Hmm. Looks like Charlie is having a bit of the Jeff Bridges/"Fearless" phenomenon: http://wapo.st/9Q3Xlf
Just read it on ESPN as well. He apparently is one of those absent minded athletes who just doesn't get it.. I thought he was smarter than this.....
Err, I have and then some. Depends on the circumstances, e.g. almost no traffic and the right road. Modern cars and SUV like the Q7 can do that speed quite easily and under control.
you know some posters on here are going to make excuses for even this. they make excuses for his cursing out of ref's they make excuses for his reckless driving.
And to think how many people stand by him after the accident. The way he acted after being left off the World Cup roster, his performance on the field lately, and now this. He should be lucky that Sochaux still keep him as a player.
Eh, I would be shocked if he got dumped anytime soon. I see them holding onto him for a while longer, continuing his training and give him a chance to keep progressing. As for the speeding incident--just stupid. He's a young, professional athlete, sure, but this is a case of bad judgment. Nothing else to be said.
Speeding excessively is obviously stupid and above all dangerous especially given the recent history of Davies. But with that said I was in a serious crash as a late teenager, very serious, in fact, but that didn't stop me from getting caught going nearly 100 mph in a 65 mph zone a 18 months later in my early 20's. It was a stupid mistake. Stupid. But to me, in my rationalization, I put myself in more harm getting into the car and driving after my crash when I wasn't mentally stable than I did driving 100 mph. Not a good rationalization, I know, and there were no excuses for driving that fast and the same applies for Davies. I wasn't a "grown man" at 23, Davies might not be either, and by being a professional athlete doesn't guarantee that.
doing some simple arithmetic 120/80 = x/60, that equates to about 90 miles per hour on a California freeway, if one wants to use the proportion theory towards how bad of an offense this is...
Charlie does have a history of taking risks, which I suppose is good for a striker. 1) Turns down a big contract with MLS to go to Scandinavia 2) With his new team he eats so unhealthily that the training staff forces him to change his diet (and since every ODP and bigtime college coach I've heard of stresses good dietary habits, he was probably scarfing down the burgers in Boston too) 3) His accident - both breaking a curfew and in a car with an intoxicated driver 4) Arrested for speeding. Any one of these is unremarkable. But a pattern is forming.
Arrested? Where does it say he was arrested? All it says is this: Yes, it's a little vague but I think if he was arrested the article would have mention that. Confiscating a license is self-explanatory but I imagine he was merely cited in addition to the confiscation and not arrested. Of course I know nothing of the French laws!