Footy Show relic Sam Newman loves Donald Trump, but don’t get him started on women’s AFL

SAM Newman has long thought the world’s gone mad with political correctness, but his comments about female footballers raised a few eyebrows at a recent lunch.

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SAM Newman has long thought the world’s gone mad with political correctness.

The still super-fit septuagenarian Footy Show relic was speaking at Carlton great Percy Jones’s Odd Friday Lunch at the North Fitzroy Arms pub recently, where he expressed some fossilised views about “predatory behaviour” of some players in the new AFL women’s league.

Of course he doesn’t watch the women’s game, as he doesn’t watch the men either.

But a guest at the event, legendary sports writer Ron Reed, noted afterwards on Facebook: “We were left with a heavy hint about a perceived problem within the popular new competition that will make for another controversial start to the Footy Show if he repeats it there.”

It’s no wonder he regards Donald Trump as a breath of fresh air.

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“I am a huge Donald Trump fan. I think he is fantastic,” Newman said, adding a few trademark pearlers:

“I thought the man before him was a disgrace. People will say that’s being racist, but it has nothing to do with him being black,” Newman said.

And the person Donald Trump beat is absolutely the most crooked woman ever to stand for public office. People will say that’s sexist ... it is nothing of the sort.”

Newman was appearing as an “unpaid” guest speaker.

And Jones regarded that as fair enough, saying Sam owed him one after kneeing him where it hurt when they first met at a centre bounce all those decades ago.

SAM’S CLANGERS

2012

Newman caused controversy by pretending to smoke a bong on The Footy Show.

Sam Newman appears to smoke a bong on The Footy Show May 3, 2012

2016

Following the Caroline Wilson drowning joke controversy Newman poured fuel on the fire by branding Wilson an “embarrassment”, during a Footy Show diatribe in defence of friends Collingwood president Eddie McGuire, North Melbourne chairman James Brayshaw and All Australian selector Danny Frawley.

1999

On The Footy Show Newman blackened his face to impersonate indigenous footballer Nicky Winmar at a time when racial vilification charges were being levelled at some AFL players.

2010

Newman was criticised for disrespect to Aboriginal beliefs when he revealed on a radio show that he had hit a golf ball off the summit of Uluru.

2016

Comments made to Footy Show co-host Rebecca Maddern such as “come get on your knees” labelled “workplace harassment” by Domestic Violence Victoria chief executive Fiona McCormack. Newman

2009

During the Footy Show broadcast Newman likened a Malaysian man to a monkey, being “not long out of the forest”.

The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) ruled Newman was likely to have “provoked severe ridicule on the basis of the man’s colour and race”.

Newman’s employer, Channel Nine, offered to donate $200,000 to charity in the event of any future code breach and had “agreed to a number of other provisions in the enforceable undertaking, including significant senior management overview of the materials to be used by Newman and a broad-ranging reporting regime and training obligation”.

2009

The Nine Network and Newman were sued for defamation by a female board member of the Western Bulldogs football team after he said on air that she was a “liar” and “hypocrite”. They settled for $220,000 plus costs.

2008

Mocking football writer and television presenter Caroline Wilson regarding how she had dressed on Footy Classified three days earlier by bringing a mannequin model on to stage and stapling a cardboard cut-out of Wilson on the face of the model and “experimenting” with different outfits. Wilson brought the issue up on Footy Classified the following week, speaking of her disappointment to Garry Lyon, Newman’s co-presenter on The Footy Show.

1997

Well this isn’t really a Sam Newman clanger but he might have done something to warrant a former girlfriend driving his own car into him outside his house, breaking his leg and an ankle.