O/T Heroes and Villains

[Andy_Faber]

on the football front, Colleymore and Carracher have gone crackers at LFC, over suspending staff, to claim money off the government.
https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/liv...153533974.html

So these footballers, on all their monstrous pay, won't drop a bean. Yet the tax payer has to subsidise the working plebs.
It isn't just them either.

Burnley are claiming they will go bust in August, if games don't resume.
The monster of over paid footballers has really raised its head now. Maybe a revolution is coming?

Pretty puke inducing throughout. just reinforces my long standing low opinion of pro football

[Trickytreesreds]

Pretty puke inducing throughout. just reinforces my long standing low opinion of pro football

I quite agree Andy.
My son plays amateur football at a decent level. Yet they scrap and scrape for every penny they can to survive and play the game as well as they can.
Pro footballers today, think the real world doesn't involve them.
If they aren't messing about with women/crashing super cars/behaving like kids/ they are refusing to give ny helping hand if they can.
Not all of them I agree, but the majority.
One of the reasons I have never gone to a testimonial unless I know it's for charity.

[Andy_Faber]

I quite agree Andy.
My son plays amateur football at a decent level. Yet they scrap and scrape for every penny they can to survive and play the game as well as they can.
Pro footballers today, think the real world doesn't involve them.
If they aren't messing about with women/crashing super cars/behaving like kids/ they are refusing to give ny helping hand if they can.
Not all of them I agree, but the majority.
One of the reasons I have never gone to a testimonial unless I know it's for charity.

What really racks me off is that they are the role models/heros/icons of future generations. RA will maybe point out that the likes of Reece Mogg are bigger 'crooks' and thats as may be but he and his ilk aren't also role models. Derby missed a trick by not sacking our villains earlier in the year, likewise Villa and Grealish, but money, and the asset value of these players, talks. There are no clean hands.

[ramAnag]

What really racks me off is that they are the role models/heros/icons of future generations. RA will maybe point out that the likes of Reece Mogg are bigger 'crooks' and thats as may be but he and his ilk aren't also role models. Derby missed a trick by not sacking our villains earlier in the year, likewise Villa and Grealish, but money, and the asset value of these players, talks. There are no clean hands.

Don’t think I’ve ever called Rees-Mogg a ‘crook’, Andy. For what it’s worth I think he’s an over privileged, arrogant, hypocritical, anachronistic ****** but any comparison between him and modern day footballers is, imo, meaningless...like comparing apples and oranges.

Don’t want to go over old ground but I think it’s naive to think that we could, legally, have sacked our wrongdoers from last September on the basis that their wrong-doing had nothing to do with their employment and didn’t prevent them from continuing to work. The same is probably true of Villa and Grealish, Liverpool and Firmino or Everton and Rooney.

Rees-Mogg may not be a role model (although he’s possibly one of MoP’s ) but he is sadly a rule maker and thus probably one of those far more responsible for the morally bankrupt society we live in than all the undoubtedly overpaid football/sports/celebrity ‘stars’ put together.