Today's sendings -off: your opinion please. I mean, as a 'family man' you must have a view on Gaston's deliberate elbow in the face. Fortune's shove in the face - would that have hurt more than a bite on the shoulder that didn't break the skin? And what did you and Samantha think of a two-footed, off the ground lunge that could have ended a career? Hope you can counsel your kids if they saw that on the telly in the latest pub that you left them.
No, no, no, no, no! You have it all wrong. The players that got sent off have been dealt with and have their punishment lined up already. Suarez wasn't sent off, it is the incidents where a card (red or yellow) or ticking off wasn't applied during the game that matter, such as Tiote's stamp
Cameron wants to deal with MPs who get pissed up and lamp people in the HofC bar before he starts on footballers. The silver spoon mo' foo' .
The PM is a pathetic, whimpering fool who'll just hop onto bandwagons to try gain some support from people who wouldn't normally piss on him if he was on fire. Non of the incidents today involved big name players, there's unlikely to be any reporting in the media, so of course he'll toddle off and wait for some other bus to come along instead. Can't stand politicians. Always an agenda and never an opinion unless it's unrelated to their job.
But surely commenting about Suarez will lose him as many votes (if he had them in the first place that is) as he gains? Man Utd and Liverpool are the two most supported clubs in this country, by speaking out against one of them or their players he is annoying a hell of a lot of people.
If and when I have kids then I'd hope up bring them up knowing that football is a good game and you fall in love with it, but 99% of footballers are idiots and should never be role models. If you're kid's role model is someone who fails at school, has very little commong sense and has no skills outside of football then you're bringing your kids up wrong in my opinion. Most kids look up to their dad, but if you're going to leave you're kid in a pub when you go home and forget about them I guess you've got to find someone else to look up to
I agree with what you are saying but kids will always look up to more than just their dad and in some cases, they won't look up to their dad anyway. For example, my dad was always around, he provided the money for the family to live and have regular annual holidays etc, we wasn't poor but nor were we flash rich batards either. In a sense, he was a very good role model for me and my brother. However, we liked different things. He was always into his cars and motorbikes. He used be grass track racer, go out on his bike and go to race meetings etc, more often than not me and/or my brother went along with him to the latter, the whole family went to the former. But, he hates football and as never been the biggest socialiser, two things me and my brother are very big on. In short, I used to idolise footballers as a kid but, like most on here, I know most are immoral knobheads now.
No ****er elected me, I have no right to intervene like that.I gave you life, you can do whatever the **** you want with it. Do a good job, you will be rewarded in death. We have holographic TVs, a free bar and an all star football league. If you **** up, Satan awaits. He is a sexual devialt who likes to watch men get buggered by ten foot fire breathing demons while mama Cass sings in the background.
No ****er elected me, I have no right to intervene like that.I gave you life, you can do whatever the **** you want with it. Do a good job, you will be rewarded in death. We have holographic TVs, a free bar and an all star football league. If you **** up, Satan awaits. He is a sexual devialt who likes to watch men get buggered by ten foot fire breathing demons while mama Cass sings in the background.
misguided at best, there are far far more people who have an opinion on the whole affair that support neither club. Millions more! The **** pandered to those
You really think anyone will change their vote based on the club they support?! I doubt any Utd or Everton supporting Labour voters will suddenly go "Right, he's laid into Suarez, I'm voting Tory from now on"? Or Liverpool supporting Tories (there must be some out there ) will suddenly turn socialist? I don't personally think it's a case of pandering to anyone, it's just his effort to appear more like a normal person, rather than a detached politician. "I'm just like you. I like football as well as polo. I have kids and worry about what they see on TV. I love pasties. Call me Dave" etc.
As much as I despise Abu Dhabi Oli (Holt), he did a great piece earlier this week following DC's comments. He basically said 'you should be your child's role model, not someone else' and I whole heartedly agree. I don't my son looking at anyone else thinking their better for them than me! Our kids become what we teach them, I don't get everything right but I've certainly never left my lad in a pub!
It wouldn't change someone's vote to another party. But it might stop them voting Tory in the next election. Because I don't think people's political beliefs are as strong today as they were say 20/30 years ago.
Do you know that column that Graham Poll does in the Mail, sort of "You are the referee" theme? What if "Call me" Dave did one which is a mix of being PM and a referee? You know, "Your macro-economic policy of embracing Friedman/Hayek's belief of controlling public spending and deficit and lowering taxes is having the negative effects for growth and stability, as predicted by Keynes. Do you a) increase public spending to stimulate private spending and confidence. b) Lower the rate of VAT, corporation tax and fuel duty. c) Check the Daily Mail for whatever populist story is in the headlines this week and jump enthusiastically on that bandwagon as there's the added bonus of Scouse-bashing on this week's moral dilemma. d) Get pissed in your local and drive home without the kids?
I went to my first match at the tender age of six. I watched footballers kick lumps out of each other egged on by an overheated foul-mouthed crowd. It didn't make me want to emulate any of them except in the sense of playing the game, and it certainly didn't start me calling people a ****ing ****er (that came later ). How many kids are going to see Suarez bite Ivanovic and think "that seems like a good idea"? If footballers are role models it's an expectation that's been thrust upon them by others, based on nothing more than the game's popularity. I'm sure not many footballers see themselves like that, they just want to play football, and get absurdly rich in the process. Quite frankly, I think it's a wonder any of us grow up relatively sane anyway, considering the type of imagery we're constantly bombarded with. From brainless, so called celebrities and moronic "reality" shows to films that seem to think dismemberment and torture are forms of entertainment, it's amazing kids have any values at all. Politicians should be leaders, and therefore they should be role models, but look at the sad crowd of venal, mendacious, self-serving charlatans we actually have. How dare they criticise others for not being bloody saints? I feel better now for getting that out.
I tell thee, if people's kids watch something like that and goes off and bites someone as a result, it's time for them to stop allowing TV raise their kids
