Luton manager Mike Newell has launched an astonishing attack on
assistant referee Amy Rayner and claimed female officials should be
banned from professional football.
Speaking after his team's 3-2 home defeat by QPR, Newell claimed
the presence of Rayner - in her second year as an official -
amounted simply to tokenism and political correctness.
Newell said: "She should not be here. I know that sounds sexist,
but I am sexist, so I am not going to be anything other than
that.
"It is absolutely beyond belief. "It is bad enough with the
incapable referees and linesmen we have, but if you start bringing
in women, you have big problems.
"This is Championship football. This is not park football, so what
are women doing here? It is tokenism, for the politically-correct
idiots.''
