Guest 693- Registered: 12 Nov 2009
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1 February 2010
11:2239308#1
I'd just like to put aside Melissa's comment about sport being boring - to me it isn't, but I accept that it is to others (although they're wrong!
). This John Terry thing was being discussed on BBC Breakfast this morning, and I voiced an opinion that if John Terry was captain of a lesser team than Chelsea, if he weren't captain of England, then would anyone actually give a toss? To which my good lady wife replied that if this situation had actually happened in any business environment other than sport, noone would bat an eyelid. Office romances happen every day, after all.
So, is this John Terry thing being blown out of all proportion? Should the fact that he's been caught playing away (sorry, bad pun, I know) with a team mate's wife be making front page headlines, or is it this culture we have in Britain of putting celebrities on a pedestal then taking great joy in knocking them off it? Or is it, as I believe, that our tabloid press are guttersnipes that take great glee in destroying people's lives?
For me, the wider issue was that a judge had the guts to throw out the so-called 'Super Injunction' in the first place. Perhaps this common sense ruling will demonstrate to the rich and undeserving that they must, after all, take the consequences for their actions the same as us plebs.
True friends stab you in the front.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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1 February 2010
12:4639314#2
I also go along with what you are saying Andy.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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1 February 2010
13:0839318#3
to me the main problem is that he is the england captain, youngsters are supposed to look up to him.
i think that fabio capello will take the armband from him, he has an intense dislike of the celebrity thing.
wives and girlfriends are not allowed near the training camps and will not be anywhere near the squad during the world cup.
their is apparent discontent among the other players over the behaviour of the captain also.
1 February 2010
13:4339326#4
Andy, I have no interest in celebrity footballers and in all honestly had to ask my newsagent who John Terry was (he did not make the front page in my choice of reading needless to say).
Looking into the matter I am particularly pleased that the sanctimonious hypocrite has been exposed by the gutter press as when winning Dad of the Year last year (beating Peter Andre apparently) he was quopted as saying
"It's a great honour to be voted Dad of the Year. I have won many trophies in my career but I'm proud to say that this is up there with all of them.
Georgie and Summer are great kids and I love them both dearly.
My family mean the world to me and receiving this award has made me feel extremely proud.
Being with the kids and watching them grow up and learning new things every day is a privilege and I'm honoured to receive this award."
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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1 February 2010
14:3839331#5
Shouldn't this be in the most boring thread
Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 673- Registered: 16 Jun 2008
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1 February 2010
17:2039337#6
The problem seems to be the deep humiliation felt by this England team member whose bird has canoodled with the Captain. I think the way to get round this and establish a level playing field is for the Captain to canoodle with all the other England team members' wives and girlfriends as well. Any of them who are not too keen on the idea should be implored to lie back and think of England.
1 February 2010
17:2539338#7
Having now read up 'on line' about John Terry, my contempt for him is added to, for apparently using abortion as a form of contraception............
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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1 February 2010
17:2839339#8
Ed I feel we should watch how we word our post the last one of yours I feel was to strong,there are young ones that read all this to.
Guest 686- Registered: 5 May 2009
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1 February 2010
18:2139342#9
I'm with Scotchie, John who?
Phil West
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Guest 673- Registered: 16 Jun 2008
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1 February 2010
18:2739343#10
Take your point, Vic.
Post suitably bowlderised.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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1 February 2010
19:2039352#11
Ed Thank you for that last thing I want to do is upset anyone.
Guest 667- Registered: 6 Apr 2008
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1 February 2010
20:5839363#12
No matter if you like football or not the principle is the same no matter who it is. John Terry's private life is just that and has nothing to do with anyone else. As for an idol for children to look up to, if the media did not print it the kids would not know about it. I also do not agree with abortion for the easy way out but again it has nothing to do with me or anyone else.
I just wonder how many of those journalists writing the stories about him have perfect lives. This is just reason why I never ever purchase or read National newspapers, they are never happier than when they are destroying some one's life and living.
As for those that find football boring, well it is each to their own, I expect there are many things you all do that others find boring. I find it very sad some people do not know of the England Captain but hey Each to their Own.
1 February 2010
21:0939364#13
Well said Harry, a very balanced posting. As for the "Dad of the Year" award, that was it. It wasn't "Husband of the Year". It's articles such as this, and hugely biased political reporting that ensure the garbage printers never get a penny of my money and haven't done for almost 15 years.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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1 February 2010
22:0939377#14
bet he is not captain of england by this time next week though.
Brian Dixon
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1 February 2010
22:1239379#15
howard,try the end of febury,england have a game john terry as captain.1st week of march we will know what the score is with j terry.
1 February 2010
22:1839381#16
Harry I can assure you that I have better things to do than learn the name of the captain of the England team.
I have always subscribed to the view that football was invented to give the working classes a topic for conversation since they are far too inarticulate to talk about the weather.....
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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1 February 2010
22:5939388#17
that is what i like about you bob, us proletariat learn so much from you.
up until now we have had to wait for missives from posh barry.
1 February 2010
23:2139389#18
Thanks Howard. I just tell it how I see it!
I have actually turned out before now to see Dover play (which is how football should be, local and entertaining) but in spite of hailing from Manchester have no interest at all in the big money game. As far as I am concerned people might as well support Tesco , Sainsbury or ASDA.
The players in their 'private' lives behave like characters from Shameless who have just won the lottery (but then, why should the poor have a monopoly on bad taste!).
In the mean time the multi-nationals such as Man U, Arsenal etc. etc are just corporations to make money. Away strips, home strips, this years strip is just a fashion con to extract money from the hoi polloi who have more money than sense. The players are never 'local' and indeed all to rarely British.
In the mean time the post match conversation is full of how 'we' did this or 'we' missed that when 'we' are too often an unfit lager swilling slob who has watched the 'big match' in some God awful pub before disturbing he peace and quiet at Frost Villas on our raucous way home whilst peeing in shop fronts and impaling our half eaten kebab on the nearest car aerial.
Empires end by keeping the plebs quiet with bread and circuses. Football is such a circus.
2 February 2010
01:0739397#19
Bob, I know it's only fun but you should at least check your facts before attacking Howie and his plebian/proletarian chums.
Footie, well the organised variety, was invented/created in public schools such as Harrow, Eton, Rugby, Donnington and one or two others, plus Cambidge Uni and some chaps oop ter North in Sheffield. ALL the early leading lights were of public school background including the immense Lord Kinnaird and Charles Alcock, two of the main drivers of the sport in its infancy.
The plebs only took over once hacking, tripping, holding, throwing and barging were outlawed; mostly because W G Grace gave up the sport in favour of the less dangerous and infinitely more boring cricket.
2 February 2010
08:0239398#20
A lot of things invented at Eton have gone on to become weapons in the class war!!
