“Blatant ignorance” – Alan Brazil criticised for comments on Manchester United Women’s team

Alan Brazil has obtained heavy criticism for feedback made on talkSPORT throughout a dialogue about Manchester United and their plans for the ladies’s crew.

The Purple Devils’ present girls’s facet was solely shaped in 2018, placing them behind a number of their main rivals, and with the sport rising a lot in current instances, it’s not shocking to see that growing this facet of the membership is certainly one of their key ambitions.

Brazil hit out at this, nonetheless, despite the fact that his colleague Shebahn Aherne was merely reporting on what Man Utd had been saying, quite than expressing a view herself.

Watch under as Brazil comes throughout actually badly along with his feedback and tone in the direction of his co-host…

“I’m sorry, individuals round them will not be bothered. It’s true. They’re not [bothered]. Throughout the larger image, they’re not,” Brazil stated.

“No, the larger image is followers wish to see Manchester United within the Premier League difficult. That’s the larger image. It’s not that necessary in comparison with the larger image. I’m not going to sit down right here and lie as a result of it’s not.”

Journalists Tom Bowen and Tom Garry had been amongst these to criticise Brazil, whereas this Man United fan and podcaster additionally referred to as him out as a “dinosaur”…

Alan Brazil has bought away with feedback like this prior to now

As reported by the Every day Mirror over ten years in the past, Brazil has beforehand attracted controversy for related feedback, having singled out feminine commentators for getting issues improper, as if the quite a few males working in soccer media haven’t ever achieved the identical.

It’s a disgrace to see Brazil persevering with to deal with the ladies’s recreation this fashion when it’s grown a lot in current instances, with nobody forcing him to sit down down and watch each recreation.

Fairly why point out of United’s ambitions with girls’s soccer offends him a lot is just not clear, however it will likely be fascinating to see if he comes ahead with a proof or an apology.