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Former Manchester United and Scotland striker Alan Brazil sparked controversy this morning after claiming individuals all over the world are “not bothered” about ladies’s soccer.
The talkSPORT host made the feedback when responding to co-presenter Shebahn Aherne, who had been discussing United’s bid to get the membership again on observe beneath the Ineos Group.
Experiences yesterday claimed United have formulated two plans, labelled ‘Mission 21’ for the boys and ‘Mission 1’ for the ladies. However Brazil stated individuals would solely have an interest within the males’s aspect.
Talking this morning, he stated: “With the best respect, while you speak about Manchester United…ladies’s soccer is getting extra essential now, however while you speak about Manchester United, that is the boys’s we’re speaking about, the Premier League after we’re speaking about mission unattainable, not the ladies’s.”
Aherne objected however Brazil continued: “It isn’t [a priority]. I’m sorry, individuals all over the world should not bothered. It’s true. They’re not [bothered]. Inside the larger image, they’re not.
“No, the larger image is followers wish to see Manchester United within the Premier League difficult. That’s the larger image. It [women’s football] is just not that essential in comparison with the larger image. I’m not going to sit down right here and lie as a result of it’s not.”
As Brazil raised his voice as if to stress his level, Ahern stated: “Al cease being like that. You sound like a correct dinosaur. I don’t know why you’re talking like that.”
Alan Brazil displaying himself to be dinosaur he actually is and TalkSport overtly permitting this to be his behaviour.
The person has a grand daughter and that’s his opinion on the ladies’s sport. Soccer is for everybody. Not simply males.
Disgrace on him. pic.twitter.com/2gLL7ns9As
— Callum (@_callumstone) February 6, 2025
It’s not the primary time, the outspoken Brazil has hit the headlines for the incorrect causes.
“How’s Bob’s well being?”
The day after a gala night time in tribute to late comic Bob Monkhouse, Brazil interviewed TV critic Garry Bushell stay on air concerning the occasion.
“Garry, how was Bob’s well being final night time?” Brazil enquired.
“He died, Alan,” got here Bushell’s shocked reply.
“Oh, I’d heard two variations,” stated Brazil, bizarrely.
Dismissed earlier than being reinstated
Brazil was sacked by talkSPORT in 2004 after failing to show up for work one morning having been on the Cheltenham Competition.
The Scot was absent for 3 weeks earlier than being reinstated having given the station “sure authorized undertakings”.
Robin Williams suicide
In 2014 he was closely criticised for saying he had “little sympathy” for actor Robin Williams, who dedicated suicide after a protracted battle with melancholy.
Brazil stated on the time: “I imagine he’s received a daughter as effectively, what’s she feeling like this morning?
“Now she’s received to type the preparations out. I believe it’s surprising, I actually do. I don’t have a number of sympathy, I’m sorry.
“It could be [harsh] however that’s the way in which I really feel.
“What you permit behind is diabolical, I’m actually aggravated about that.”
Sandy Warr row
Brazil was cleared by broadcast regulator Ofcom after accusations he bullied newsreader Sandy Warr stay on air.
Warr stormed out of the studio after being accused by Brazil of being “Jeremy Corbyn’s niece”.
“Girls’s soccer is just not my cup of tea”
It isn’t the primary time Brazil has outlined his disdain for ladies’s soccer.
Talking in an interview with the Day by day Mail in October 2020, he stated: “I do know individuals name me a dinosaur however I’m a contented dinosaur. I don’t see an issue in being laddish. There are various individuals on the market who assume I’m too previous, too manly, too white. But when a radio broadcaster is bringing in listeners, that basically must be all that counts.
“If somebody requested me if I’d watch 90 minutes of girls’s soccer, I’d say no. Good luck to ladies footballers and anybody who needs to observe them play, but it surely’s simply not my cup of tea.
“What irritates me is that most individuals I communicate to assume the identical however are too afraid to say it.”
