Me and my partner lost a baby too, but my thoughts were not directed at going and buying cocaine, it was about making sure she was ok and getting through it - but then again, I don't take 120k home a month so my mindset could be different
I'm sorry to hear that. Clearly people react to things different ways. He never looked into it this season so it was clearly effecting him on the field.
Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. So that rules out 99.99% of all on here. If what Jenas and Dawon know to be true ever comes out then many on here need massive amounts of humble pie.
It makes absolutely no difference what comes out, he's a professional football who ****ed his career for a good night out. You don't take coke due to personal problems, whatever those problems are, you take it to party.
Is there more to the Jake Livermore case? Just read between the lines The player in question was bought to our club in one window and sold in the next. with little football in between. Once he was sold, I took a call from a club official who was fishing for information. What did the players know? What had they heard? I told him that we just hadn’t taken to him. “Is that what the other players think, too?” he asked. “Yes,” I said. I didn’t want anything to do with it; it was far too close to home for me. He was happy to hear my explanation, even though I suspect he felt that I was lying to him. The whole thing came to a head later in the same season. We played against the player’s new club and it was perhaps the dirtiest game of football that I have ever been involved in. Simply because the truth had come out in the football world and the opposition manager was livid that he had been “played” in the transfer of the player. The game ended with an almighty scrap in the tunnel and was made worse by the fact that we had won the game in highly controversial circumstances after some favourable decisions from the officials. Though the player’s name never came out, I know that he regrets the trouble that his actions caused. It would have been hard for him to comprehend at the time that one line of cocaine taken in a nightclub cubicle could affect so many other people for years to come. But much of football is about reading between the lines. And Steve Bruce’s latest comments are an eye-opener in that respect. “Could we embark on doing it [drug testing] ourselves every week?” he asked after Hull’s 2-0 defeat to Tottenham at White Hart Lane on Saturday. “That might be a way forward.” That is an interesting line from Bruce because, in my head, it suggests that Hull’s problems in this respect may not end with Livermore. It alludes to a manager who, despite his best efforts, has had to deal with issues beyond his control and is keen to make his trials and tribulations loosely public. So where now for Hull and Livermore? Well, relegation looks an odds-on certainty for the club and that is one of the reasons why I think that they will extend an offer of “help” to their midfielder. There are few Championship clubs that can survive on parachute payments while writing off £8 million-worth of player. Don’t forget, Hull will have no insurance cover for this. There are some clubs that can’t even afford blanket cover for career-ending injuries to their playing staff, let alone added extras such as drug abuse. It is my hope that we now return to the barren years of drug exposes and, personally, I’m with Bruce. The closest thing to a clean game isn’t random testing, it is regular weekly testing. Such measures could certainly exist in the Premier League, where the money is there to support such a roll out in partnership with the FA and the testers. Perhaps both are frightened by what they will uncover. http://www.thesecretfootballer.com/...t-read-between-the-lines/#I8w3Bl2q1OYWklRW.99
Don't talk like a twat. He's been an integral part of our starting eleven in the vast majority of games this season, he's allegedly taken cocaine on at least one occasion, possibly more, and the likelihood is that his level of his performances will have dropped due to taking drugs. Is this the reason we have not seen the Livermore of last season? Is this largely the reason that we HAVE to win the game on Sunday and still hope for other results to go our way. Other than that he is in a position, many people are, my son included, whereby random drug testing takes place, and for that reason alone he's been idiotic taking a banned substance. My lad loves a beer or three but he would never dream of putting his employment at risk by even so much as having a drag on a spliff in Amsterdam let alone snorting cocaine! I have no sympathy, no matter what this yet to be disclosed excuse is going to be, I will not be eating any humble pie as my stance on this will not change. How about if an air traffic controller had done drugs and had been responsible for the loss of an aircraft along with hundreds of lives, some of them being your relatives, however you later discovered that some family tragedy had been instrumental in him/her going down the murky path of taking a banned substance. Would you still take the same stance? Humble pie? **** off!
I'm I reading this right, is it hinting that there's a problem with drug's at city and that it goes beyond Livermore.
No but it would undoubtedly explain away the performances of some of our players this season. Perhaps that's what he's basing his speculation on, I'm pretty certain that he's not alone in wondering.
And there you have it, this is the can of worm's that's been opened, every Tom,Dick, and Harry can now turn around and say there's a history of drug abuse at city.
Interesting article on Livermore. Sorry cannot post a link as can't be bothered to work out how to do it. Neanderthal or what?
The PFA commissioned a survey of their own players, an anonymous survey & over 50% of respondents (which in reality means probably many more didn't answer) said that either they had or knew team-mates who have or do use drugs recreationally or for performance enhancement ..... this is a very big problem where these sportsmen earn enough to feed their habit
