Tuesday 30 April 2013

Hunter fee back

        
  The PFA claim they briefed Hunter not to use such sensitive language, and will therefore seek a return of his fee because of breach of contract - verbal or written.If you were looking for a scenario of absolutely everything we wouldn't want on the night, I think you had a montage there.Bobby Barnes told The Daily Telegraph: "We are in discussions with our lawyer and our lawyer is in discussion with the London Speaker Bureau, who we booked him through."Instead, we're talking about a set that was totally inappropriate for our dinner and, more importantly, certainly not what we ordered.The PFA claim they booked Hunter on the back of several television appearances, apparently with no knowledge of the content of his usual act.Whatever he was paid was too much.PFA chairman Clarke Carlisle apologised for Hunter's act, and the organisation released a statement on Monday saying: "The PFA regrets the offence caused by the performance of Reginald D Hunter at last night's awards ceremony in London.We are obviously very upset, because he was briefed. We are very aware that very have a very diverse audience there. I was sat there with Jewish friends on my table as well, and it was as if he set out to upset everyone in the room one way or another.We share the strong disappointment felt by our diverse membership at the choice of language throughout his appearance.There were anti-Jewish jokes, there were anti-women jokes, there were anti-Irish jokes, there was the repeat use of the 'N' word.

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