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Great news for Peter Shilton, David Beckham and Kyle Walker. All are up for this year’s Pulitzer Prize, by virtue of having played football for England a few times.
That was the logic behind Eni Aluko’s latest two-footer on Ian Wright: that if you have won 105 caps for the Lionesses, you should qualify automatically for the big gigs in journalism and broadcasting. Wright, she said, was not an “ally”, because he refused to give up punditry jobs to make way for her.
In an unspeakable affront to her sensibilities, Aluko was forced to watch England win the Euro 2025 final from the stands, all because the best TV jobs had not been “gate-kept” for women.
Another superb broadcaster, Laura Woods, replied deftly on social media: “Caps don’t win automatic work and they don’t make a brilliant pundit… The way you communicate, articulate yourself, do your research, inform your audience, how likeable you are and the chemistry you have with your panel are what makes a brilliant pundit.
“‘The women’s game should be by women for women’, is one of the most damaging phrases I’ve heard.”
As Aluko doubled down on Talksport, panellist Simon Jordan put it pretty well too: “The sheer weight of entitlement you seem to believe you have would sink the weight of the Titanic”.