 Live's football phone-in 606 with Robbie Savage this Saturday.

It's less than two weeks since he left rival station talkSPORT, where he hosted programmes for 12 years, most recently the mid-morning show with Mike Graham.

Mike Parry said of his new role on 5 Live: "In broadcasting terms I feel like I've just had a call from the manager of Real Madrid. What an opportunity to rise to the challenge of hosting one of the most famous slots in British broadcasting. It's FA Cup weekend and I can't wait to meet the 606 listeners for the first time."

Mike Parry stands in for regular presenter Mark Chapman on Radio 5 Live with Robbie Savage on 606 on Saturday 19 February, 7.15-8.30pm.

His previous show was taken over by former Sky Sports hosts Andy Gray and Richard Keys.