A non-soccer sports pundit with no qualifications in psychiatry or psychology publicly stated the following a few days ago apparently about a well known former PL player. Who do you think he is talking about? You have just one guess and don't look up on the Net. PS: I am not saying the guy is right or wrong in his analysis. âIt always amuses me to hear soccer players described as role models. They are nothing of the kind. _______?______ is just, you know he is interesting and for the media it is fantastic, itâs like having a soccer-coaching Kardashian.â ____?____ will never be a leader, he couldnât be a military leader for example. â____?____brings huge interest wherever he goes but I think he will fail wherever he goes as a manager because he doesnât have any of the emotional intelligence that is required. âI would imagine that he has all sorts of deep-seated psychological issues that have never been dealt with. He seems to have an addictive personality. As a soccer player, he was just a freelance soccer player, all he had to do was play soccer and he was brilliant at that of course and he burned so brightly. But then he reaches the age of 35 and because he has never had to change or think about himself, he has never done that and his personality is absolutely set in stone. You see barristers like that as well, they are freelance and they come to court and you hear people âoh here he is now this is fantasticâ and they make fortunes of money and they live in a bubble. They retire at the age of 70 and they are as undeveloped in the inner life as when they were 18. If youâve got ________?_______, itâs a bit of fun, itâs showbiz and all of that. You know people laugh at the guy, I think itâs pathetic. I must say in general I think itâs pathetic.â He does not know ____?_______ personally. âI can see what his behaviours are, his public behaviours, he reacts to confrontation: âwell Iâll punch you in the faceâ. His towering rages, the way be behaves, the constant craving for publicity. I mean the guy would walk over crushed glass to get to him. I see loads of people like him, loads of people like him coming through the court service all the time. They get counselling, they get all sorts of help. With ____?____ it is different and in a way what has happened is in truth, because he was a great footballer and all of that - he has just become a figure of fun. âPeople say âah thatâs fantastic did you see what he did yesterdayâ and everyone plays up to it and he has to act the clown when he is in press conferences etc because he is completely unreconstructed. âI must say I feel sorry for the fellah. Maybe thatâs wrong, maybe he doesnât feel in the slightest bit troubled, maybe itâs an act. Maybe all that volcanic stuff that stems around that is just an act. âBut it seems to me itâs a guy with serious inner turmoil.â
I thought that at one point but the 'rage' and volcanic' descriptions don't match Bullard's personality.
Brilliant player, has rages, often in the media as a result of confrontation, two books in which he boasts about his toughness and slags off contempories combined with lack of success and quitting as a manager (twice) ... it has to be Roy Keane.
vinnie jones? the writer is right though - some never grow up or develop because the environment they find themselves in doesn't require it.
