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

DonkeyDick1992 wrote: »

I was just about to post about this
. I seen in an article that the father was the couch before the other man was so obviously jealousy got the better.. And I think Ireland is now the new country for sueing.. everyday there is a story on the paper about a stupid case.. It's ridiculous what some people are like.. Money money money...

I pity the poor young lad,just imagine the bullying he has to go through for his parents greed,

It's not just bullying this guy will have to deal with as this could have a huge effect on his future employment chances. These days employers check Facebook and google so I could easily see him getting passed over for a job as what business want's to take the risk of getting sued!

The kid at the centre of this snowstorm need to fire his 'manager' right now.

I feel most sorry for the son. He will suffer most from this as his school/college mates will surely not let him forget it and his stupid delusional wanker dad will be sitting at home with his equally stupid delusional wife planning their appeal whereas I'd say the son would probably rather just have forgotten the whole thing years ago like any normal person.

I hope the father has full costs awarded against him, bringing such a ridiculous claim against an amateur football club will probably ruin the club and that isn't fair. He should shoulder the full costs of the case and be punished if he fails to pay.

biko wrote: »

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

I just knew one of his parents had to be involved in some way. When I came across the paragraph about his Da being manager the previous season it all clicked into place. I really hope he didn't drag his son through that just to try get one over somebody.

222233 wrote: »

With all due respect the Psychologist, I believe actually a Psychiatrist (correct me if I'm wrong) was doing her job by assessing a child and presenting that information to the court. Psychiatrists are responsible for their patients, not the court cases their patients are involved in.

She diagnosed PTSD on the back of this event, the actual case itself has nothing to do with her work, she provided information on a patient she assessed, as is her job.. Psychiatrists are HIGHLY trained specialists in their field, irrespective of my opinions on the case I think it's most likely her assessment of PTSD being caused by the events is accurate, if that is the information she presented to the court.

Google is your friend. And you ought google before composing an argument based on conjecture about a real event. Psychologist and psychiatrist are not the first words that come to mind.

The lad has a fairly big following an Twitter.
Theirs always parents who go way over the top regarding issues about their children. Ask teachers and coaches of teams of some of the silly things they've to listen to.Whats worst still these people often get involved in parents councils/trainers and they make everything miserable for everybody.
By the sounds of things the farther didn't have much of a backing from the other parents.
One thing I do know is bullying can go on in sports clubs right from little local clubs to national teams. The way some people are treated is awful.

So... an Aston Villa scout at the match.
Think the coach did the boy a favour by not playing him.

I still have a trauma from the 1 year i had a coach at youth level whose son was in the team.
Smallest kid of the team, yet he wanted to play centre forward. So that happened. Couldnt kick a ball straight but dad decided he would take the penalties. After all the little boy was captain of the team....

Somehow i think something similar was going on while this dad was the coach of the team.

Epic fail...

skankkuvhima wrote: »

That's rubbish though, is there no onus on the solicitor to pipe up and say "ahh, this hasn't a chance in hell of winning, don't do it. If you do it you will be stuck with all the costs"?

Or is it the case that no matter how daft the case I'll find a solicitor to represent me? If I want to sue the state because the lizard people running the world are out to get me will I be able to find a solicitor to stand up in court and argue this?

The answer to both is yes.

For all intents and purposes, the solicitor acts as extension of the client, one with expert legal knowledge. They are bound by the law to advise their client, not impartially but biased towards the best interests of the client.

A solicitor cannot force you to do or say (or indeed not do or not say) anything. All they can do is advise you on whether something is the right course of action. They cannot stop you from taking that course.

In the case of a client who wants to take a ridiculous case, the solicitor can advise the client that it's a ridiculous case, but if the client ignores that and decides to press ahead, the solicitor's only options are to stop representing that client (and the client will find someone else who will take the case), or to assist the client in pressing ahead with the case, while building the best argument they can that is in the best interests of their client.

I'm sure many many solicitors have found themselves in court presenting farcical scenarios and arguments for their clients, but they've been backed into a corner by a client who refuses to relent.