Graeme Swann...

booth70

Swann proves that today's cricketers are no different from premeirship footballers !!;)

http://www.cricinfo.com/england/content/current/story/454674.html

Beasty

You mean he is no different from a large number of individuals from all walks of life:rolleyes:

ASTRACLUB

booth70 wrote: »

Swann proves that today's cricketers are no different from premeirship footballers !!;)

http://www.cricinfo.com/england/content/current/story/454674.html

Excellent link, here is one morehttp://www.cricinfo.com/pakistan/content/story/454897.html

booth70

Perhaps if he had killed someone this whole thing may not be a joke to him and his team mates!!:(

http://www.cricinfo.com/england/content/current/story/472675.html

d'Oracle

When did premiership footballer become synonymous with drink driving?

booth70

d'Oracle wrote: »

When did premiership footballer become synonymous with drink driving?

Just one among many.....

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1069770/Drink-drive-footballer-faces-just-half-years-jail-killing-young-boys-motorway-crash.html

Swanny should be banned from driving for atleast 10 years but no doubt he will get away with just a slap on the wrist

Drunk drivers disgust me.....END OF STORY

d'Oracle

booth70 wrote: »

Just one among many.....

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1069770/Drink-drive-footballer-faces-just-half-years-jail-killing-young-boys-motorway-crash.html

That is 1 example.
And a really awful attempt to illustrate your point.
He never even played in the premiership.

Why didn't you lamp Swanny in with Farmers sons?
Or Hollywood actors.
Or Farmers.
Or TD's
NBA basketball players.
Barristers.
Gardai
Plumbers
Apprentice carpenters.
Mortgage advisors.

booth70

d'Oracle wrote: »

That is 1 example.
And a really awful attempt to illustrate your point.
He never even played in the premiership.

Thank goodness for that....you'd wonder what else he would have been upto if he did play in the premiership considering what magnificent role models these premiership footballers have been recently:(

....but I take your point....lumping 'gentleman' Swann in with the premiership footballers was doing the footballers a great disservice....atleast he had a valid excuse about his cat for drinking and driving:(.....pathetic!

djimi

Booth just so youre aware, most PL clubs have a first team squad of 25 players, and quite a few more when you take reserves into account. So even just taking first team squads into consideration, thats 500 players. Maybe 10 of them will make a dickhead of themselves. Thats 2% of all PL footballers. Hardly fair to tar them all with the same brush, is it?

d'Oracle

booth70 wrote: »

Thank goodness for that....you'd wonder what else he would have been upto if he did play in the premiership considering what magnificent role models these premiership footballers have been recently:(

....but I take your point....lumping 'gentleman' Swann in with the premiership footballers was doing the footballers a great disservice....atleast he had a valid excuse about his cat for drinking and driving:(.....pathetic!

My point is that your initial point that your effective declaration that premiership players are drink drivers was bloody silly.

You could have expressed your dissatisfaction about Swanns drink driving by say comparing him to TEST CRICKETERS like Andre Nel or Daryl Tuffey.

Moist Bread

Cricinfo wrote:

The arresting officer. PC Steven Denniss, told the court that he stopped Swann shortly after 3:00am because he was driving a high-performance car in an area hit by a spate of burglaries.

Denniss said Swann then admitted that he "shouldn't have probably been driving". Swann had 83 milligrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood. The legal limit for drivers in Britain is 80mg.

Just barely over the limit and he wasn't stopped for wobbling all over the road or speeding. Seems unlikely that he could have killed someone as you suggested earlier in this thread.

TrueDub

Folks, this thread is bordering on off-topic - please keep the discussion about the cricket side of things, the moral side can be discussed in the relevant forum.

Thanks

booth70

Moist Bread wrote: »

Just barely over the limit and he wasn't stopped for wobbling all over the road or speeding. Seems unlikely that he could have killed someone as you suggested earlier in this thread.

But does it not make you stop and wonder how many times he's done it before and got away without getting caught!!

....but as the mod says lets stick to cricketing side of things.....Swanny may be a drink driver but he sure is one hell of an off spinner;)

Corsendonk

List of Cricket related incidents, strangly no Swann.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cricket_incidents

Inquitus

If you are gonna do things like this FFS do it properly

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/8515002.stm