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Do professional soccer players need body guards when out in public?

  • 16-01-2013 8:45am
    #1
    Tom_Cruise
    Closed Accounts Posts: 734 ✭✭✭


    The real famous ones, such as Beckham, Ronaldo and Joey Barton?


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  • #2
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,158 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Honestly? who cares?

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #3
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Tom_Cruise wrote: »
    Do professional soccer players need bodyguards when out in public?

    More like sometimes they need someone to babysit them!


  • #4
    Ghandee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


    Unfortunately they're paid ridiculous sums of money OP.

    Wealthy people sometimes become targets for undesirables.


  • #5
    s_carnage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,673 ✭✭✭s_carnage


    mango salsa wrote: »
    Honestly? who cares?

    Tom Cruise does, now answer him.


  • #6
    Heroditas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,620 ✭✭✭Heroditas


    Ghandee wrote: »
    Unfortunately they're paid ridiculous sums of money OP.

    Wealthy people sometimes become targets for undesirables.


    Apart from Joey Barton who is a wealthy undesirable!


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  • #7
    Tom_Cruise
    Closed Accounts Posts: 734 ✭✭✭Tom_Cruise


    mango salsa wrote: »
    Honestly? who cares?

    Well i do, why else would i ask?


  • #8
    BizzyC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,012 ✭✭✭BizzyC


    I'd say so.

    Otherwise Messi would have Madrid fans kicking him in the shins wherever he goes....

    Barton employs a bodyguard to protect other people from him.


  • #9
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    Tom_Cruise wrote: »
    Well i do, why else would i ask?
    Write to them and query!


  • #10
    melekalikimaka
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,686 Mod ✭✭✭✭melekalikimaka


    yes they do, my friend is one for teams when they come over to ireland... usually when they go on the p1ss too


  • #11
    summerskin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,760 ✭✭✭summerskin


    Not all of them, it depends on what life they want to lead.

    I know Paul Scholes reasonably well and he still walks around unbothered, has his flash car but also a 10 year old Mondeo so he can drive around unnoticed, still goes to the snooker club with his old mates and regularly goes out to a couple of the local pubs for lunch with his family.


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  • #12
    Ghandee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


    Heroditas wrote: »
    Apart from Joey Barton who is a wealthy undesirable!

    French Joey?


  • #13
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    if only there was a soccer forum...


  • #14
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I'm locking this before Sir Alex gets out of bed and goes postal on your ass.

    Soccer stuff goes in the soccer forum, as per the charter.


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