I know it won't be everyone's cup of tea on here, but Danny Simpson and Joey Barton are on TFFS on Sky Sports 1 tonight at 10pm.
Swords will not like seeing TFFS, it confuses him For your information Swords, TFFS does not stand for Tony Fernandes ****s Sheep
Oh god..they are not letting Joey open his mouth again please.... Does he still have that French accent then?
I've just watched it and although what he said was true, this has been the case with football for a long time. It's the individuals who have the self belief and application who can get beyond this stage that have a chance of making it. When I worked at the club, we had dropped into the third tier. You had players bowling around giving it Charlie big potatoes even though they weren't anywhere near the first team. Can't remember their names and haven't heard from them since. I remember reading Roy Keane's autobiography. When he eventually made it he couldn't believe the attitude of the young players in the Forest dressing room who thought that they had made it and were giving it the large one. They soon fell from grace, and were no where to be seen within a couple of seasons.
Probably Baidoo, Bailey and more recently German. He was thrown out because he refused to clean boots again after making 4 or 5 apps. They all get their 1st contract of maybe a couple of grand a week and then they turn into billy big bollocks and are never heard of again outside non league grounds. I know first hand things have changed now.
QPR midfielder Joey Barton talked about the pressure of being a highly-paid footballer on the Footballers' Football Show. please log in to view this image Barton started out as a youth player with Manchester City before breaking into the first team in 2002. "I'd been released by Everton at 14," said Barton. "Told I was too small but I signed for Manchester City the next day. "I got to 16 or 17 and they were really unsure about me, up to the point where they just barely gave me a YTS. "So I was on about £140 a week for the first two years of being a professional footballer. "I went from being on 140 quid a week, to six grand a week, just like that," said Barton clicking his fingers. "And nobody told me what to do with it. "A year later, I signed a new improved deal which blew that out of the water, I was 20 years of age. "I had gone from being just 18 and on £140 a week, to 20 and on extortionate amounts a week. No-one ever came to me and said this is how you deal with it, this is how you cope with it and this is what you should do with it. " The 31-year-old has experienced highs and lows on and off the field throughout his career, with the lowest point a prison sentence for assault in 2008. "I knew six months before I was going to jail," added Barton. "It was really tough, but you have to accept the consequences. "I always remember it, sitting in the dressing room at Newcastle and the lads were saying I'm going to Dubai and I'm going to LA... and I'm thinking I'm going to Strangeways or Walton - this is not going to be a great summer."
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Ahh so you think it was more a general assertion on the state of youth football in Britain? I was worried it was specifically a sleight on the QPR youth! Most of ours seem to have been sent out on loan now. If I were Hitchcock or Ehmer, my hunger might start to dissipate when the likes of Chevanton/Onyewu are shipped in at short notice. I never knew you worked at the club nines! I thought those matchday threads were suspiciously slick..! Btw, here's the downloadable audio from the show: http://www.skysports.com/podcast
Cheers Grif, I only worked their as one of the Fire Officers. It had nothing to do with the day to day football side of things. It was 98-02, Gerry Francis was the manager at the time and then Ian Holloway. It was interesting to see behind the scenes. It was just a shame it happened to be during one of our bleakest periods. We also went into administration during my time there, not a nice experience. I think Danny Simpson did say that it wasn't exclusive to QPR in his preamble leading into the subject. I think it was pointed out by Barton that for the younger players it's more of a lifestyle choice. So yes in essence ' it was more of a general assertation on the state of youth football in Britain,' as you so well put it.
