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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Sport
Mike Hytner

Triple M host Marty Sheargold departs after being condemned for comparing Matildas to ‘year 10 girls’

Two women, one in foreground one in the background, on a soccer field in jerseys
The Matildas’ Caitlin Foord dribbles the ball past the US’s Korbin Albert during a 2025 SheBelieves Cup match. This week, Marty Sheargold asked on Triple M: ‘She believes in what? It better be men.’ Photograph: Chris Coduto/Getty Images

Triple M host Marty Sheargold is departing the network after being condemned for comments he made about the Matildas.

Sheargold, a broadcaster and comedian, said on his Drive show on Monday that he “would rather hammer a nail through the head of [his] penis” than watch Australia’s national women’s football team in next year’s Asian Cup. He also asked: “Got any men’s sport?”

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