Comments on: Hanging All Footballers For Marlon King’s Crimes, With Carole Malone’s Old Rope

By: dairy

dairy — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:42:15 +0000

overheard that bastion of morality from the PFA on the news this morning (Graham Taylor..? correct me if I’m wrong…), saying that there was no reason why King shouldn’t pick up his life and former employment on his release!!! I have heard of protectionism, but when it involves diminishing the crimes of an overpaid thug, the PFA should hang their heads in shame.
what a fine example they set for the future - professional footballers…? professional yobs more like - I hope he serves the full term.
full credit to the Wigan boss for having no hesitation in sacking him.
as for his wife, the poor cow is probably too scared of him to do anything else but support him in public….

By: Jake

Jake — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:03:29 +0000

Of course he’s a classic example of footballers today. He’s the only one in the press, because a couple of years ago, the press wouldn’t have given the time of day to a woman who made a claim against a footballer. There was, and still is, a certain ‘boys will be boys’ mentality surrounding footballers, it seems because they are involved in a popular national pastime, they can do no wrong. As a bloke, I think it’s disgusting.

By: Ointmentfly

Ointmentfly — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:32:36 +0000

Of course King is typical of many footballers today. You want more examples? How about Lee Hughes? Or Joey Barton? Or maybe Luke McCormick? Or perhaps El Hadji Diouf? What about Lesley Vainikolo? Steven Gerrard? Eric Cantona? Barry Ferguson? Allan McGregor? Charles Itandje? One could go on and on. Face it: footballers are nothing more than over-paid entertainers, many of whom unfortunately believe that their massive salaries gives them license to misbehave like spoilt children.

By: Desperate Dan

Desperate Dan — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:32:40 +0000

Can you please stop calling them “footballers”?

There are “rugby footballers” (union and league), “American footballers” and a number of others (Australian Rules, Gaelic etc).

These “people” are “soccer players”.

Rugby was already “rugger” and hockey was “hockers” but you couldn’t called “association football” “asoccer” so it became “soccer”.

As far as Marlon King is concerned, the “N” word springs to mind but, as my IQ is in excess of one hundred, not to the larynx…