So in your eyes the fact that millions of kids look up to footballers gives them no responsibility because they are getting paid a lot of money am I right?
I don't expect them to be angels. I expect them to speed in their flash cars, I expect them to drink and perhaps do the odd bit of silly because we have all got pissed and done silly things. However, it is a giant leap from getting caught doing 90 in a 70 (or even 110 etc) or pissing in the street and breaking a womans nose.
Pinching someones arse is a silly but ultimately not an imprisonable offence, smashing someone in the face is breaking the law. Breaking a womans nose is cowardly, horrendous offence. One that calls for a trip to clink. I cannot think of one instance in my life where I have thought there was a call to smash a woman in the face. I don't care how old you are and what you earn this changes nothing. Theres a thing called standards and it crosses all divides be you young, be you a cleaner or solicitor.
Then there is the football clubs responsibility. If winning really does matter more than anything then why not just feed all your players performance enhancing drugs, advocate them doing whatever they want and be sponsored by the latest "break your legs" money lender that happens to be the new cool thing? But don't then expect parents to bring the next generation of fans to the "Family" stand and watch "women beaters and rapists XI" turn over some other team with axe murder Bill Socket scoring a last minute winner. Football, far from being a family sport is as Rodders suggests chasing its own tail into the gutter. I already don't watch the Premiership because I find the entire greedfest abhorrant. I don't care what the rest of the footballing world actually thinks about us, but I do care that we conduct ourselves with dignity above all.
When it comes to Blades points I can put plenty on the table but I can only think of the Battle Of Bramall Lane when I have been ashamed of my team, until now.
