Teen who sued soccer club for trauma after he was dropped loses case

The Highwayman · 27-04-2017 03:44PM #1

http://m.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/teen-who-sued-soccer-club-for-trauma-after-he-was-dropped-from-team-loses-case-35660200.html

Link from today's Indo. The boys father is looney tunes from what I understand from the story.
PTSD from being dropped from an U13 team. Snowflake alert.

uch · 27-04-2017 03:45PM

I'd be due about 3.5 million after all the teams I was dropped from down the years

McDermotX · 27-04-2017 03:47PM

This country.

RobertKK · 27-04-2017 03:47PM

Life is going to be very hard for some people.

GoneHome · 27-04-2017 03:48PM

This is actually worse than the "knocked knee off table" case, jesus wept

hytrogen · 27-04-2017 03:48PM

uch wrote:

I'd be due about 3.5 million after all the teams I was dropped from down the years

Drinks on you back in the clubhouse so!

jackwigan · 27-04-2017 03:48PM

Can we as a society agree to ban the term "snowflake"?

Makes me twitch a little every time I read it.

razorblunt · 27-04-2017 03:50PM

It's a bit of a harsh thread title.
Plain to see the kid's Dad has a lot to answer for and needs to take a step back, as suggested by the judge also.

andekwarhola · 27-04-2017 03:50PM

Sounds as much the Father as the kid. Anybody that has children playing football will know the type of nuts that you can encounter.

hytrogen · 27-04-2017 03:50PM

jackwigan wrote:

Makes me twitch a little every time I read it.

Do you want to build a snowman?

biko · 27-04-2017 03:52PM

Seems the dad is a "my way or the highway" kinda guy.

jester77 · 27-04-2017 03:55PM

What a role model that dad is. Poor young lad, can only imagine the slagging he has been getting because of this.

Red Eyes · 27-04-2017 03:57PM

You would feel sorry for the kid, all he wanted to do was play football with his friends and his dad ruined it for him.

dinorebel · 27-04-2017 03:57PM

jackwigan wrote: »

Can we as a society agree to ban the term "snowflake"?

Makes me twitch a little every time I read it.

You poor little snow.......................oh sorry

gramar · 27-04-2017 03:58PM

jester77 wrote: »

What a role model that dad is. Poor young lad, can only imagine the slagging he has been getting because of this.

That'll toughen him up for when he's playing in front of packed stadiums in the premier league.

kfallon · 27-04-2017 04:02PM

Bunch of cúnts!

DEFTLEFTHAND · 27-04-2017 04:07PM

Probably more the Dad than the boy. Psycho sports dads are the absolute worst.

I remember being accosted by a psycho dad when I was 14 for shouldering his boy out of the way in a hurling match. Fcuker came onto the field and had intentions to harm me before he was hauled off by other adults.

cml387 · 27-04-2017 04:09PM

I was always picked last for kickabouts at school.
I never recovered from the stigma.
However now I see some hope. $$$$$$$$!!!!!!

The Highwayman · 27-04-2017 04:12PM

jackwigan wrote: »

Can we as a society agree to ban the term "snowflake"?

Makes me twitch a little every time I read it.

Nope. It perfectly describes these weak minded, self-centred, narcissistic idiots.

Tayschren · 27-04-2017 04:13PM

Post traumatic stress for not being picked for the team,

ah heeer

pilly · 27-04-2017 04:15PM

Father totally at fault here. This type lives their own miserable failed soccer career through their children.

Poor child for having a father like that, he'll now be forever known for this especially in Ireland.

seamus · 27-04-2017 04:17PM

Poor kid. His parents sound like a fncking nightmare. They sound like incredibly entitled gob****es who thought that they were the kings of the club and threw tantrums when their son wasn't getting special treatment.

I expect when he was managing the team, his son got to play every match, a full 90 minutes, no matter how good or bad he was playing, or whether he was in good form, or dying of a cold.

Then he was replaced and lost the head because the new manager refused to give his son special treatment.

I'm glad they got a dose of reality, though my experience of narcissism like this is that they'll just blame the court for being wrong or biased against them. It's never their fault.

Parchment · 27-04-2017 04:19PM

Poor son and wife. The dads behaviour smacks of a controlling person - im sure this is only the tip if the iceberg with this man.

Skyfarm · 27-04-2017 04:19PM

there is a fifteen-year-old boy at the center of this story, no doubt he will have to take a lot of stick that isn't his, let's remind ourselves this is where minding mental health comes to the fore

Lu Tze · 27-04-2017 04:20PM

jackwigan wrote: »

Can we as a society agree to ban the term "snowflake"?

Makes me twitch a little every time I read it.

Snowfleck?

HeidiHeidi · 27-04-2017 04:21PM

That poor kid :mad:

whoopsadoodles · 27-04-2017 04:25PM

My kid didn't make a basketball team and telling her when I'd gotten the email was one absolutely horrible experience.

We were actually in a little bit of shock as she's an unbelievable player for her age but it was one hour of trials for this particular team and she badly injured her finger in that hour.

Did I sue? Did I fcuk. Did I try to convince them to give her another chance because she'd been injured? Of course not. And I certainly didn't tell her it was the fault of the people judging the trials either.

What I did do was email the coach, thank him for his time, and ask him for feedback on her performance that day to improve her chances at her next trials. I also brought her to the game she missed out on so that she could cheer her friends on.

I was very positive with her but also told her if she really wanted this, she would need to work extra hard and train extra smart. She upped her game big time and ended up with an invite to play in the states during the summer.

You teach your kids to work for what they want, not to stamp their feet and whinge about whose fault it was that they missed out. You're doing them absolutely no favours in the long run by wrapping them up and molly coddling them like that.

This is completely down to the father, and I wouldn't judge the child on it at all.

TheDoc · 27-04-2017 04:28PM

Would imagine lots of this stems to the father feeling he has missed out on €€€€ from his son going across the water.

Seen it happen a plenty, albeit never going to court over.

Guy:Incognito · 27-04-2017 04:29PM

Skyfarm wrote: »

there is a fifteen-year-old boy at the center of this story, no doubt he will have to take a lot of stick that isn't his, let's remind ourselves this is where minding mental health comes to the fore

He's 18.

storker · 27-04-2017 04:30PM

jackwigan wrote: »

Can we as a society agree to ban the term "snowflake"?

Makes me twitch a little every time I read it.

It makes me twitch every time I hear what they come out with. When describing this kind of nonsense, the word is a good one. It's the father who it applies to, of course, for all we know the kid has been "persuaded" to go along with it.

alchemist33 · 27-04-2017 04:36PM

Costs yet to be awarded. Hopefully the father has to pay them all because I doubt a local underage soccer team is rolling in it. If not, all the kids will suffer when the club goes under.

Teen who sued soccer club for trauma after he was dropped loses case

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