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Hanging Out The Blatter it | The History of The World Cup (Part 4/4)
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With the 1992 Premier League launch serving as their entry point, Fin and Horatio spin into an extended, forensic takedown of Richard Keys — the Sky Sports host who personified the worst of football's lad-culture punditry era. The hosts deploy football metaphors to chart his arc of sexism, with Fin describing a young Keys as 'an exciting winger of sexism' not yet at his Maradona peak. The conversation turns biographical: Keys' allegedly racist comment about David Johnson broadcast live on a Sky test channel in 2000, his bizarre 'Choco Joco' slur, the legendary 'Stupid question' clip in which he lounges in light-wash jeans, and culminating in the revelation that he married a lawyer 32 years his junior — allegedly his daughter's best friend — in June 2023. The hosts conclude he is a man who should not wear a microphone.
Richard Keys was the embodiment of a certain era of football punditry — openly racist, brazenly sexist, and in 2023 married a lawyer 32 years his junior who had allegedly been his daughter's best friend. The hosts rank his toxicity against Errol Musk and find him outclassed.
