I cant believe that no one knows the original joke??? its racist, he said a different version.. apparently, cant see him surviving this tbh if anyone jumps on the original joke bandwagon

good job di canio didn't say it. ww3 would have broken out.

It doesn't matter if Townsend wasn't offended by it, the person who reported it obviously was, so it is an issue.

The truth will come out then the shiit will it the fan. Unless the player who got offended was white, then Woy may get away with it.

Who wouldn't raise an eyebrow if they were told to feed the monkey (the monkey being a black player) if they were in a dressing room.

It doesn't matter if Townsend wasn't offended by it, the person who reported it obviously was, so it is an issue.

You have no idea who reported it or why. It could have been the cleaner looking to make a few quid who over heard it.

can't be bothered reading all this

Who was it?

The one comment the vast majority of commentators all say when referring to a big black player is ' He is a Beast! ' now i'm pretty sure the Beast in question is the beast we are all thinking about at the time so why are they allowed to get away with that particular comment every time in fact no one ever pulls them up about it.

They are not saying ' He is a Beast ' because he is playing like a Elephant or Jaguar or Leopard or Giant Sloth but no body bats an eyebrow.

Surely it's time for comments like that to be questioned?

I wonder if other countries press tries to destroy their national team time and time again like ours do.

Just can't believe how quickly this was done, even by their standards it was fast.

everyone knows jermaines a 1st class fcukwit so wouldnt worry about that...

can't be bothered reading all this

Who was it?


my guess is glen johnson......cna imagine he had a phone chat with one of his team mates and decided to get his own back on woy for comments about him when he was somehow made boss at ours (wubber stamped by gerarrd )

Seemed like we are going to all know who it was tomorrow   
Took Freddie Starr longer than normal to be sniffing around my s hit tube  with usual nasty little comments   We are all allowed to say who we think it is a its a forum .As you have reported me numerous times and I'm still here   Maybe you should give up calling me names or I could lower myself to your level and report you I have dozens of your posts calling me very offensive things. 
Starr' seems to be very unhappy since the benefit clampdown.

F*ck P-C, lets get back to Britain being a place renowned for freedom of speech, where people don't need to think about what they say for fear of being accused of being a racist. There is not a chance in hell that Roy was using the term Monkey in a racist manner. Shouldn't be an issue. Other Countries are laughing their heads off at Britain, having gone from a great nation to a shower of sh!t, with all of us accusing each other of racism.

oh man I hope I didn't offend anyone by using the term dumb when I meant stupid!

The player in question hasn't been specifically named on any of the previous pages but ther was a subtle reference to him earlier.

I am a clever sod.......

the player is working class and therefore unlikely to be capable of logical thought.

any interpretation he put on what was said is best ignored.

Jason Roberts is earning a living from the BBC on the back of accusing people of racism ,this is a farce Greg ****'s commission is made up of people who have everybodys interest at heart ,if you get a Black person on the committee you know whose interests they will look after

So what have we learned so far.

Roy Hodgson is not a racist.
Andros Townsend was flattered by the joke but not offended.
The FA are holding an enquiry to find the cause of the leak. Whoever it was deserves to be told, in no uncetain terms, what an odiuos liitle cretin he/she is.

Dykes committee should be made up people in the game that have on won things, with a proven record of success in the game,nothing else.

The England player who leaked the Roy Hodgson space monkey joke is angry at Andros Townsend for backing his manager, says the journalist who broke the story.

Gordon Smart, editor of the Scottish Sun, has confirmed that his source is indeed an England player rather than one of their associates. He has also claimed that the player was one of several who were offended by Hodgson's joke.

During his half-time team talk for England's World Cup qualifier against Poland last Tuesday, Hodgson encouraged his side to pass the ball as often as possible to Townsend by using a NASA joke including the line "feed the monkey".

Smart revealed the story on Wednesday night, with Townsend taking to Twitter the next day to insist he had not been offended. Wayne Rooney also defended Hodgson by saying the situation was "ridiculous".

"He [the source] was angry about Andros Townsend tweeting the following day [to say he was not offended] because he assures me Andros was upset by it," Smart said on BBC Radio 5 Live's Sportsweek programme.

"The following morning [after the Poland game] I got a call from an England player who wasn't very happy at all about what had gone on in the dressing room.
"I said to the player, 'Do you think this is a good idea to go public? Is there not another way for you to go through with this? Should you not go to the FA about this? Have you spoken to Roy?'
"He said no, he wanted to go public and that he wasn't the only player who was upset. They had agreed they wanted to go public with it.
"I called it in to the office and during the day more than one player did corroborate that Roy had made this remark, that it was taken the wrong way. Across the board everyone did agree it was taken the wrong way.
"I don't for one second think Roy Hodgson is racist. I just think he chose his words really unwisely and misjudged the room.
"As I understood it, it was Roy speaking to Chris Smalling and telling him not to muck about with it and to feed the monkey. There were a few extra words in there that I can't repeat at this time of day on the radio.

"It was taken the wrong way and I know that one senior player and Gary Neville looked at each other and at that point said to Roy: 'I think you better explain what you have just said there'. That was when he explained the NASA anecdote."

When quizzed about the identity of his source, Smart was adamant it was an England player, but refused to confirm whether they had featured in Tuesday's clash with Poland. He said: "One hundred per cent direct from the horse's mouth, an England player speaking to me direct.

"I've got to be careful about jigsaw identification," he added.
"If I go in to detail about whether they played or whether they didn't play that would lead to it narrowing it down who it was, so I can't say either way. It's only fair that I protect my source on that."

best guess, it's gonna be one of the man utd boys and this is spillover from the ferdinand thing a year or so back.

smart seems well connected at man u.