Leicester Tigers Vs Bristol Bears - Is Wokism Creeping In?

[Deskdiary]

I'm watching the Tigers v Bears match (utterly fantastic game) and toward the end Nick Mullins has passed to a co-commentator to choose the best player, and he said (paraphrasing) "the man of the match, sorry, I meant the player of the match is van Rensburg".

 

Unless van Rensburg is identifying as something other than a man, why would the co-commentator need to 'correct' himself from man of the match to player of the match?

[albaqwerty]

I presume co-commentator is protecting any future employment by showing off his diversity skills.

This wokeism, transvestite nonsense is continuing to be ridiculous. 

[Old_Geezer]

In any case, any UK team calling themselves after an animal seem to be playing on the wrong side of the Pond.  That's an embarrassment before any woke commentator starts layering on further embarrassment.

[ToraToraTora]

it's the woke mind virus.

[Deskdiary]

7.49pm - what on earth are you wittering on about?

[newmodarmy]

OG's post seemed clear to me. He isn't disagreeing with you.

[ToraToraTora]

OG a lot of rugby teams have that and they were named long before the US started doing it. Eg Leicester Tigers were formed in 1880.

[Deskdiary]

8.43 - not really. Leicester have been called the Tigers even before American football started. 

[Old_Geezer]

It's clearly an American practice as the UK tends to have more sense. If there are a few teams that started it early here, all the more embarrassing for them. None local to me indulged when I was young.