they have brought in help for the players now days to cope with life after football, sadly bit late for a lot of them, but feck me £20 mill, ridiculous, look after it properly and can set you up for life. i could probably retire on a quarter of that and make it last a lifetime, admittedly not brought up the same, but i don't have much sympathy for people who have had more money and squandered it than most will ever see in a lifetime.
And neither should you, as they've had an opportunity that most can only dream of and they've royally ****ed it up. They deserve no sympathy at all.
As an accountant cant really see how it would be our fault all we do is calculate his figures and suggest ways to lower there tax bills. We are not allowed to give financial advice that needs to be done by a financial advisor. And if they had no business or anything most of there income would be taxed already and the problem would be spending more then were making.
Bad news and good news. Bad news: David James has no money. Good news: Hairdressers up and down the UK are now wealthy.
Some of you really are right pieces of work! Somebody is in financial trouble and has hit rock bottom and all you can do is stick the boot in. Hope your proud of yourselves. Would you do the same if it was your brother or your best mate?
Can't speak for others on here, but if a loved one of mine had earned millions in a 15ish year career and still has decent earnings currently doing tv-spots, yet ended up bankrupt, I would find it hard to be sympathetic. And even if I were sympathetic, because it being a friend/family member, I would definitely feel envious anger towards them.
I know a fella who had the lot, lovely wife, family, cars, houses, blah, blah & he spunked the lot in 18 months gambling. Literally, the lot and we're talking a couple of £m. Did I feel sorry for him? No, not one iota of pity - his wife and family, was a different matter, but he was a total idiot.
It's alright mate he's just mounted his Friday afternoon high horse and is riding it to the moral high ground. He'll fall off it again shortly, probably when he calls me a **** for posting this
Putting in perspective, he still has a leg up on the rest of us on here. He's only 43- plenty of time to turn things around. As a C list celebrity nowadays, he can earn £30,000 per public speech. That's how much my old university used to spend on a speaker- and they had people a lot less famous than Mr. James. come by. I'm sure if he didn't mind working- he could get gigs in the media and put himself by much more comfortably than you or I. Then we're ignoring book deals, etc. He could come an ambassador for a brand. Or he could get a real job- in a real office. He may not have work-experience... but you better believe in some offices the person hiring would leap at signing David James over a regular bloke. He may not have as much money as he once had- but even bankrupt I guarantee he lives a more lavish lifestyle than any of us- and will continue to have a lavish life moreso than any of us... and if he doesn't, it's not because he doesn't have the opportunity- because he has the opportunity to as long as he's willing to do work.
It may well be his fault. I don't know and neither do you. I would suspect that Tobes came close to it earlier. But I do feel that he deserves just a little "milk of human kindness" even if he was the reason for his own downfall.
Used to be common here when video poker was legal in this state. Had a friend whose father had a good job- but she grew up close to poverty because he would do video poker every day after work. Gambling is illegal here- but because of some loop-hole video poker wasn't for a while. (they closed that loop hole about a decade ago). There is of course one legal form of gambling. The lottery... and that's because the government gets the money from that... speaking of which... pots over $135million at the moment... I may go pay the 'idiot tax' on my way home and buy a couple of tickets.
It's not a moral high ground and I'm certainly not on any horse - high or otherwise. Just forwarding a view with the same vigour that others are forwarding theirs. If others don't like it or don't agree - tough ****!
The bloke I know, managed to burn his cash on high stakes on line slots ffs. He was playing a £75 a spin game in the mistaken belief that it worked like a 'machine' i.e. At a set payout level. However, he didn't realise that every spin is like the first, as it's being played simultaneously by people all over the globe.
I don't really know the circumstances which have led to this, but, if it is his own fault through stupidity and/or greed then I have little sympathy for him. This isn't the same as putting the boot in- I'm not crowing over it- but I've said so many times that footballers earn far too much money and many of them have no concept of how privileged, and plain bloody lucky, they are. I will say in mitigation that a large part of the blame must be placed on a culture which throws money at young men, often from poor-ish backgrounds, with no idea how to handle their new-found wealth and status, just because they can kick a ball better than most. It then makes "stars" out of them and tells them they're worth it, and that must be easy to let yourself believe.
