Eni Aluko QUITS presenting job after being left ‘traumatised’ by Ian Wright fallout
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Eni Aluko QUITS presenting job after being left ‘traumatised’ by Ian Wright fallout
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/breaking-eni-aluko-quits-presenting-35143912
Posted by ThatchersDirtyTaint
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If it isn’t the consequence of your own fucking words.
And against Ian Wright of all people – someone who’s been an absolute fucking **champion** for women in all roles in football for a long time – to the point of paying out of his own pocket.
You take a shot at the king you better not miss, love.
When the nicest guy in football doesn’t accept your apology, you done fucked up.
I am genuinely sorry for her…but this is entirely of her own making. In particular, her apology was weak as she tried not to take full responsibility.
Hopefully she learns from this and actually thinks before she speaks in future, she seems to have a massive chip on her shoulder whilst simultaneously being in an extremely privileged position that isn’t healthy.
Seeing the word “traumatised” as a result of your own actions is classic victim complex though so I doubt it.
Oh boohoo. It’s not because she was a woman, or black – it’s because she was *shit*. Uncle Wrighty has done more for football (including women’s football) than she ever will.
I feel sorry for her but I can’t stand people saying they’re “traumatised” when they suffer the consequences of their own stupid actions.
Nothing of substance has been lost. She was terrible at punditry and it was mental going after Ian Wright in the manner she did.
Thank fucked. Couldn’t stand her. Greatful Ian Wright is left alone. He’s done amazing things for Women’s football.
She has permanent victim complex. All her own doing, good riddance
I give it 2 weeks before you see her on GB News spouting some utter bollocks.
She creates a problem out of nothing , no one agrees with her , now has no job …
I *kinda* understood her point, but directing it at Ian Wright of all people, a man that fully embodies what it means to both champion women’s football AND empower women making their way into punditry, is absolute insanity.
With that said, she does have a history of making outlandish statements. I remember her being a backer of Boris Johnson, and making some ill-advised tweets about those that took furlough. Given she’s got a law degree I find it a bit mad that she courts controversy so frequently.
Ultimately, she’s only got herself to blame, but based on her IG stories she doesn’t seem to share that belief. That’s probably what’s caused ITV to take a side, and it’s almost definitely what’ll move her into something other than presenting and punditry. She’s obviously more than capable on the football side, so I doubt she’ll have few opportunities go her way, but hopefully she’ll be more measured in her public outbursts in future.
She was traumatised? Ask Ian Wright how he felt being pulled under the bus. She only has herself to blame.
Poor thing. Traumatised by being a moron. Let’s hope we don’t see her in the media again.
So they made a personally targeted attack on a person that was immediately contradicted and shut down by clear facts and years of evidence to the contrary. They then apologised and are now making another veiled attack saying they have been traumatised by the person, due to being their own attack and having to apologise.
I’d have respected them if they apologised and bowed out of the spotlight. She was given that space to save face. But to reframe it as trauma – insinuating that again its something someone else has done to them – is bullshit.
But it should be noted that, and this is important, the comment was made by her mother to the Daily Mail, **not by her**.
>”This situation has affected Eni quite a lot and has left her traumatised and upset. I’m doing my best to keep her calm and just be a good mum. I’m constantly in touch with her and even met her for lunch the other day.
>I told her that football is not the world and that you don’t become a bad or useless person in one day. It’s been tough for her, she has a lot of strong opinions, but she will come through this. She has dealt with a lot of other difficult situations in her life”
– Her mum.
I think there’s a difference between night and day whether I say I’m traumatised about something and whether my mum tells people I am.
She can still go fuck herself, but I do feel full clarification of who said it is important.
Isn’t this the second time she’s fucked herself up? I’m pretty sure she’s done something before to try and be the main character and failed dramatically
When I come across the Mr Pigden video on social media, I always stop and watch, just to see the look on Ian’s face and the immediacy in which he takes his hat off. It’s just a beautiful moment and one that shows that Wrighty is sheer class in whatever he does. The support he has given to the women’s game did not warrant anything but praise from Eni or anyone else for that matter. Sadly Aluko, you bought all this on yourself.
Good riddance.
She falsely claimed a man was racist and now this nonsense with Ian. Awful girl.
‘traumatised’
Oh f off.
Nothing of value was lost
The only good thing to come out of this is it increased my respect for Ian Wright to another higher level.
Please don’t read the above as anti-women, because it ain’t.
Throwing words like “traumatised” around feels a bit rich
She’s always been an awful pundit and so not much loss. Doesn’t surprise me at all that something she has said caused all this, as she’s clearly not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
She shouldn’t have opened her mouth and criticized someone who champions women’s football meanwhile all she does is complain at the lack of opportunity. Life and jobs aren’t on DEI, you get them by having experience and being the best at what you do.
I’m not denying her football skills but she only gets the job because she ticks a couple of boxes and not for her experience in the media industry.
She is a god awful pundit which is why she had been dropped in the past and is struggling to find work now. This has nothing to do with anything else.
I punched someone and was traumatised when they punched me back
Lot of people reading the headline and not the article assuming she’s quit all her live football coverage presenting gig(s) and that isn’t the case – she’s stepped down from co-hosting the upcoming women’s football awards show. She’ll still be on TV
It can’t be great for anyone to receive such a level of backlash for anything to be fair, so I get her taking a break. Hate it when someone describes receiving fair criticism as traumatising though
What she said was obviously a mad take (and she has shown herself to have a few such mad takes in the past) so hopefully she does a bit of reflection as she takes this break, won’t be holding my breath though lol. Is what she said bad enough that she should lose jobs or future career opportunities over it? Nah, that would be overkill in my opinion. Though her professional relationship with Ian Wright is probably damaged and that’s her own fault.
Well she wanted to open up more opportunities for women in presenting football.
So I guess she succeeded in a way.
Isn’t this her modus operandi. Was anyone surprised shes a shitty person.
This has given everyone the ammunition to say what they couldn’t say about her all along lol
I fucking love Ian Wright. He’s done more for women’s football than she has
She’s very accident prone, it’s not the first time she’s said something ridiculous
I’ve defended her for the longest time against the torrent of abuse she gets. But sending for Ian Wright, one of the biggest proponents of women’s football, is just absolutely insane from her, genuinely bizarre
You’re not entitled to special treatment because you’re female.
No one says a thing about Alex Scott presenting everything
Not only is Ian Wright a National Treasure, he has been for a long time a massive supporter of the Women’s game. And he put’s his money where his mouth is.
Calling him out like she did was completely fucking stupid and for that there are consequences.
And she STILL has to play the victim card on the way out.
She’s a professional victim. I just switch off whenever I see her.
She should have apologised in a genuine manner rather than digging her heels in.. in saying that, she shouldn’t be piled on either.
😂 Traumatised! Fucking hell. Looking for sympathy anywhere she can and won’t admit it’s her fault 😂
Didn’t she screw the england team over by getting the manager sacked for bullying and racism, when we had a good thing going?
Some people are just drama queens and since the internet started encouraging victimhood around race and metoo it’s been a problem. Aluko is another version of that charity worker prince harry tried to fire the other day.
“Is it becuz i is a black woman?”
If I was as sh*te at my job as she was, I would have been sacked long ago.
Regardless of race/gender/sex etc etc
Hopefully she doesn’t do anymore punditry on the men’s game either
Dare I say it, she was bloody useless the times I saw her on tv anyway.
I hate that the word traumatised can be used for anything
Like there are people that deal with genuine physical mental emotional trauma and cpstd
And it’s like okay she said something shitty now they have to say traumatised
I feel bad if people jumped on the wagon of hating her over it but what did think would be the consequences of her actions?
Picked a fight, got trunched, running off. Everything went better than expected tbh
She’s a bully, end of. Chris Kirkland has the screenshots.
She is a classic “by any means necessary” person. Even if a man has had a huge impact on womens football, he is still counter to the ultimate goal. Hence why in that moment, she didn’t hesistate to throw him under the bus, for being male.
Disgrace.