Mark Lawrenson has shown himself to be the snowflakiest snowflake of all with comments about his departure from the BBC earlier this year. twoht
If you’re fortunate enough to have a job in the media it’s for the best to steer clear of cliché, but sometimes you’re left with little choice but to indulge it anyway.
According to Lawrenson, ‘The editor of the programme said, ‘Any free-kicks around the penalty area tonight, please don’t mention the wall’. Yet again, a wilful refusal to even acknowledge what the word ‘woke’ actuallyappears to be beyond him, but perhaps we’re expecting too much from him if we expect him to be coherent on this subject. After all, elsewhere, he says, ‘In all my time at the BBC, nobody at the BBC ever said you can’t say this or that’.
That the The Sun, The Daily Express, The Sunday Times, The Mail on Sunday and the Sunday Telegraph should have been gleefully reporting his claims on an otherwise quiet Sunday morning is hardly surprising. They seldom miss a chance to have a go at the BBC, even when it requires making shit up to do so. But in saying the quiet part out loud, Lawrenson offers us the opportunity to have a brief look back at his career to examine just how hard done by he’s actually been..
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