Malky Mackay: The ‘sexist, racist, homophobic’ texts which cost him the Crystal Palace job
Malky Mackay has lost out in the running to become the next Crystal Palace manager after a shocking series of text messages were revealed.
The former Cardiff City boss was hoping to make a return to management following his sacking by the Welsh club last December and was a shoo-in to be named Tony Pulis’ successor at Selhurst Park.
But a Daily Mail exposé has uncovered a series of explicit and offensive texts that Mackay and Cardiff’s former head of recruitment Iain Moody exchanged during their time at the club.
Cardiff had been investigating Mackay and Moody, who quit his post as sporting director at Palace this morning, over eight controversial transfers and scoured through 70,000 text messages and 100,000 emails before reporting their findings to the Football Association.
These are the texts sent between the pair:
- In July 2012, when Cardiff signed Kim Bo-kuyng, Moody referred to the South Korean attacker and his representatives as ‘Five of the b******s including the player’ in a text to Mackay, who replied ‘Fkn chinkys’ before adding ‘Fk it. There’s enough dogs in Cardiff for us all to go around.’
- One text says of football agent Phil Smith: ‘Go on, fat Phil. Nothing like a Jew that sees money slipping through his fingers’. A text concerning Maccabi Tel Aviv saw the Israeli club referred to as ‘the Jews’.
- An official at an unnamed club was referred to as ‘a gay snake’ and ‘the homo’, claimng hew as ‘not to be trusted’. A French player was also referred to as someone ‘who struck me as an independently minded young homo’.
- A young player with a female agent was told ‘I hope she’s looking after your needs,’ the player is then told. ‘I bet you’d love a bounce on her falsies.’ – in reference to a sex act.
- In August 2012, a French agent tabled a list of possible targets which Moody told Mackay: ‘he needs to rename his agency the All Blacks’. Another text says: ‘Not many white faces among that lot but worth considering.’
- A picture message was sent to a Cardiff employee with the title ‘Black Monopoly’, with every every square showing a ‘Go To Jail’ sign. A separate message says of an African player: ‘Doesn’t look like a good cv. And he’s Nigerian.’
Cardiff’s signings of Andreas Cornelius, John Brayford, Gary Medel and Peter Odemwingie in summer 2013 were part of a £50million outlay that owner Vincent Tan believes were over-inflated. Metro (UK)
