I'm not painting him as a victim. He's a young lad with loads of money who snorted cocaine. I'm pleased your not supporting the criminal underworld and impressed that you've never bought a Rolling Stones record to help fund misery across the globe. Or music by any other artist that takes the odd snort. Jake Livermore screwed up, he'll pay the price by not playing for two years and possibly being sued by the Allams. Although that may depend on who else he took it with at City. Open court cases have a weird habit of shining a light on things best left covered.Cocaine abuse is fairly widespread as I found out at work and I wouldn't be surprised if it isn't the drug of choice for a number of footballers. Jake Livermore got caught the others haven't, yet. Its happened, I think he should be helped to sort his life out. Being angry with him isn't going to help him.
I agree, if he has had a problem, the club and his mates in the team should have known about it, he should have gone to Steve Bruce and told him. The suggestion came from Burnsy that there was a family problem. If however this is something that has gone on for ages and family problems are just a convenient hook to use as an excuse, there is nothing much that could be said to give him support.
Oright in hindsight, but 7 million, and we paid 1 million for Meyler, jeez. We've blown some money on some crap.
did any 1 see Jermaine jenas going on about all the problems in livermorelife ...was he saying that the ****ers been abusing the **** all this time ....might explain how ****e hes been this season ........
Or look at it the other way we got some bargins. here's another. Quinn joined Championship club Hull City on a three-year contract for an undisclosed fee on 31 August 2012. It was later revealed that Hull City would pay Sheffield United £2,000 per game for his first 50 games for City. Thats from Wiki so may be wrong
Good article on Frank. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...y-star-Chelsea-legend-eyes-new-start-MLS.html He is comfortable about the end of it all, he says. No regrets. He worked hard his whole career. He got the most from his talent. He didn't squander it. 'I'd have hated to have left anything on the table,' he says. 'I have seen it with young boys who had everything at their feet and let it go.' He says the uncompromising encouragement of his father, a West Ham legend, the love of his mother and a solid education meant that was never going to happen to him. He names a player who failed to fulfill his potential and remains tortured by what he lost. 'I would have dwelt on that, too, if it had happened to me,' he says. 'I'm sure they look back.'
The problem is that Bruce can't see when something is wrong and just keeps playing someone anyhow. They don't improve and he still continues playing them.
I couldn't agree more, Obadiah. There's a lot of sanctimonious twaddle being spouted about this. If confirmed, the lad made a stupid mistake & he will suffer the consequences, but it's not as if it was a performance enhancing drug. Let him who is innocent cast the first stone.
sorry if this has already been posted, the "sun" reporting that Sunderland and Newcastle are preparing to launch a legal bid to have city deducted points over the failed drug test of Jake Livermore, if somehow we escape relegation and one off them goes down.
Cool, that'll be fun. Playing the moral anti-drugs card in a desperate attempt to stay in the Premier League after a child rapist & groomer failed to do it for them.
I doubt Jake was stupid enough to take it just prior to or during a game, then again he was stupid enough to take it a day or two before it, but interesting article none the less. http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...rently-than-steroids-in-major-league-baseball
