Veteran TV presenter Eamonn Holmes has leapt to the defence Brendan Rodgers as the Celtic boss comes under fire over his “good girl” comment to BBC Scotland reporter Jane Lewis.Belfast-born Holmes backed Rodgers and claimed the term is widely used in Rodgers’ native Northern Ireland.
It comes after the Parkhead gaffer was branded a “dinosaur” by a spokesperson for the Scottish Feminist Network.But while Holmes defended Rodgers on GB News, his co-host Isabel Webster said his comment was “belittling”.
As they discussed the interview, Holmes said: “He meant good girl. Brendan Rodgers is from Carnlough in Northern Ireland. We say ‘good girl’ all the time.
I can honestly tell you that Northern Irish people will say ‘good girl, good boy, good lad’. We are admonished for it all the time because it’s not contemporary.”However, co-host Webster said: “He sounds a bit annoyed and she is not a girl, she’s a woman.
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