http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/football/73133933/exl...
"It's false, completely false. I defy anyone to say that I am a racist with the number of black players I had the chance to work with. (Eric) Abidal, (Alou) Diarra, (Michael) Essien and so many others, you ask them."
This seems to be the oft-trotted out line of defence (see Wheelan comment above). I'm sure people like Leggy would see that as a water-tight argument but do other people really think like that?
Replace the word "racist' with "sexist" and then substitute women's names for the players. Does that sound OK as well?
How would you defend an accusation of being called racist?
Edit: and if you changed racist to sexist I would say its also a very valid comment. He is basically saying speak to others to find out instead of taking 1 persons comments as fact.
So If someone called me sexist and I said, I'm not, ask all of the women I work with and work for me, thats me saying check with more than 1 person before drawing such a strong conclusion.