Jim Davidson slammed over grim joke calling on women footballers to ‘lift their tops up’

Jim Davidson has been criticised after suggesting women footballers ‘lift their tops up’ while discussing emotions in football on GB News.

The comedian, 68, joined Dan Wootton on Thursday night to discuss recent remarks from Northern Ireland’s women’s manager, Kenny Shiels.

Shiels came under fire earlier this week for suggesting ‘women are more emotional than men’ after his team lost 5-0 to England. 

‘In the women’s game … when a team concedes a goal they concede a second within a very short period of time. Right through the women’s game, because girls and women are more emotional than men, so they take a goal going in not very well,’ he said.

He apologised a day later, after a meeting with the Irish FA, but many football fans were left unimpressed by the dated comments made. 

Davidson chatted over the issue alongside former England goalkeeper Peter Shilton and journalist Ella Whelan to the host.  

But he was blasted by Whelan during the segment for wanting women in the game to be ‘lifting up their tops.’

Davidson said: ’In the women’s game when a team concedes a goal they concede a second [goal] within a very short period of time. Right through the women’s game, because girls and women are more emotional than men, they [don’t take a goal going in] very well.’

Giving his thoughts on Shiels, he said: ’It’s all about this cancel culture, he said what he thought, his opinion.

‘It turns out the girls have spoken about emotional problems and mental problems on the pitch so he’s said something that has upset someone [who is] a bit woke and they’ve said: ‘You better go and apologise.

‘This is woke creeping in everywhere, let them girls get on. They’ve just been hammered 5-0.’

Then came the outrageous joke: ’Talking of emotion,