And so does his brother as well to have the confidence to post the video on social media in the expectation all it would do was raise a laugh.
I've no doubt some people are so pathetic they keep animals just to be mean to them.
Hope he gets the boot himself.
Of course they won't be put down.
They will be rehomed
Remember this old classic early in the pandemic, sums up modern footballers perfectly
Exactly how I've felt about it for a number of years now. Got into the game in the 90's when I was a lad and it's funny looking back how people used to think English football was so commercialized back then with the advent of Sky etc. It was positively amateurish to what we have today. It is now more akin to WWE or a movie franchise than a relatable, thrilling, all action...sport.
Between the insane wages which mean players and fans have a sort of lord and serf relationship where the lifestyles are so detached it's not funny, or the social media obsessed Gen Z footballers who put more stock in their online profiles than their ability to perform on the pitch, to the plutocrats who now own the clubs and would prefer to play in a joke European Super League with no promotion or relegation............... it's now just purely a business. The only people who want to delude themselves that there's a sport there are the fans who dutifully trapse to the stadium or pay the TV subscriptions.
Im amazed at your attitude to this, you seem annoyed at the thought of Zouma getting punished for kicking a defenceless animal across the room in front of his child?
Where are you coming from on this? Can you explain.
It's not a bloody competition ..........you might be more empathetic to one 'cause' than someone else and vice versa, so what .......there is no one right and no one wrong
He'd have trained all week with Zouma in the team aswell, i wouldn't be surprised if he miss's the next match but i think he's learned his lesson now, and 250,000 is alot of money for animal charities, i just wonder will his cats be put down now they have been taken ? What is their future.
Zouma didn't post anything on the internet for the 'larfs' though
But at least you have the courage to admit it's jealousy that is driving you.
I’d like to see him try to kick this cat.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CZwEX_agGej/?utm_medium=copy_link
I have a bit of sympathy for Moyes. No one is going to be outraged if he gets sacked at the end of the season for not getting the results. Him dropping this clown would be forgotten immediately but may effect the clubs form.
Exactly. What would happen to an unemployed scrote? Nothing.
I was very happy to see him named in the starting team and full respect to David Moyes for not caving to the utter nonsense of trial by social media.
OT I know, but Sky killed football as I knew and loved it. The players are not relatable these days because of the money they are on. Successful footballers always did well financially, but few had untouchable levels of wealth. That untouchable aspect is what enables behaviors like Zouma's. And haircuts like Jack Grealish's.
Today football is just a form of global tv entertainment and lifestyle programming; all shiny and exciting on the surface, but really it has become something ugly, trivial, and stupid. Players roll around like they've been shot at any opportunity. And clubs that once represented their city/region/community are now just souless, dislocated global brands that represent feck all. It's insipid, overhyped, repetitive sh1t.
I rarely miss an Ireland match, no matter where I am, but football isn't what it could be.
Meanwhile the Saudi Royal family owns Newcastle and they go on as normal. Kicking the cat is despicable but is small cheese when compared to what English football now represents
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFObWTD9Gv4
Despicable and vile thing to do a defenseless animal. Just shows you the calibre of the man.
That fact that he hasn’t even been dropped for the season shows just how rotten professional football is where money trumps morals every single time.
Where is the World Cup being held this year? Ah yes, Quatar...
West Ham is my new team to hate. Man City have been knocked off top spot.
Greenwood much worse but i don't think we are allowed a thread on him.
From the reactions I've seen it seems like what Zouma done is worse than what Greenwood was up to
I have a feeling you're not comparing like with like there.
Did Keane post a video of said incident on social media for the 'larfs'.
And I don't know what empathy you think anyone could feel for Zouma. It's hard to have empathy for someone having to pay a quarter of a million squids as a fine when that's only loose change to him. Most people can only dream of that amount of money in their bank accounts. Hard to have empathy for filthy rich people especially when they do eff all for it.
Big brave famous footballer kicking a defenseless poor cat. I hope this ends his career.
He got fined more his own club than Roy Keane did by the actual governing body (FA) for admitting to deliberately injurying Haaland that time. Seems a bit much.
I do think there are certain animal lovers who are incapable of showing any empathy towards humans. And any activists I have heard talk about this issue seem to be cut from that cloth.
Wouldn't be half as quick to condemn any racist abust thrown his way of course.
The overeaction just seems mad to me. Not like he had a dog fighting ring in the garden or anything
Not sure if serious..... Animal abuse by someone who is in the public eye.
I doubt it's his first time doing it anyway. I'm no cat lover but Zouma is a scumbag. I think it's been proven that people who mistreat animals are very capable of doing the same to humans. Major red flag for me. West Ham have made a bollox of it.
Edit* I see sponsors are distancing from the club. It's going to cost them...
Whosever decision it was I think they might live to regret that decision.
Someone today I heard made the point that football has been involved in all sorts of minority causes of late, and here they are showing it's all a load of insincere virtual signalling, because if it wasn't they wouldn't have let him play.
He also slaps it in hard in the face, knocking it out of a small child's arms.
Nasty.
He might have just got a bit over excited because the Super Bowl is on this Sunday.
Having watched the video a few times. He more punts the cat more then kicks it
I don't like cats. That said I wouldn't be the type to kick or slap an animal like that.
Someone that is cruel to animals tells me alot I need to know about them
Bahahah how dare you 😂
Sports people have always been held up as role models.
Every reason to make an example of him. The term "privilege" has been much misused over the past years. It applies here. This guy had a life of privilege that others can only aspire to. Instead of using that privilege for good, he showed his true colours by beating a defenceless cat. For no other reason than because he could. A bully. What's that saying about someone who is a bad cnut....bet he goes home and kicks his dog? This is a real life example of one of those people.
It looks like the sponsors are as angry at the team for playing him and in being totally tone deaf as they are at the incident itself.
The only cat I’ve ever knowingly eaten is tiger prawns. It was very yummy.
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