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    Dirty Tackle

    Sky Sports News’ Jim White with a transfer deadline slip of the tongue

    By Brooks Peck | Dirty Tackle – Tue, Jan 31, 2012 6:55 PM EST

    When transfer deadline day rolls around, Sky Sports News' Jim White gets more excited than a puppy attached to a leash made of bacon. So excited, in fact, that sometimes his mouth is so overeager to spit out the latest transfer dealings that it creates a perfect sized opening for his foot.

    So while recapping the day's moves as Big Ben ominously struck 11 p.m., instead of declaring that striker Bobby Zamora had joined Queens Park Rangers, it sounded like White announced that "Bobby Zamora has gone from Fulham to Coons Park Rangers." Clearly his Scottish accent and excitable nature conspired against him to produce a muddled combination of syllables, but it's still an unfortunate occurrence in his big moment. Especially given all the more intentional instances of racist slurs and behavior in English football of late.

    Next time, just remember to breathe, Jim.

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    4 comments

    • soul.on.ice
      soul.on.ice  •  3 months ago
      My eye is more on the writer than the Scot who probably has no idea what #$%$ means in the American lexicon. Nice way to work the word into your article. How long had you been holding hope to able to use it? Assshooole
    • Caine
      Caine  •  3 months ago
      "Clearly his Scottish accent and excitable nature conspired against him to produce a muddled combination of syllables"...Come on the guys a bluenose who sings God save the queen before he goes to bed at night..NO mixed syllables, just Jim dropping his guard and saying what he was thinking..How do you mix syllables used for queen to #$%$
    • stuart
      stuart  •  Manchester, United Kingdom  •  3 months ago
      Freudian slip?
    • John
      John  •  3 months ago
      As the person who posted this on Youtube, I initially just thought I had caught a very simply slip of the tongue and, maybe, Jim was thinking ahead to another name or story and got a little muddled.

      That could, of course, be the case, but the more I listen back and watch the pictures on screen, I can't help but to think that he might just have said precisely the word he was actually thinking about.

      In reality, we will never know - unless someone cares to ask him..!!!
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