been reading the reports in the press about the high court injunction took out by a top prem playing regarding an affair with imogen thomas.the player is meant to be a family man and the sort of person who you would not expect to be involved in anything like this and his agent has turned round and said he is totally shocked by this.well in fridays daily mail they had a blanked out picture of the player but you can see his facial features and hair.i hope its not a real picture but one person sprang to mind,but i also really dont want to say who i think it is.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...junction-stop-paper-writing-private-life.html Lucas a "household name"? I doubt it. "Mr Justice Jack had rejected the newspaper's argument that there was a public interest in the articles, which he described as 'salacious details'." Amen to that. I'm sick of hearing from the media that footballers are role models. Charlie Brooker said recently if parents took journalists as role models, kids would grow up as phone-hacking, bin-raking, pun-writing Peeping Toms. How many parents are out knocking off others outside of the family home? How many non-football marriages end in divorce? No lower a percentage than footballers. Role models my arse.
Totally agree with that - the media just build footballers up as role models so they can knock them down harder when they mess up. How can footballer's be role models? Overpaid, over protected, temperamental, often under intelligent and very rarely work as hard as most people do. If journos had any sort of moral standards they'd be holding doctors and teachers up as role models, not footballers. But then when did morals ever sell a paper? That said, I still think it's wrong that all these footballers are trying to use the courts to hide their indiscretions. The justice system doesn't exist to cover up their stupidity... Btw, crazyhorse that blanked out picture just looks like stock footage. If whoever it is had a super injunction, the paper wouldn't risk using an actual blacked out photo in case the lawyers claimed they were trying to get round the injunction.
I wasn't surprised during the Rooney "Tart" fuss to find that 15% of UK men have been clients of prostitutes. That's one in seven. There are more than seven journalists on every newspaper's sportsdesk. I wasn't surprised because I know at least three blokes who have. It also amuses me when the "overpaid" allegation gets made by a lot of people who do the lottery every week hoping for an easy life without all the football stuff - leaving family at an early age, career-threatening injuries, travelling thousands of miles to sit on a bench and so on. Footballers have a nice life when they succeed but like musicians they take a risk going into it they wouldn't be taking going into a normal career at 17. And compared to how contracts used to be, it's good to see the ones who bring in the money receiving a decent share of it.
Likewise with drug allegations. I know a mate who works on the trading floor at Deutsche Bank, and according to him at least half his colleagues were snorting coke off their desks just to get through the 18 hour days. I know it's a cliche, but footballers just mirror the society that produces them, albeit in a more obvious manner. That's true, but then compare a footballer to a small business owner. No support, having to invest huge amounts of their own money just to stay afloat, working 60 hour weeks as standard, potentially being made personally bankrupt if the business fails and still often only receiving a small share of the money they create. And as the recent economy has shown, going into a normal career, particularly a specialised career, can also be full of risks. I agree that footballers need to get a decent share of the money they create, but I think the current situation has taken that too far. At most PL clubs, direct wages are anything between 50% and 80% of turnover, leaving the club itself with little to invest in facilities and development. And it increasingly seems that footballers don't look at their wages as fair reward for the money they create, but as some sort of competition to see who in the squad has the highest wages.
why? because these people who earn loads of money a week and we have kids (like mine) looking up to them should be setting a better example.
They get paid a lot of money to play football, no more no less. Who are you to say how they should live their lives when you don't even know them? Also do you really think people are that easily influenced that if a kid hears a story about a guy cheating on his wife that automatically means he will do it when he grows up? Only a complete idiot would do that. Moreover, when footballers sleep around they are not doing it right in front of little kids or even on camera, its the media's choice to make it known to people what they have been getting up to. I have no time for all this role model bollocks. The only fans who believe in it are just using it as an excuse to hate footballers because they can't take the fact that footballers earn a lot of money.
tbh people whine about unfair wage etc but its our interest in the game which earns them so much, if it bothers you then stop watching as for the cheating, drugs and hookers im pretty sure it happens in most work places however i do feel its a bit ****ty how imogen thomas has been taking a load of grief but the players identity is to be remained secret, stupid justice system...
Players are quite happy to portray themselves as role odels and are also quite happy for the media to hype them up. It works both ways. If I got to play football as a coreer I think I could manage to set a better example. Remember we pay their fking wages at the end of the day so we expect certain behaviour end of The people who pay my wages wouldn't accept that kind of behaviour we see. Footballer is also a job, a career, and like others you can't go around swearing at people and being a complete numpty or you get sacked. Why is this not the same for footballers. If you mess about outside of work it is fine, no probs, but if it gets into the media, you may get sacked as it makes the company look bad, clubs are too forgiving and this sets the bar too
And many players do set a good example. Do we judge you by the actions of bad parents setting a bad example? When I was a teen my role models were rock stars but I've never thrown a TV out of a window, never had sex with an underage teen and never stabbed my girlfriend while on a smack bender in a New York hotel. And I actually became a musician. How about movie stars? I'd rather have Lucas Leiva as a role model than Tom Cruise and Cruise makes much more money. Downey Jr went to jail then played Iron Man in a family movie. How about John Belushi? If I had kids I'd be playing them Belushi movies all the time, (especially 'Continental Divide' and 'Neighbors'). I wouldn't expect them to get a taste for speedballs from it. If you earned them millions I think you'd be surprised what they'd be prepared to put up with. I was sacked on a disputed charge of swearing so I know better than anybody. But the company's contract was worth millions so what were my chances? I was chattel, like a footballer to a club. But Rooney was punished for swearing; Liverpool got rid of El Hadji Diouf for his behaviour at Celtic. Football is a career if careers can last a decade and risk being ended in a split second by a competitor. The world's a dangerous and tricky place and grown-ups have some salacious behaviour, no matter how much they earn or how famous they are. I expect parents to be good role models who draw a distinction between good and bad behaviour, like my folks did to stop me popping off to the Chelsea hotel with Nancy Spungen.
This is what i disagree with. All you should expect from them is giving 100% effort during training sessions and matches, as long as they are looking after their bodies you have no right to say how they should live their life. Parents should be role models, not people they are never likely to meet.
Rio Ferdinand, Story came out the day his wife gave birth, papers keep putting stupid little stories about him getting angry with Balotelli, reason Capello dropped him as captain, also the reason the players were winding him up yesterday about it
Unfortunately this is not based in reality. I do my job and do it very well, but if I end up on the evening paper for something not good, I will most likely be sacked. Not saying they should be sacked, but it should be in their contracts that they can be for certain offences, but such is the power of players that aint gonna happen. Barton comitted sackable offences, Rio, debatable over the drug test avoidance. Not over family stories, like Gary Linekers brother being a hardy crim The media gives with one hand and takes away with the other, no player seems to mind it when BBC reports they played far better than they actually did, positive lies, but obviously hate it when negative truths come out.
