Marc White: Dorking Wanderers boss given six-game touchline ban for sexist comment

Dorking Wanderers owner and manager Marc White has been given a six-match touchline ban for a comment he made on a podcast about women.

White has been given the punishment for a remark he made before his side’s 3-1 defeat against Weston-super-Mare last season – his 1,000th game in charge of the club.

Speaking to the Under the Cosh podcast before the National League South fixture, in reference to his disciplinary record he said: “More women refs now, so you have to pay a bit more respect, do you know what I mean?

“You have to pay a bit more respect, like help them park.”

The Football Association charged White in May, external with using insulting or abusive words in the interview, describing it as an “aggravated breach” of the rules due to the reference it contained to gender.

White will now be banned from the touchline for the first six matches of Dorking’s National League South season, the club said., external

“Following (intended fun) comments made on a podcast regarding women drivers, first team manager Marc White has received a six-game touchline suspension to be served from the beginning of the league season,” the club posted on their X account.

White has become one of the most recognisable faces in non-league football since the club’s formation in 1999 and has been a loud and often controversial character.

In the Under the Cosh interview he claimed he had been banned from 12 stadiums.

Dorking finished sixth in National League South last season and lost 4-3 to Boreham Wood in play-offs.