Sam Wallace: Keys’ anxiousness to have his declare was the decisive nail in his coffin
In seeking to detail his position he hinted at a hidden conspiracy - "the dark forces" - that had prevented him from apologising earlier in the week. He claimed that sexism was rife in the Manchester United dressing room. He apologised to Karren Brady, West Ham's vice-chairman, then claimed she had worn his disparaging take notice about her to misrepresent the club's aware problems.
In the lingua franca of an dynamism obsessed with general image, Keys had "gone rogue". He even compared his own examination by leaked footage to the phone-hacking obloquy that is consuming Sky Sports' procreator followers News Corp. One can only concoct how Rupert Murdoch's executives felt about that. "We do living in a democracy, there are two sides to this," Keys pleaded. "Please, we've heard one a lot, let's hark the other one a petty bit.
" It was, in the modish parlance, car-crash radio. This was Keys' Alan Partridge moment. Or rather it was comparable to the mo when Alan goes on mood to apologise to Norfolk's farmers only to abandon the apology midway with appalling consequences. At one something in the interview, Keys was interrupted by one of the presenters who scan out a utterance released via Andy Gray's lawyers expressing, to sum up and succinctly, his own regret.
"Well, it's breed of saying what I have," responded Keys. But Keys said so much more. The contradictions were involved to ignore. On the discussed of his darling "banter", as he described it, Keys said: "There is a wider discourse here about is it sexist? Is it lads' mag banter? Is there a recall for it? That is not for me to arbiter elegantiarum and this is not the age for that conversation." The answers he was definitely looking for were: yes, yes and no.
Even then he must have known then he was on his speed out. There was a screw-you-moment to those at Sky who stitched him up - "Whatever happens next they will never see those 20 years off us" - and a cue to others that they had bender at the "well" of triumph dug by him and Gray. Keys has always been the most wary of presenters, never chic embroiled in any conspicuous rows beyond the kookie unguarded comment recorded on a microphone.
His disposition has never been a feature of his presenting. Not until now when, definitively let off the leash, he has let rip on 20 years' merit of conspiracy theories and animosities. Keys has had a ringside tail over the years, watching various figures in English football hang themselves with their words, none more celebrated than Kevin Keegan's bombast in 1996 about Sir Alex Ferguson televise live on Sky Sports. But it did not arrest him repeating the same mistakes.
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