Kids Behind The Bike Shed

[Vapin' Joe]

Why didn't he just tell them to f*ck off and mind their own business?

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/jul/26/arsenal-jack-wilshere-sorry-smoking-england

PC gorn mad, I tell you.

 

[Saluki]

I don't know one footballer from another but surely, he's an adult and if he wants a fag he's old enough to have one. Whether he's a role model/parent or not.
Personally I think that smoking is a disgusting habit but people should be able to have a cigarette if they want one.

 

[Saluki]

Some of the top rock climbers and mountaineers in the 1960s & 1970s were heavy smokers. It was seen as cool.






Mind you lots of them are now dead

From smoking or from landing (people rarely die from the fall)

 

[snorri]

Pictured "smoking in a LV swimming pool",
Hey that's a class act, did he leave his ciggies and lighter on the pool edge?

 

[Roadrider48]

Just something else for the PC anal brigade to whine about.

 

[welsh dragon]

Is smoking illegal now? I had no idea.

 

[Beebo]

If Arsenal pay him £100,000 per week and Arsenal dont want him to smoke, then so be it.

 

[welsh dragon]

If Arsenal pay him £100,000 per week and Arsenal dont want him to smoke, then so be it.

Serious question. Do clubs stipulate that players can't smoke?

 

[Roadrider48]

Serious question. Do clubs stipulate that players can't smoke?

No, they're just under pressure from the interfering anuses that we all have to endure day in day out.
The world is full of them nowadays, unfortunately.

 

[welsh dragon]

No, they're just under pressure from the interfering anuses that we all have to endure day in day out.
The world is full of them nowadays, unfortunately.

In that case if it doesn't stipulate any rules about smoking, then no one can tell him to do otherwise. Good god talk about PC police. This is getting ridiculous now. At first I found it quite funny. Now these things are going to far. What's next for gods sake.

 

[Vapin' Joe]

Brian Clough used to let his players nip off to the toilet for a fag just before a game. His reasoning being that if a player felt better after a cigarette then why deprive him of one just before he needed it most?

I remember at the Skol Six at Wembley seeing a few riders spark up in the trackside cabins between events, the great Peter Post being one.

 

[Roadrider48]

In that case if it doesn't stipulate any rules about smoking, then no one can tell him to do otherwise. Good god talk about PC police. This is getting ridiculous now. At first I found it quite funny. Now these things are going to far. What's next for gods sake.

Similar to when Wayne Rooney was publicly berated for eating a Wendy's hamburger in the states; he has also been guilty of the cardinal sin of smoking.
You're dead right, it's getting out of control. Used to be funny, but not now.

 

[welsh dragon]

Similar to when Wayne Rooney was publicly berated for eating a Wendy's hamburger in the states; he has also been guilty of the cardinal sin of smoking.
You're dead right, it's getting out of control. Used to be funny, but not now.

I seriously am glad I'm not 18 years old anymore. Can you imagine how things are going to be by the time young adults become middle aged people? You won't be able to say or do anything, unless its sanctioned by the vast majority. You'll be able to say anything, just as long as it's an opinion that is held by everyone else. Talk about big brother. People wont be able to be individuals anymore, or be able to have an opinion that is different.

 

[SomethingLikeThat]

You're sounding dangerously like a thought criminal with that talk.

 

[welsh dragon]

heaven forbid