Jacqui Oatley commentating on Match Of The Day again. Birmingham v Man City has been ruined, I've got to watch it with the sound off.
I thought they'd thrown her out, but no, she's still there with her "WEEWEEWEEWEE SUN JIHAI WEEWEEWEEWEE CHINESE INTERNATIONAL WEEWEEWEEWEE NERVOUS HAR HAR WEEWEEWEEWEE SQUEAKSHEFFREYWEEWEEWEE!!!!!"
Someone fucking shoot her.
Jacqui Oatley (born 1975 in Codsall, South Staffordshire near Wolverhampton[1]) is an English football commentator, notable for being the first female football commentator on the BBC One programme Match of the Day.[2]
After wanting to play football professionally, Oatley graduated with a degree in German from the University of Leeds in 1996. After spending a year travelling the world, she moved to London to work in intellectual property as a Sales and Marketing Manager at Netsearchers International Ltd.[3] While playing amateur football, Oatley sustained a dislocated knee cap and ruptured ligaments, which resulted in a reconstruction operation and ten months recovering on crutches.
Oatley decided to retrain as a journalist, studying print journalism at evening classes while broadcasting on hospital radio. She then gave up her job and flat, and undertook a post graduate course in journalism at Sheffield University. While studying she joined BBC Radio Leeds as a sports reporter, and after graduation joined them full time, making her first commentary on a match between Wakefield & Emley versus Worksop Town in the Unibond League.
Oatley returned to the West Midlands to report and commentate for BBC WM, and then transferred to BBC London 94.9.[3][4] She joined BBC Radio Five Live in 2003, and made her debut as a commentator and the first woman to commentate on a football match on British network radio in 2005 covering the England women’s internationals at the 2005 UEFA Women's Championship. Her subsequent interview with UEFA President Lennart Johansson became an international news story due to his controversial comments on women’s football.[5]
Oatley became the first female football commentator in the history of BBC football programme Match of the Day,[2] with her debut broadcast on 21 April 2007 for the Premier League match between Fulham F.C. and Blackburn Rovers F.C.[6]
Her performance on the programme was criticised by viewers, several of which wrote letters to the BBC requesting her dismissal.[7] Some rival commentators have complained that Oatley had "leapfrogged" them because the BBC wanted a female commentator for "novelty value."
A lifelong Wolverhampton Wanderers supporter,[9] Oatley lives in West London.