Eni Aluko QUITS After Ian Wright Fiasco

The DEI Mind Virus Went Too Far - And Out-Woked Itself!

There's one thing I quite like about Eni Aluko, the commentator and - importantly by her reckoning - a black woman who has been forced to quit the Women's Football Awards after a comment about a fellow pundit.

After I sparred with her in my most fiery debate on Heretics, we continued to send one another private messages. Well, she sent me messages—a lot of them. I'd be on holiday, my phone abuzz. "Eni again?" my wife would ask.

That's not to absolve myself of blame for these tirades. They often started after I commented negatively or humorously on her car crash of an episode. Directly after the interview, I was in such a daze that I felt bad for Eni.

When she asked for reassurance, as guests do, I told her she'd done well. She's not a bad person - and what am I to do? Look her in the eyes and say, "You fucked that one! Thanks for coming. Safe trip back!"

But in the weeks that followed, many guests and fellow pros invited me to speak on the matter, and it became harder to deny that her interview—watched millions of times on X and half a million on YouTube—was beginning to take its place as an iconic example of cyclical, solipsistic woke-think.

So, Eni was perhaps within her rights to feel aggrieved. Each time, she sent me messages. It reached a point where my only option was to block her on WhatsApp. But then the iMessages started! One or two things she said were seriously beyond the pale, but I would get no pleasure from revealing them and punching her while she’s down.

Instead, I’ll say this: I like that she has chutzpah. I like that she is up for a challenge. She'll say it to your face! That she messaged me privately proved she was interested in convincing me and winning the argument rather than chasing online clout and publicly 'destroying' me.

These are attributes in Eni Aluko that I greatly admire.

In a world of cowards in media who snipe behind backs while publicly singing from their corporation's hymn sheet…in a world in which our leader can't tell you what a woman is until the Supreme Court tells him… she's a breath of fresh air.

Despite appearances, she isn't your typical woke. She is like many black footballers who come from religious Christian backgrounds and now have to square one religion with another. It won’t always add up.

Regardless of background, footballers tend to be quietly anti-woke. They have grown up and thrived in uniquely fierce and competitive environments where the toughest survive. To get into the team, you can't appeal to virtue - such as skin colour or mental health issues. Many of these guys subtly follow me on X but are too scared to reply when I follow back and message them!

Eni Aluko & Ian Wright

While I don't wish to reveal what Eni has told me privately - and while I haven't asked her about this - I imagine that many footballers from her background find the trans thing and the rainbow laces as absurd as the rest of us do.

In that sense, Gary Lineker - with his woke views on everything from Ukraine-Russia to Palestine - is an outlier and a pariah. He is also a coward for failing to address the one issue he could actually impact: trans women (men) in women's sports. He calls for Israel to be banned from football, though he seems happy for North Korea and Iran to continue. Pertinently - absurdly - he's happy for men to hijack the women's game.

Providing they're not Israeli.

All of this gender talk takes me back to Eni, who thinks it's acceptable for women to commentate and analyse the men's game but not the other way around. She is said to be 'traumatised' about her blunder: in a BBC interview, she was prompted to use Ian Wright as an example of someone taking up the space of a woman in the women's game:

I've worked with Ian a long time and, you know, I think he's a brilliant broadcaster. But I think he's aware of just how much he's doing in the women's game. I think he should be aware of that.

You know what?

Considering the furore around this…considering the fall-out…and considering that she lost her job… it's not that bad, is it? Let's be honest: if she'd said this about a less likeable figure than Ian Wright, this wouldn't have even made the news.

That Ian Wright - the nicest man in football - publicly refused to accept her apology - shows just what a big story this became. It’s all a bit stern if you ask me, but I know he’ll be hurting. He has done more than any other man for the women’s game.

Yet I'd wager - though I can't prove this - that had she said it about a white man, such as Gary Neville or Jamie Carragher, her race card would have trumped them in the woke stakes and sparked a national debate about men taking jobs in women's football.

Instead, she went (mildly, it must be said) after a black man from an impoverished upbringing. She even qualified her point by calling him 'brilliant'.

So, as Eni finally learns what it’s like to be on the wrong side of woke, what's really going on?

I think I know:

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