531b. Eni Aluko Just Got CANCELED: Why I Blocked Her Number

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Andrew Gold

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🗓️ 30 April 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Eni Aluko was the darling of the woke establishment—until one comment about Ian Wright brought it all crashing down. After our explosive debate on Heretics, she sent me a barrage of private messages, revealing far more than she intended. What started as a polite disagreement became one of the most controversial moments in sports punditry. Why was Eni really forced out of the Women’s Football Awards? Why did the media turn on one of their own? And how did she become the target of the very outrage culture she once championed? In this video, I break down: - The viral moment that got Eni cancelled - Her private messages to me—and what they reveal - Why her comment about Ian Wright was the wrong target at the wrong time - The silent rebellion inside football against woke orthodoxy - What this saga tells us about race, gender, and power in modern media This is more than a media scandal—it's a story about identity, hypocrisy, and the fragile rules of the woke game. And for once, Eni Aluko wasn’t holding the cards. 👇 Watch to the end for my unfiltered take—and don’t forget to subscribe for more fearless content from Heretics. #EniAluko#CancelCulture#WokeSports 0:00 Who is Eni Aluko? 1:20 Why I had to block Eni Aluko 2:35 What I like about Eni Aluko 3:15 Why football players are secretly anti-woke 4:05 Gary Lineker is a Pariah 4:40 What Eni Said About Ian Wright on the BBC 5:20 Ian Wright REFUSED to Accept Her Apology 6:20 What is Really Going On! 7:20 Peak Woke Ending? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:13.2	After comments she made online about a fellow professional, I'm going to get into that and into
1:17.6	some of the background about that that isn't well known or about any aluco.
1:21.9	But firstly, let me just say there's something I very much like about her.
1:24.7	You'll remember her as the person, interviewee that I interviewed over a year ago now, I think. And it just made waves around the internet. It got four, 500, 400,000 views on YouTube. It got Twitter over a million, a couple of different times. So people really remember heretics actually for that episode because she was brave enough
1:45.3	to come on and have a real go about DEI from the woke side. And we had this big sort of argument
1:51.7	back and forward while remaining professional. So who's any Aluco? Look, there's one thing I quite
1:57.2	like about her. I will get into that. She's the commentator and importantly by her reckoning, a black woman who has been forced now to quit the women's football awards after a comment about a fellow pundit. After I sparred with her in my most fiery debate on heretics, we continue to send one another private messages. Well, she sent me messages, a lot of them. I'd be on holiday, my phone,
2:18.6	and my wife would ask, is that any again? After that, after that, that's not to absolve myself
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