David Moyes threatens to slap female journalist

Do you joke about slapping your female colleagues?

She wasn't being a bitch though, she'd asked him a perfectly normal question.  He took exception to it because he's an ultra-prickly cunt whenever anyone suggests he might not be doing a good job or ought to be held to the same standards as other managers.  It's especially bad here because he's trying to stop a journalist doing her job and doing it with a "jokey" threat of violence that elicits nervous laughter.

If someone much bigger, richer and stronger than you, someone you rely on for your job, made a "joke" about how you should stop annoying them or they'd slap you around would you laugh?  If it was someone who has been accused of beating people up when under pressure in the past?  I think most people would.  There's a power balance there that you're completely ignoring.        

I'm a little surprised they've decided to keep him, opportunities to get shot of that guy without paying up huge amounts of money are rare.

I'm not surprised from an ethical point of view though, Sunderland is a club whose morals are beneath contempt. Football seems to have forgiven them for keeping Adam Johnson when they knew he was a nonce.

I don't hate Moyes, I just hold him in contempt personally and professionally.

As far as anger issues and violent behaviour are concerned, Moyes was accused of beating people up in a wine bar in Clitheroe by multiple witnesses shortly after being sacked from United.  The police dropped it because it wasn't exactly clear what had gone on but he's not the saint his media image suggests.  If I was a woman and he "joked" that I might get a slap I'd take heed of the warning.