{"id":291445,"date":"2023-10-06T15:24:14","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T15:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/?p=291445"},"modified":"2023-10-06T15:24:14","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T15:24:14","slug":"peter-shilton-defends-kevin-keegan-over-comments-on-female-pundits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/soccer\/peter-shilton-defends-kevin-keegan-over-comments-on-female-pundits\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Shilton defends Kevin Keegan over comments on female pundits"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Peter Shilton defends Kevin Keegan over his comments on female pundits, saying &#8216;I can see what he is getting at&#8217; and ex-England manager&#8217;s comments have been &#8216;taken out of context&#8217;<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Keegan said he didn&#8217;t like listening to female pundits discussing men&#8217;s game<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Former England goalkeeper Shilton said Keegan shouldn&#8217;t be called a &#8216;dinosaur&#8217;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Listen to the latest episode of Mail Sport&#8217;s podcast &#8216;It&#8217;s All Kicking Off!&#8217;\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Peter Shilton has defended Kevin Keegan amid controversy over the former England manager&#8217;s comments on female football pundits.<\/p>\n<p>Keegan, speaking at an event in Bristol, said he didn&#8217;t like listening to &#8216;an England lady footballer&#8217; providing analysis of Gareth Southgate&#8217;s team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s the same experience, I have a problem with that,&#8217; Keegan added.<\/p>\n<p>Former England goalkeeper Shilton said he could &#8216;see what Keegan was getting at&#8217; but believed the comments had been &#8216;taken out of context.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Shilton told GB News: &#8216;In this day and age with equal opportunities in many things, women and men come together so much.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/06\/15\/76250093-12602501-image-a-33_1696601943339.jpg\" height=\"334\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Former England goalkeeper Peter Shilton has defended Kevin Keegan over his controversial comments about female pundits covering men&#8217;s football games<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/06\/15\/76250091-12602501-image-a-34_1696601977709.jpg\" height=\"389\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Ex-England manager Keegan told an event in Bristol he &#8216;had a problem&#8217; with female pundits\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I have always been a big supporter of women&#8217;s football, especially the last five or six years. Jill Scott when she broke her caps record, the Euros and the World Cup. Women&#8217;s football has improved dramatically.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Personally, I can see what Kevin was getting at. I think it&#8217;s been taken out of context.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He was described as a dinosaur but he was managing Manchester City in 2005, so it&#8217;s not that long ago. He s a man of big experience who managed England.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Basically, what he is actually saying is &#8216;would women play against men in a men&#8217;s game? No, they wouldn&#8217;t because of obvious other things.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Should a woman who has probably been at the top of her career for the last four or five years in the women&#8217;s game, be put in front of someone with 15 years of top class international football? I think that is what he is saying.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Shilton, England&#8217;s most capped men&#8217;s player, continued: &#8216;Personally, I know Kevin very well and I don&#8217;t think he would go out of his way to make women&#8217;s football any less than it is.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It comes down to experience, we are getting a lot of females coming on very quickly and you&#8217;re bound to think is this because they&#8217;ve been in the news recently, we&#8217;re got to have this equal [opportunities], have they got the experience to talk about international football at men&#8217;s level?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/06\/15\/76182525-12602501-Keegan_insisted_some_women_pundits_were_better_than_their_male_c-a-35_1696602034024.jpg\" height=\"400\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Eniola Aluko and Gabby Logan alongside Alan Shearer on Amazon&#8217;s Premier League coverage\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/06\/15\/76179711-12602501-Keegan_singled_out_BBC_Sport_presenter_Gabby_Logan_for_praise_in-a-36_1696602070574.jpg\" height=\"452\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Keegan\u00a0singled out BBC Sport presenter Gabby Logan for praise in his speech<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;That&#8217;s just an opinion, that&#8217;s all Kevin was trying to say. He felt that maybe it would be better with someone else.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Anybody that is saying anything against equal opportunities &#8211; I think they&#8217;re twisting it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I just think it has maybe been thrust at the normal football public &#8211; men in particular &#8211; that we have got to have women on the programme because of the Euros and that sort of thing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It just seems it is a must, we have to have women to justify it. Whether it&#8217;s right or whether it&#8217;s wrong, it comes down to experience and knowledge.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><span>Keegan, 72, insisted his view was not intent to belittle women&#8217;s football and women&#8217;s pundits.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The presenters we have now, some of the girls are so good, they are better than the guys. It&#8217;s a great time for the ladies,&#8217; he said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/06\/15\/76250087-12602501-image-a-37_1696602077690.jpg\" height=\"456\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Alex Scott fronts BBC&#8217;s football coverage of both the men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s game<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/06\/15\/76250089-12602501-image-a-38_1696602099296.jpg\" height=\"438\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Karen Carney working for Sky Sports on a Premier League match earlier this year<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It is a great time for the ladies&#8217; game. When I was England manager [from February 1999 to October 2000], I went to coach the England ladies and I had this perception of what the quality would be like and they were so much better than I thought they were going to be.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I joined in and then I thought, &#8216;I&#8217;m getting out of this&#8217;. I couldn&#8217;t get the bloody ball and one of them nutmegged me, that finished me off.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>He also singled out BBC Sport presenter Gabby Logan for praise.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;There are some very, very good lady presenters and I&#8217;m working with one in two days&#8217; time, Terry Yorath&#8217;s daughter, Gabby [Logan],&#8217; he said.<\/p>\n<p>However, he claimed women pundits were not in a position to commentate on men&#8217;s football.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;If\u00a0I see an England lady footballer saying about England against Scotland at Wembley and she&#8217;s saying, &#8216;If I would have been in that position I would have done this&#8217;, I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s quite the same,&#8217; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I don\u2019t think it crosses over that much.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>IT&#8217;S ALL KICKING OFF!\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p><span>It&#8217;s All Kicking Off\u00a0is an exciting new podcast from Mail Sport that promises a different take on Premier League football, launching with a preview show today and every week this season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It is available on MailOnline, Mail+, YouTube , Apple Music and Spotify<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12602501\/Peter-Shilton-defends-Kevin-Keegan-comments-female-pundits-saying-getting-ex-England-managers-comments-taken-context.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Peter Shilton defends Kevin Keegan over his comments on female pundits, saying &#8216;I can see what he is getting at&#8217; and ex-England manager&#8217;s comments have <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/soccer\/peter-shilton-defends-kevin-keegan-over-comments-on-female-pundits\/\" title=\"Peter Shilton defends Kevin Keegan over comments on female pundits\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Peter Shilton defends Kevin Keegan over comments on female pundits - Sportstoft<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/soccer\/peter-shilton-defends-kevin-keegan-over-comments-on-female-pundits\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Peter Shilton defends Kevin Keegan over comments on female pundits - Sportstoft\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Peter Shilton defends Kevin Keegan over his comments on female pundits, saying &#8216;I can see what he is getting at&#8217; and ex-England manager&#8217;s comments have [...]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/soccer\/peter-shilton-defends-kevin-keegan-over-comments-on-female-pundits\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sportstoft\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-10-06T15:24:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jeanette\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Peter-Shilton-defends-Kevin-Keegan-over-comments-on-female-pundits.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jeanette\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/soccer\/peter-shilton-defends-kevin-keegan-over-comments-on-female-pundits\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/soccer\/peter-shilton-defends-kevin-keegan-over-comments-on-female-pundits\/\",\"name\":\"Peter Shilton defends Kevin Keegan over comments on female pundits - Sportstoft\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2023-10-06T15:24:14+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-10-06T15:24:14+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/#\/schema\/person\/74db1979fe71b5ea01513ec1ce5bc609\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/soccer\/peter-shilton-defends-kevin-keegan-over-comments-on-female-pundits\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/soccer\/peter-shilton-defends-kevin-keegan-over-comments-on-female-pundits\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/soccer\/peter-shilton-defends-kevin-keegan-over-comments-on-female-pundits\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Soccer\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/category\/soccer\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Peter Shilton defends Kevin Keegan over comments on female pundits\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/\",\"name\":\"Sportstoft\",\"description\":\"sportstoft.com\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/#\/schema\/person\/74db1979fe71b5ea01513ec1ce5bc609\",\"name\":\"Jeanette\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d7cef2e0d8d634cb49d54f7c48b549a1?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d7cef2e0d8d634cb49d54f7c48b549a1?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Jeanette\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Peter Shilton defends Kevin Keegan over comments on female pundits - Sportstoft","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/soccer\/peter-shilton-defends-kevin-keegan-over-comments-on-female-pundits\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Peter Shilton defends Kevin Keegan over comments on female pundits - Sportstoft","og_description":"Peter Shilton defends Kevin Keegan over his comments on female pundits, saying &#8216;I can see what he is getting at&#8217; and ex-England manager&#8217;s comments have [...]","og_url":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/soccer\/peter-shilton-defends-kevin-keegan-over-comments-on-female-pundits\/","og_site_name":"Sportstoft","article_published_time":"2023-10-06T15:24:14+00:00","author":"Jeanette","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_image":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Peter-Shilton-defends-Kevin-Keegan-over-comments-on-female-pundits.jpg","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Jeanette","Est. reading time":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/soccer\/peter-shilton-defends-kevin-keegan-over-comments-on-female-pundits\/","url":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/soccer\/peter-shilton-defends-kevin-keegan-over-comments-on-female-pundits\/","name":"Peter Shilton defends Kevin Keegan over comments on female pundits - Sportstoft","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/#website"},"datePublished":"2023-10-06T15:24:14+00:00","dateModified":"2023-10-06T15:24:14+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/#\/schema\/person\/74db1979fe71b5ea01513ec1ce5bc609"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/soccer\/peter-shilton-defends-kevin-keegan-over-comments-on-female-pundits\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/soccer\/peter-shilton-defends-kevin-keegan-over-comments-on-female-pundits\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/soccer\/peter-shilton-defends-kevin-keegan-over-comments-on-female-pundits\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Soccer","item":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/category\/soccer\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Peter Shilton defends Kevin Keegan over comments on female pundits"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/","name":"Sportstoft","description":"sportstoft.com","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/#\/schema\/person\/74db1979fe71b5ea01513ec1ce5bc609","name":"Jeanette","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d7cef2e0d8d634cb49d54f7c48b549a1?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d7cef2e0d8d634cb49d54f7c48b549a1?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Jeanette"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291445"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}