RICHARD KEYS, the Sky Sports presenter in the middle of the sexism-in-football furore, says he is ready to quit his job.
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“I have to ask myself: ‘Do I want to carry on doing what I’m doing’,” Keys told TalkSport today.
In a sometimes emotional interview, Keys appeared to mark the end of his time as the main football anchorman on the satellite channel.
“Our prehistoric banter is not acceptable in the modern world,” he admitted.
“But they’ll never take those 20 years off us.”
Keys made repeated apologies for derogatory remarks he made on the weekend about female assistant referee Sian Massey.
“I’m not proud,” he said. “It shouldn’t have happened. It did.”
In his defence, the former breakfast TV host argued that sexist banter is commonplace.
“Does it happen elsewhere?” he asked. “It probably does.”
Keys revealed that Manchester United footballer Rio Ferdinand had put up a Twitter message which condemned the presenter’s sexist outburst.
“Are you telling me it doesn’t take place in the Manchester United dressing room? My information is that it does,” Keys hit back.
While Keys’ co-presenter Andy Gray was sacked by Sky yesterday over the Massey incident and others, Keys remained in post.
But that was before another off-air recording was made public today in which Keys refers to an ex-girlfriend of pundit Jamie Redknapp as “it” and colourfully describes the former Liverpool player as “hanging out the back of it”.
