Football: The Manchester United boss’ outrageous comment to Alessia Russo overshadowed the membership’s award ceremony

On Twitter, direct remarks turned into given to John Shiels, who published comments demeaning to ladies.

Football club Manchester United Foundation CEO John Shielsin the behavior stirred the membership at the award rite on Monday.

Shiels turned into handing out the ManU ladies’s team’s intention of the season award to the celebrity player Alessia Russollebut made the scenario troublesome along with his comments.

“I gained’t supply the award to Alessia due to this [palkinto] is so heavy. I simply went to raise weights. Jason, can you're taking this,” Shiels asked the character in the history.

Shiels’ feedback may be heard in the video underneath, filmed on the award ceremony.

Hosted the award rite Geoff Shreeves attempted his satisfactory to fix the scenario.

“Wouldn’t Alessia be happy to take it? John, you could want to growth your gymnasium exercises, the prize isn't always that heavy,” Shreeves mentioned.

Russo ultimately were given the award, but even after that Shiels made certain that he didn’t permit the infant out of the player’s arms. In addition to the purpose of the season award, Russo become offered his crew’s participant of the 12 months at the event.

The incident sparked a debate on Twitter. For instance, the only who hosts the Manchester United podcast Conner Roberts shared the above video of the scenario, which had already been viewed 2.2 million times by means of Wednesday.

 

 

Alessia Russo (proper) and Ona Batlle put together for the suit in Liverpool. Picture: MOLLY DARLINGTON / Reuters

“Unfortunately, there are nevertheless folks who treat woman athletes differently,” Roberts lamented in his Twitter update.

Shiels defended and apologized for his comments on his Twitter account on Tuesday.

“I warned Alessia about the weight of the award due to the fact I turned into shocked via how heavy it felt. I might have finished the equal for a male participant,” Shiels wrote.

“I just didn’t want him to drop it,” she persevered.

Roberts inside the tweet thread, a couple of users suspected Shiels of additionally mistakenly calling Russo “Alexa” or “Alexia”. You can’t be absolutely certain about this from the video, however Roberts also suspected that this came about.

In the season that ended, Russo became tied for first vicinity in his crew’s scoring records Leah Galtonin with. Manchester United’s girls’s crew finished second behind Chelsea in the English Super League.