You have to laugh. 'Big Ron Atkinson' was given an entire programme to explain away an off-air 'racial' slur about ex-Chelsea and France defender Marcel Desailly. It was funny watching him dig himself into an even bigger hole.
Ron’s lazy Nigger jibe, came after Chelsea lost in the first leg of last season's Champion’s League semi-final. He's since been excluded as a TV footie pundit.
Of course the programme was designed to show that Big isn’t a racist – but who really cares? It just proved he's stuck in a timewarp. 
If someone said to me Heinrich Himmler didn't really hate Jews I'd be loathed to listen to that argument as would the relatives of six million and more of his victims, Jewish or not. What's done is done and as Ron proved, it can't be undone.
Big Ron should've claimed to have been the victim of the English language, which like English cooking, is so bland it’s hard to understand what’s really meant by what’s said. Our society is very tolerant and typifies the best of British attitudes – never saying what it really means.
Someone once said, ‘ an American will call you Nigger to your face, but a Brit will think it and never say it’. Well not to your face, and unless you're Big Ron most certainly not while the studio microphone is on.
Big Ron is funny and entertaining with a comedy tan. He’s been praised for bringing along Black football legends; Brendan Batson, Laurie Cunningham and Cyrille Regis, but again, so what!
Still, that’s no excuse or justification for using a racial slur, and getting the thumbs up from the likes of Carlton Palmer - a man who based on skill, talent and looks should never have played international football.
Black Hat says forget Ron and the BBC vehicle and Channel Five's John Barnes for allowing him back onto telly at our expense.
You can’t kick racism out of football, just like you can’t stop long established corporations, companies, institutions and ‘Simple-Simon’ broadcasters like Sky’s Frank McLintock from being who they are and saying what they really think.
So if you harbour racist views and thoughts, or you’re an employer who’d rather not employ Black people, we think it would be better for everyone if you were just allowed to say so.  
Stop the tip-toeing around the politically correct bush. Get Big Ron back on telly now, even if he is stuck in some post-war dark age where Black people are still 'darkies' or nicknamed 'chalkie'.
Big Ron and Frank got it right, and by their example either a load of people should quit their jobs or just say what they really think. we don't see either happening so what is the point of this exercise or Ron Atkinson's small screen exile?
There is none. It just means other will think carefully about what they say, but what they think and believe in their hearts, alas we'll never really know. BH