Listening during the night to the R5Live-rpool sports bulletins and was seriously grinding my teeth
at the way in which his sending off was being described by the female reporter along the lines of “he didn’t take it very well and he’s later seen crying on somesteps”.
So essentially the implication is that it’s not alright for him to be upset and become emotional (presumably because he’s a man), but it is absolutely fine for the reactions of the Cameroonian women’s responses to the decisions that went against them vs England as “they displayed a lot of emotion” and “it was an emotional game” when they were also shown in floods of tears, ranting and raving at the officials and at the side of the pitch.
The utter hypocrisy of the BBC in the standard of their reporting in terms of equality is becoming a real bug bear for me. They cannot bang on about equality when this institutional sexism exists, passing off comments about “man flu” as banter etc but then when a man gets upset you highlight it in your fecking sports bulletins throughout the night.
