Home And Away | Football must slap down the PC brigade and their synthetic outcries of moral outrage

We’ve been doing the time warp in football la-la land, travelling back to 1960s China. Scores of hysterical, righteous young warriors carrying the big banner slogans of the snowflake generation of the 2000s and 2010s – along with older fanatics (who should know better but who want the young’s vote) – have been dispatching mob justice with all the zeal of Red Guards on social media, running roughshod over commonsense, decency, logic and natural justice.

The latest victim swept up in this trendy, looney-left Twitterati crusade is Sunderland boss David Moyes after he was recorded issuing a warning to a female BBC reporter that she might “get a slap” if she dares ever again to question his ability.

Believing the cameras and microphones were off, he made his remarks in a half-jokey way, though the other 50 per cent of his phrasing had a distinct Glaswegian workingman’s club menace to it, the kind of reaction you’d expect over a spilt pint of heavy.

The reporter had made a straightforward journalistic inquiry about Moyes’ future – a question deservedly thrown at those managers whose team are at the foot of the Premier League table and have not won once since December.

Watch: David Moyes’ comment

The incident happened some weeks ago and was kept out of the media because the reporter had the grace to accept the apologies made by Moyes shortly after he made his off-the-cuff remarks.