What are people so worked up about? We might just have to make small, incremental changes to our language at times. And by the way, it’s happening whether you like it or not. Don’t be so uptight about it.
I don’t think Souness should be sacked or hauled across the coals, but you can’t tell me that production staff won’t have briefed him and all the other pundits on things like terminology. He knows exactly what he’s doing when he talks about a man’s game, played by men, when he’s got a woman sitting next to him on live television. He’s no mug.
You can say ‘man on’ on the field. ‘He’s beat his man too easily’. ‘Pick your man up.’ ‘Man marking.’ Has anyone ever said you can’t or shouldn’t say those things? But there’s a different between that and sitting in a television studio talking about it being a man’s game. Souness knows this full well.