Commentator Martin Tyler has been spoken to by Sky Sports after an accusation of ‘racist’ comment made about Son Heung-min on Sunday.
Martin Tyler was criticised after making an alleged ‘racist comment’ about Son Heung Min while commentating on the Premier League match between Liverpool and Tottenham.
Son scored to bring the game back to 3-2 in the 13 remaining minutes. It was a dramatic match at Anfield. The hosts were 3-0 ahead within 15 minutes, but Tottenham stormed back. Son’s teammate Richarlison leveled the score in injury time before Diogo Jota scored to win it for The Reds.
Sky sports are copy striking all the videos of Martin Tyler comment about sonny. So here it is for y’all pic.twitter.com/31ofL0pBmc
— dahlia (@dahlia42069) April 30, 2023
Tyler sparked controversy during the match after Son fouled Liverpool’s Cody Gakpo. The South Korean pulled his opponent back when Gakpo was preparing to counterattack. He was then booked.
Tyler compared Son’s infraction to ‘martial arts’. Tyler, who is on Sky Sports’ mic for more than three decades, was quickly criticized on social media.
The 77-year old was forced to apologise last year after covering the Wales-Ukraine World Cup play-off match, in which he stated that away keeper Heorhiy Buschan would be required to “soldier on”. The comment was considered insensitive in light of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.
Back to the game at the weekend now and Liverpool leapfrogged Tottenham into fifth thanks to a 4-3 thriller; Spurs conceded three times in first 15 minutes to Curtis Jones, Luis Diaz and Mohamed Salah, with some fans in the away end walking out.
Spurs then levelled through Harry Kane, Heung-Min Son and Richarlison but Diogo Jota scored a last-gasp winner.
Player ratings (via Sky Sports)
Liverpool: Alisson (7); Alexander-Arnold (8), Konate (6), Van Dijk (6), Robertson (6); Fabinho (7), Elliott (7), Jones (8); Salah (7), Gakpo (8), Diaz (8)
Subs: Henderson (6), Jota (5), Nunez (6), Milner (6)
Tottenham: Forster (5); Romero (4), Dier (4), Davies (5): Porro (4), Hojbjerg (6), Skipp (7), Perisic (7); Son (8), Kane (8), Kulusevski (6)
Subs: Sarr (6), Richarlison (7), Moura (4), Danjuma (6)
Player of the match: Cody Gakpo (Liverpool)
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp to Match of the Day: “Super start in the game, outstanding start in the game. Top, top performance in all departments of football. How we played, how we pressed, how we counter-pressed, how we defended, how we reacted. 3-0 up, wow, what a game.
“First moment where we don’t defend properly the first line doesn’t react, the rest of the team is too deep, and all of a sudden we have a one-on-one in our box where Virgil van Dijk slips. You need to avoid a decision where it can be that situation.
“Second half the game is open because they started believing or kept believing. We opened the door for them and it looked like we pushed them through a little bit as well. The second goal they scored a situation that shouldn’t happen as well.
“The third goal, a tight set-piece in 92nd minute, always tricky. You want to avoid these kinds of set-pieces. But thank god, Diogo Jota saved us. That feels great.
“From a development point of view, a lot of things to love about that game and a lot of things not to like. That’s my life and the feeling is I like the good parts so much that my feeling is that we can sort the other stuff. Let’s keep going.”
On injuring his hamstring while celebrating Jota’s goal: “I’m not sure if it’s the hamstring it could be the adductor but I got punished. Little sins immediately. I turned around for the celebration because the fourth official got nothing wrong the whole time. I didn’t say anything bad, I gave a look which is bad enough. The hamstring or whatever the muscle gave up in that moment. That’s fair. Apart from that, all okay.”
On if Diogo Jota should have been sent off: “I understand that. Ryan [Mason] has to worry about other stuff. They’re such a good football team, Tottenham, they have to play better football. They can’t just counter-attack, they have to play better football with that team. Diogo Jota has the foot high but he’s not going for the head.
“I heard Oliver Skipp could’ve had a red card. Did he speak about that as well?”
On if Liverpool can reach the Champions League: “Of course not. If United and Newcastle wins all the games then how can we get there? If they start losing them we are close. Until then we have to win football games to qualify for Europe at all.
“Brighton played one of the best football games this weekend I’ve ever seen in my life, I have to say, Roberto De Zerbi, wow. They are behind us with two games in hand. Aston Villa are developing. If we can keep them behind us that will already be success.”
Interim Tottenham manager Ryan Mason speaking to MOTD: “Difficult to put into words, to give them three goals makes our task very difficult to win the game. We created the better chances and looked like scoring every time we had the ball.”
Asked about the slow start: “I don’t know at this time, If you’re not ready to start games with full intensity you’re going to concede goals and to be 3-0 down after that time is hard. The manner in which we concede the last goal makes it impossible to take. I need to speak to the players on that, we need to address it and do it quickly
“We know we’re a team that can hurt opposition and score goals against anybody. But ultimately you don’t win games just with the ball, you can’t concede 4 goals as a team and take more pride in keeping clean sheets.
“We should’ve scored more but to concede a goal in the last minute to a player that shouldn’t have been on the pitch is hard to take.”
Asked about a possible red card for Diogo Jota: “I need an explanation, I want to know why the referee on the pitch didn’t see it, but also why an experienced one in the VAR room can’t. It’s hard to justify how that isn’t a red card. It ticks all the boxes for dangerous play so it’s hard to understand why.
“There’s no positives right now because we’ve lost, there’s anger and disappointment.”
This is what fans said as Commentator Martin Tyler is spoken to by Sky Sports after an accusation of a ‘racist’ comment about Son…
@tjd__94: Example of people making a harmless unintended comment racist by making a point of it
@LongyWTID: Prepared to bet nobody from South Korea is offended by that
@WSpreadbury: Worlds gone soft
@timcabrelli: *Mental note Martial Arts is now racist
@dsully1981: I’m struggling to understand why anyone is offended by this…..
@BDD_LFC: He doesn’t need to take care, he needs to retire. Ruining so many good games with his nonchalant old man commentary.
@JnathanN: The only racism here is if you yourself associate the words “martial arts” with Asian people. Using it in the context as he did, isn’t racist at all.
@spairog: What’s racist about that? Lol the world has truly gone bonkers.
@JoeBristerr: Did I just hear Martin Tyler refer to Son’s tackle as ‘martial arts’ like? Are we not taking that as a racist comment? 🤔 @SkySportsPL @SkySportsNews
@taahir_p: If an English player fouled another player and then said “that was like a rugby tackle”. Would that be racist?
@Joshtalksball: as if Martin Tyler has just said ‘Martial arts’ instead of ‘Dark arts’ when referring to Son grabbing Gakpo’s shirt 😭😭😭
@SammyBoy23: Hope Martin Tyler gets pulled up for his racial slur towards Son.
@tugs081976: Martin Tyler hang your head in shame for that Son comment 😡😡😡😡 should be sacked
@LP_Quinns:
Kane pulls back Gakpo = Dark Arts
Son pulls back Gakpo = Martial Arts
Deary me Martin Tyler 😬
@HMarchy21: Wtf is this world coming to
@Flynny_97: Agreed. We should take further measures and permanently ban him from ever commentating again
@Markafc87: Wtf 😂 sorry if anyone thinks this was offensive you are just looking for it.
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