If I had the opportunity to not play football for £100k a week or play football for 50k or 70k or whatever it would have been then it's football for me every time. It's completely incomparable to us mere plebs on normal salaries.
Wats, thats because us mere plebs see it as an honour and not just a job. Im sure the novelty would wear off if you'd bee doing it for the past 25years at top level and it was just the norm. The only thing i could compare it to is emigrating (stay with me here). When you go on your holidsay to Benidorm or greece (Australia) or where ever, you always think "god it would be great to live here like this". When you do finally do it, then reality kicks in and the novelty soon wears off. Yes its better than what you had but you still HAVE to work, Have to pay bills, HAVE to eat etc..... I just becomes very much the same.! Now, playing footbal for a living would be great and i think most of us wish we could, but once it became a chore i dont think any of us would take a pay cut. Quite simply, Its a job, thats it ! All this badge kissing, one club bollox is long gone. Im sure there are a few people who play and appreciate what they have, but in my experience, footballers are generally arogant arseholes who think the suns shines out of thier Arris. Thats just the ones I've met though.
Hi Queens...the support is being generated by the Help for Heroes campaign. They show the devastating injuries the troops are sustaining...this and the regular funeral cortege s that go through places like Oxford...at one stage we had them every Tuesday.... There is incredible support for the army... I run a charity quiz for Help for Heroes last year we made 2000 quid, practically with no effort at all. With due respect Queens you are not here to feel the undercurrent of support
Beth i accept that there is a lot of support for our "heroes" from large parts of the nation. cetain political groupd (BNP, Britain first etc) have also tied it in with their agenda to add to the support they get (just look at their facebook pages for proof). there are however still large communities who dont support them and you have to remember that I hail from Southall so my community is probably slightly different to the white middle class ones (no offence intended there). Im not trying to play the race card or anything like that but i suggest if you tried your charity night in Southall high St, you may not get the same positive responses. Oxford really is a very different place. Also has everyone forgotten that i was in London for 8 days barely a month ago? Anyway Beth, whilst Im sure you are indeed correct, I'll simply repeat what I have been saying all along. I guess we mix in different circles PS- Just for the record- im fully behind all our servicemen and women including the Fire brigade and ambulances etc. Coppers how-ever are a different story. Quite simplty a product of their own corruption...but thats for another day
everyone hates coppers right up to the time they need them honestly don't know how they do the job not a job I would choose dosent sound like its something you would do either
Don't want to side-track this one at all, but can I just add a shout here for the Royal British Legion, a somewhat 'unfashionable' charity that picks up the pieces when H4H stops. the RBL provides LIFELONG care, something that H4H doesn't and can't do. I'm not saying that they aren't a worthy charity to support, but RBL funds have been hit by the somewhat trendier marketing of H4H, and so I would urge anybody thinking of donating to give the money to RBL, whose work goes on quietly and selflessly in the background and who care for our injured and retired servicemen and women for the rest of their lives, not just for the initial 12 months. OK, you can go back to Green v Cesar now...
Betty says she works for HFH and raised two grand at her last event and you respond to her post by telling everyone to go support someone else! Not very tasteful IMO but I'll leave it there.
Oh for pitys sake, do you sit there waiting for me to say something, so you can twist it? I really give up with you, you're never going to change, are you? Read my entire post, including the but where I say that H4H is 'a very worthwhile charity'. Then back up your 'bad taste comment. Fricking chelsea-supporting troll.....
awjm, A lot of anger out there ??? No idea why ?? {Tries to get thread back on track} Looking forward to seeing Green re-establishing himself in the EPL. We are certainly going to need an epic season from him.
Green is our keeper lads move on ... He done brilliantly last year and Cesar was frozen out as his contract must have been linked to appearances?. Money of course it's wrong and in the UK it never goes to the deserved does it? ... I am just also a hypocrite like everyone else ... I get paid well in London and then **** off to France to escape because it all stinks. Why don't the services get paid well? ... because no one really cares and the couldn't organise a decent protest if they tried ... so far are they brainwashed. If Rob Green is earning too much then someone break his leg ... Roger Blue, Mike Black or Simply Red would soon step into his shoes no problem whatsoever I agree there is support by the general public for our armed forces but it's very misguided IMO. I believe that the funds have to be made before and after any conflict and not any charity in a very corrupt system I am in no way putting down the great work done by these charity organisations ... there simply shouldn't be any need for them IMO Stick on a few % to the rich tax that would cover a lot more than charity can munster plus anyone understand how much the tax benefits/breaks and PR is worth? In a country that manufactures War around the globe people should think a lot smarter than they do I am the only one in my family not to enter the forces or Police etc ... I now today eventually that I have the respect of all my cousins that I didn't enter and warned against how they would be treated ... I was proven right. The latest Trevor is due out to retire at 40 having done 3 tours of Afghanistan. He doesn't consider himself as a hero more like a pawn as all my family has now learnt. This country has a lot to answer for IMO ... it makes my blood boil
It's always worth remembering the forces do get to chose where they fight. That's down to the politicians and we all know what a bunch of **** ups they are. I'd suggest that to be prime minister one must have spent at least 3 years in the services or forces but it would never happen.
Green right sort? Sort of what? ( I prefer a PL quality Keeper myself and Green wasn't last time we were there. Maybe he is better now maybe not. I hope we have Cesar or someone of his sort to at the least keep Green on his toes.
I love the beauty of this wonderful country and the fishing of course I have massive problems accepting modern English culture in general
Sorry mate, i have a very valid reason to dislike the police, and the only reason I've ever needed them is because my insurance company said so when my car was nicked. You are entitlled to your opinion but i have a deep dislike for them personally. There job is only so difficult because they made it that way. If they werent so f-ing corrupt in the past then maybe they would have the help and respect of the public. Their own abuse of power has come back to haunt them. Just kmy opinion though Anyway...I love rob Green too....
