Steven Gerard

[ComedyPilot]

CP usually I was on the receiving end.

Still doesn't mean to say I haven't made a fool of myself though.

I must have misunderstood what you were meaning, I thought you meant you ha had a few rucks when younger?

 

[hackbike 666]

I must have misunderstood what you were meaning, I thought you meant you ha had a few rucks when younger?

No it's not my style.I just went out to enjoy myself but when people are pissed sometimes things got stupid.I haven't drank in an English pub (apart from after a funeral) for about ten years now.That pub drinking malarky is at an end.(well apart from when im on holiday abroad)

 

[HLaB]

mmmmm!

 

[Crankarm]

I see this footballer is a Liverpool player and the case was tried in Liverpool. He has lots of money so can afford a top barrister and solicitors. The CCTV clearly showed him looking on as his friend initiated the attack and when he had stepped away he moved in for a few more punches. Quite how he claims he didn't see his friend hit the injured party when CCTV shows him clearly looking on as his friend piled in is beyond me. Clearly had he been tried anywhere other than Liverpool than the result may have been very different. A perfect role model for young scousers.

Amy Whitehouse also had a very good barrister to get her off. Just shows if you've got money you can afford to pay some one to speak for you to get you off who could get a puppy sitting next to a steaming pile of poo off.

 

[xpc316e]

I will not comment on the verdict. However, can you imagine like Sir Stanley Matthews, or even Gary Lineker, getting himself involved in a similar situation in the first place? Gerard ought to have been more aware of his status as a role model in the lives of many impressionable youngsters before behaving as he did.

 

[PaulB]

Gerard ought to have been more aware of his status as a role model in the lives of many impressionable youngsters before behaving as he did.

Oh right. He's got to be a role model now has he? Where did it say that on his contract? The footballers of old you seem to be so proud included in their number some of the worst people imaginable but the press routinely covered up their indiscretions so their adoring public wouldn't get wind of their feet of clay. Amongst them were people who went to prison for rigging matches and masterminding truck-loads of fags getting robbed. What a glorious age that must have been.

Role model! What a blert you are!

 

[Chris Sirrus]

Thank goodness society relies trail by jury and not preconceived notions of guilt.

 

[xpc316e]

PaulB, give me a clue and tell me what a blert is. You do need to be very careful to explain all you write, because I am after all, a div.

 

[xpc316e]

Oh right. He's got to be a role model now has he? Where did it say that on his contract? The footballers of old you seem to be so proud included in their number some of the worst people imaginable but the press routinely covered up their indiscretions so their adoring public wouldn't get wind of their feet of clay. Amongst them were people who went to prison for rigging matches and masterminding truck-loads of fags getting robbed. What a glorious age that must have been.

It does not in all probability mention being a role model in Gerard's contract, but he undoubtedly is one whether you like it or not. There ought to be something in his contract about conduct likely to bring his club into disrepute - most employees have such a clause with respect to their employers.

I cited two players who had (to me, anyway) a clean public image; they may indeed have had feet of clay but I cannot remember either in a court accused of affray. If others of their time were not so squeaky clean, that does not tarnish the images of the two men I cited - if anything it makes their awareness of the importance of a decent public persona all the more praisworthy.