Was just watching match of the day on my sky + and saw Rooney playing against his boyhood club and the club his whole family supports and although he didn't score it got me to thinking if you were a professional footballer playing for a club other than southampton and you had to play against us would you be able to actually score against us? My own personal view is no way could i score against the team i love,don't think my body,mind or heart would actually allow it haha.I know this is a silly thread but it's a slow Sunday and i thought it would be interesting to see your views.
Haha i admire your courage,think i'd have to have it wrote in my contract that i wouldn't play the Saints.
I could, but whether I would want to or not is another matter - maybe not the winner? a consolation goal will do me!
Id score against Saints then hack one of the Saints players out in the box in the final min so they can equalise.
Footballers live with this conundrum their whole working life. It's the job and they want their present team to win, but most tone down the celebrations. I remember a game (though not the player) where a player had just left Arsenal. He was running on goal looked up and passed it straight to an Arsenal player, because he had temporarily forgotten he'd left.
I was a child and saw it on the TV (yes, they did have tv when I was young!). I remember the commentator remarking how the player so clearly passed the ball to the opposition and had forgotten he'd left Arsenal. The story was interesting enough for me to remember it, but not the name of the player.
Plenty of players score against their old favourite clubs, never mind the ones thet supported as a kid. They just don't celebrate the goal. I'd do the same, if I was a professional footballer. Now if you suggested that the goal I scored would almost certainly relegate my old team, and possibly put them out of business as a result, then that's when it becomes properly difficult.
Not bull**** at all. Just because you can't imagine it, doesn't mean it can't happen. I remember something like that happening. It might have been Ray Kennedy, but it might have been an earlier era.
If I were good enough to play & score against the Saints, I'd do my best to play for them. Even if it meant being a bit part player & warming the bench.
In truth guys you cannot sherk your responsibilities. If that is your job you do it...that is what being a professional is all about. If you score a goal you score thats it you maybe wouldn't over do the celibration. Most teams/fans would still respect you for your actions.
I'd hate to score against them, but you'd want to do well for yourself, so I guess I would. If I was good enough to play in a competitive game against Saints, I'd let my contract run out or request a transfer at whatever club I was at so I could go and play FOR Saints. I'd tell the media that I'd be happy to take a large wage cut to play for Saints, and then Cortese would happily sign me up. Problem solved.
I read a statistic online somewhere which said that around 3% of the population are actually "good" at their jobs. As in the other 97% do the bare minimum required to actually keep the job. Seems most professionals actually can shirk their responsibilities.
