Future David Beckham?

orourkeda

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/shooting-star-charlie-equals-becks-feat-2257371.html

On a more serious note, do you feel it's a touch premature to comment on a young kid with potential in the national press who hasnt had a chance to achieve anything significant yet in the game. For every success story in professional football (and professional sport in general) theres a thousand people with sob stories crying into their pint while proclaiming " I could have been a contender".

I hope he does well but potential on its own is never enough.

Dancor

Wait until he finds out about alcohol. Its all downhill from there.

Sea Sharp

I didn't think people from Kerry played filthy British games.

orourkeda

Dancor wrote: »

Wait until he finds out about alcohol. Its all downhill from there.

Throw in drugs, smoking and women.

WesternZulu

GaNjaHaN wrote: »

I didn't think people from Kerry played filthy British games.

Don't worry, he doesn't have a chance of making it if he is not from the pale!

L.Jenkins

Dancor wrote: »

Wait until he finds out about alcohol. Its all downhill from there.

orourkeda wrote: »

Throw in drugs, smoking and women.

Another Paul Gascoigne eh?

AnonoBoy

Here he is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnM3w8dCrz8

biko

It should be a sob story instead.
"Young promising GAA player goes to Manchester".

Btw, soccer stuff goes in Soccer.

Frank Spencer

orourkeda wrote: »

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/shooting-star-charlie-equals-becks-feat-2257371.html

On a more serious note, do you feel it's a touch premature to comment on a young kid with potential in the national press who hasnt had a chance to achieve anything significant yet in the game. For every success story in professional football (and professional sport in general) theres a thousand people with sob stories crying into their pint while proclaiming " I could have been a contender".

I hope he does well but potential on its own is never enough.

What's the problem? It's just a small piece about a kid who won an award that
Beckham happened to win. It's when people possibly like the OP start reading too much into that the problems start.

Over reaction much?

orourkeda

Frank Spencer wrote: »

What's the problem? It's just a small piece about a kid who won an award that
Beckham happened to win. It's when people possibly like the OP start reading too much into that the problems start.

Over reaction much?

How is my post an over reaction or reading too much into things?

All I did was ask a question.

Its the article thats going over the top in my view. He won an award fair enough but so what?

Frank Spencer

orourkeda wrote: »

How is my post an over reaction or reading too much into things?

All I did was ask a question.

Its the article thats going over the top in my view. He won an award fair enough but so what?

You're going over the top if you say the article went over the top.

Where exactly did the article go over the top?

orourkeda

Frank Spencer wrote: »

You're going over the top if you say the article went over the top.

Where exactly did the article go over the top?

What are you sh*ting about?

Frank Spencer

orourkeda wrote: »

What are you sh*ting about?

Good reply.

OK to put it in very S I M P L E terms just for you......Can you the OP show me where the article as in the newspaper report written by the reporter has gone over the top in it's reporting?

revz

This thread is over the top

Lando Griffin

Why not the new Paul McShane? Why compare him to an English man? Are the Irish heros not good enough

Bonavox

Lando Griffin wrote: »

Why not the new Paul McShane? Why compare him to an English man? Are the Irish heros not good enough

No.

leg

Lando Griffin wrote: »

Why not the new Paul McShane? Why compare him to an English man? Are the Irish heros not good enough

My dead granny is a better footballer than paul mc shane

Naos

I don't really get it.

The award Beckham won in 1986 - is that correct?

If so, what's happened to the people who won it over the past 24 years?

Lando Griffin

Naos wrote: »

I don't really get it.

The award Beckham won in 1986 - is that correct?

If so, what's happened to the people who won it over the past 24 years?

Posh had them well you know sorted.

parker kent

Frank Spencer wrote: »

You're going over the top if you say the article went over the top.

Where exactly did the article go over the top?

It's a straight red card for going over the top

Read up a little on Sonny Pike...wonderkids at 7 rarely make it.

Sonny - the nephew of ex-Tottenham striker Mark Falco - became semi-famous after was invited to join Ajax's Academy of Excellence at the age of seven. Sadly, as this website explains, his dreams of a professional career ended a couple of years ago. "Sonny is currently living near Dundee, and is studying psychology at Dundee University. He found the pressures of top-class football too much, and in 2003 decided to pursue a more regular career - having been privy to sports psychologists, he decided to follow that path. Nonetheless, he still has a fervent passion for the game, playing Sunday league football for Dryburgh Saints, as well as weekly five-a-side fixtures against other students."

"He is currently training for a Scottish FA coaching certificate, and as part of this, he coaches two primary school teams in the area. Although he doesn't support a local team, he goes to matches regularly, purely for his love of the game. Sonny says that he's much happier away from professional football. The pressure placed on him by his club, agents, sponsors and, to a lesser extent, the media made him suffer a nervous breakdown in October 2000, whilst still part of the Ajax youth squad."

"I couldn't take it, and I got ill, really screwed up," Sonny adds. "I stopped going to training and stuff, because I was so screwed up I couldn't hack it. Looking back, it's amazing how low I was. Ajax completely forgot about me, they didn't want to know, but as soon as I was better, they acted like they'd always been there for me. I realised how superficial it is at that level, and if I hadn't got back to form I bet they would have turfed me out. That's why I packed it in, it's so unstable. I guess it was during that period that I realised how much psychologists can help people, and I suppose I took it from there."

Micky Dolenz

As Biko pointed out, Soccer stuff goes in the Soccer forum please.