He has a history of getting drunk and doing stupid shit. To go out with 17 yrs Olds makes things worse. Obviously he wasn't worth keeping (baggage)
Please provide examples of professional players, in England, being beaten in a bar. Should be fairly simple, considering you claim it is typical behaviour. Thanks.
Bendtner? http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/exclusive-nicklas-bendtner-held-over-1340919
So one. Who was Danish. Yet it was claimed to be "Typical behaviour" So there should be at least 30 examples a week.
Dwight Gayle from Newcastle, less than four months ago. They knocked him unconscious and broke his gold teeth: https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/2216...n-night-out-following-england-v-scotland-win/
Have we forgotten already about Stu Holden beaten up outside a Newcastle bar because he was a Sunderland player? But, I wouldn't call it typical.
It's a lot more than three. Names that appear in a simple search for "premier league players in bar brawls" include Steven Gerrard, Rolando Aarons, Ledley King, Anton Ferdinand, Glen Johnson, Barry Ferguson, etc. All of those in the last seven years, about. https://www.google.ca/search?q=premier league players in bar brawls There's even a quiz where they get you to match the Premier League player with the reason for his arrest: https://www.sporcle.com/games/QWERTY19/arrested_players/results So yeah, at what point it goes from "occasional" to "typical"?
Duncan Ferguson was nicknamed "Duncan Disorderly"for the number of times he got into brawls in bars. Roy Keane also had to be hauled ouit of jail on a few occasions, at least once by Alex Ferguson in person. Then there was Livepool's infamous "team-building" trip to Portugal when John Arne Riise attacked Craig Ballamy with a golf club in the hotel bar. The main reason they weren't charged was because the local police weren't interested in the hassle a cross-border prosecution would have involved. That, and the fact that he did it to Craig Bellamy Yanks abroad fans will remember Sunderland's Tuesday club, lead organizer Adam Johnson, who got up to a lot worse than bar room brawls. And who can forget Ched Evans? Those are just the cases we hear about. Clubs are very ready to distribute the, erm, "readies" to policemen who are ready to [just stop it!! ed.] to keep their mouths shut and misspell the player's name when filling out the files or simply leave him in the cells until he cools off/sobers up and offers the other guy a few quid "for his trouble," torn clothes etc. It's hell of a lot more than a few quid if there's a girl involved
It would be amiss to fail to mention Joey Barton, whose escapades are summarized in this Glasgow article before joining Rangers last year. http://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/sport/...joey-barton-colourful-history-fights-11335627 Among the article are these lovely section headlines: Assaulting team-mate Ousmane Dabo on the training ground (Dabo was left with a detached retina) Stubbing out a cigar in the eye of Jamie Tandy Getting arrested for assault and criminal damage after argument with Liverpool cab driver Going to jail for common assault and affray Punching Morten Gamst Pedersen in the stomach Sparking a ten-man brawl during a 'friendly' against Doncaster Getting sent home from a pre-season our of Thailand for assaulting a 15-year-old Everton fan
I've just deleted a personal attack on another poster, so it's time for another reminder to play the ball and not the man. Thanks.
Isn't it always best if you can play the ball and take a little piece of the man, too? At least that's what I learned watching the Premier League. Btw, has Julian had a match lately?
Right, so there were examples of a few players getting beaten - Dabo, Pedersen, Tandy - at the hands of Barton.
Placid Casual has been going around multiple threads on multiple forums generally stirring up trivial shit. Do your job better, @bungadiri.
No. Not trivial. My only question was that it apparently is "Typical in England" and asked for evidence. My mistake was making calling that person a clown. Some of the instances that were quoted, I had actually forgotten about- However, typical is maybe more how you are defining it. YMMV.
Here's what happened. We had Poster A respond to Poster B by calling them a name. I deleted that and the afters, because: 1. Poster B shouldn't have to look at that (neither the thing itself nor the afters) every time they come into the thread. 2. Removal prevents the small incident from [hyperbole alert] metastasizing [/hyperbole] into something bigger. I also tapped at least one poster on the shoulder and asked for a different approach, to which I got a very polite and reasonable response. And let me take this moment to shout out to Poster B, who was typically polite and reasonable from the get-go. And now we have a conversation that is focusing on the issues at hand, which is kinda the point of the whole thing. There's nothing inherently wrong with somebody suggesting that there's a problematic element to player culture in (in this case) England.* Nor is there anything inherently wrong with someone asking them to back the claim up with evidence. Discussions like that are solidly among the reasons boards like this exist. *This should come as no surprise and is almost certainly true of player culture in any major sport (and please note that I said "problematic element" in order to avoid implying that all athletes everywhere are involved). You've got a bunch of young people earning gobs of money by being very competitive and who get enough attention to make their head spin in the process, all of which adds up to lots of opportunities to make, uh, questionable choices. And they get to do it publicly, which never helps (speaking as someone who did his share of stupid shit on a much lower budget when he was their age, but who is grateful nobody had a camera shoved in his face while he was doing it).
Speaking of getting suspended for gambling, there was the keeper and the Pie... oh you said beaten by a pro footie player, I thought you said eaten... I haven't even checked the links and I can recall a half dozen or more off the top of my head, so let's say "not that unusual" and call it a night.
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