Boundy I am with you. This kid doesn't know the meaning of tired. I have no doubt Liverpool have told him to pull this one and i bet he lays on the weekend. I work 6 days and nights straight at the Brixton riots, for pennies in wages. No fuss, no sorry I can't face the rioters because I am tired. Players today are treated with kid gloves and have absolutely no bolloxs.
Footballers are pussies (except Roy Keane) they are nothing but overpaid wimps and should try a proper job for a living and try a wage that they earn in a year that they can earn in minutes......football has gone crazy and not worth supporting with your own money anymore....
Roy told stirling he was resting him nothing to do with the player who would have played anyway...football is a joke...
Dai all over the radio today it has said and woy in his interview said that Sterling came t o him and said he was to tired to plau or was woy not telling the truth in his interview.
We all saw roy telling stirling he was not playing and the look on stirlings face was enough. radio is all about whipping up a debate rather than the facts...
No, they don't pull out. They just don't go to the events in the first place. The Tennis calendar is well reported and documented as one of the most overcrowded calendars in Sport. Tennis players only have 1 month of off-season. The top players choose events at the start of the year that they will attend and scrap the rest. So you're statement that they "don't pull out because they are tired" is technically true, but the real truth is that Federer, Nadal and Djokovic pull out of tournaments before they get tired in order to try and prevent them from getting tired/injured in the first place - it also keeps them fresh to attack the bigger tournaments. So not much different to what Sterling has done then... Pulled out of low-key game to prevent injury/fatigue and focus his efforts on bigger games to come. No difference.
I'm sorry, but sport can never be compared to non-sport jobs. To compare a professional sport to that job is not comparable. I agree that players are treated to wages far above what they deserve, but even if they were on £1000 per week instead of £100,000 per week, they'd still not be able to play at the top of their game twice a week for a full season. Football is a game where, at the professional level, only 100% is good enough. If you lose 5% of your level/energy/whateveryouwannacallit, you stand out a mile. What's more, it's all in the public eye. If you have a crap game, you're in trouble. You're practically killed by the press for having a poor game if the paying fans in the stands haven't killed you already. It's not like working in Tesco and dropping a can of beans on the floor or working in an office and dropping the paperwork. It's not even like working as a project manager and not hitting your KPIs. You're not going to be publicly ruined for it. The aim of football is to play players at 100%. Not at 90%, 80% or even 99%. I wouldn't want the Swans playing players that aren't firing on all cylinders. So, Liverpool, as a business and having lost Sturridge for 2 months due to training with England while not 100%, would definitely want to think about protecting Sterling given that he's their asset. Just because us, as fans, think that we go to work tired, doesn't mean that we should want football players to play when they're tired. Think how rubbish football would be to watch if they were all knackered? No, football is entertainment for me as well. While certain players are the stars of the show, they are still human and require a rest every now and again to keep them at 100%, because 95% is not good enough.
Maybe he's patriotic and wanted to try and play, but after playing one match realised he's knackered? Maybe, maybe, maybe. There's loads of explanations for everything. Tell you what, shall I ask him next time I meet him for a pint?
Read Ashley Williams book and he contradicts nearly everything you say. Nearly every player is carrying some sort of knock at some time in a season and it is about wanting to play and not crying off because tou are tired. Championship is professional level as well I believe, Have a look how many games they play a season.
Why are you making idiotic comments like that. I asked the question which i believe is sensible enough. But you have to make a comment in an attempt to put somone down. Pathetic.
Fair enough, but that's from a players perspective, not the club/management/medical staff. I can understand that you should want to play even when you're tired. Depends on your squad, I guess. But the medical teams and managers will make decisions to leave players out when they are too depleted. Sterling, having sat out the majority of the game vs Estonia, will now probably have the energy to play for Liverpool on Saturday. It's unlikely that would have happened if he'd started yesterday.
Tongue in cheek. Down the pub, you'd have got the joke. On a forum, you took it more literally. My bad.
Right, I've said my part on this. No more from me. Have fun ranting about players wages and how they shouldn't be too tired to play with no further opposition Can't wait for the Swans game this weekend to give us something proper to debate about, rather than a 19 year old Englishman not playing for England...
I totally disagree with this statement due to the fact that over the last 10 years whilst working away I worked 10 hours a day, trained 4 times a week played 6 a side footbal twice a week and played 11 a side on a saturday and at the age of 39 could still turn up now and play. Footballers of today are put on such a pedestal that they are now starting to believe this tired crap. I have said for years that I reckon anyone with a bit of footballing brain could be turned into a pro footballer and I would give my rigjt arm to have had the luck of being picked. Doing something that we all love for a living tired my arse.
Don't forget they also now get an International break. And the likes of Sterling need it by the looks of things.
