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In a pre-match press conference on Wednesday, Sermanni said his players were “completely focused on the game” amid backlash over Triple M radio host Marty Sheargold’s comments about the Matildas on Monday, which led to him parting ways with the station.
During his show on Monday, Sheargold said he would rather “hammer a nail through the head of my penis than watch” women’s soccer, before asking: “Got any men’s sport?”
Sermanni joined a chorus of others, including federal minister for sport Anika Wells, in condemning Sheargold’s comments as “completely unnecessary and generally outrageous”.
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“As sporting teams, we’re used to criticisms,” Sermanni said, “but sometimes the comments cross the line and that one certainly did cross the line.
“It was firstly completely unnecessary and generally outrageous. And you know, it’s something that just from a behavioural perspective is really, very, very disappointing.
“Our team is obviously a very high-profile team, and being a very high-profile team you do take criticism, and you do create criticism sometimes very near the edge. But sometimes that just goes over the edge, and those comments did that.”
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In a pre-match press conference on Wednesday, Sermanni said his players were “completely focused on the game” amid backlash over Triple M radio host Marty Sheargold’s comments about the Matildas on Monday, which led to him parting ways with the station.
During his show on Monday, Sheargold said he would rather “hammer a nail through the head of my penis than watch” women’s soccer, before asking: “Got any men’s sport?”
Sermanni joined a chorus of others, including federal minister for sport Anika Wells, in condemning Sheargold’s comments as “completely unnecessary and generally outrageous”.
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“As sporting teams, we’re used to criticisms,” Sermanni said, “but sometimes the comments cross the line and that one certainly did cross the line.
“It was firstly completely unnecessary and generally outrageous. And you know, it’s something that just from a behavioural perspective is really, very, very disappointing.
“Our team is obviously a very high-profile team, and being a very high-profile team you do take criticism, and you do create criticism sometimes very near the edge. But sometimes that just goes over the edge, and those comments did that.”
Read the full story here.
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