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Scumbag soccer players.

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  • #32
    Dave0301
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,939 ✭✭✭Dave0301


    darkdubh wrote: »
    Do you think you're in an episode of LA Law or something?Your typical pro soccer player is a thicko who is incapable of getting a real job.They are paid obscene amounts of money because numerous other thickos want to watch them kicking a ball around.These overpaid thickos spend their hard earned cash on hideous looking mansions and spend their free time spitroasting groupies in hotel rooms.

    You're an angry little guy aren't you!

    Here, have a lollipop, and don't you worry about those stupid mean footballers.

    As an aside, the reason I take umbrage with your post, is the blatant tarring of a profession based on one player. A person from any profession can commit a criminal activity, does that make over half of those other professionals the exact same?


  • #33
    Super-Rush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,473 ✭✭✭✭Super-Rush


    You're the Ravel Morrison of Boards op.


  • #34
    anncoates
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    In fairness his parents did their best to deter him from a gangster life by giving him such a gay name.


  • #35
    Harry Palmr
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    The average Soccerball scummer is an angel compared to professional team sportsmen in the USA - most of whom seem to be on doped up rape or assualt charges at any given moment


  • #36
    BeerWolf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,122 ✭✭✭BeerWolf


    Acid users should have their danglies submerged in aforementioned acid ...


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  • #37
    Hoop66
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,273 ✭✭✭Hoop66


    OK, so if all professional footballers aren't scumbags, can we at least agree that they're gay?

    ALL. OF. THEM.


  • #38
    allibastor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,520 ✭✭✭allibastor


    darkdubh wrote: »
    This piece of filth just sums up the kind of overpaid oafs in the premiership.Half of them should be in jail.

    http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/aug/07/ravel-morrison-threatened-throw-acid-ex-girlfriends-face

    You know what they say, Soccer is a gentlemans game played by thugs, Rugby is a thugs game played by gentlemen.

    This is what happens when little ****s like him get a load of money and fame so young and are made feel that normal rules don't apply to him.


  • #39
    dd972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭dd972


    The worst type is the 'hardman' who cowardly picks and chooses their victims, Ben Thatcher, Julian Dicks, Michael Ball, Neil Ruddock, Michael Brown to name a few, these a***holes never went near the likes of Keano or Duncan Ferguson.

    There have been players like Ravel Morrison who wake up and get sense in their mid to late 20's with the spectre of retirement at a young age and only one or two contracts left, Joey Barton for example.

    I can feel a Soccer Forum nag coming...


  • #40
    BeerWolf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,122 ✭✭✭BeerWolf


    Hoop66 wrote: »
    OK, so if all professional footballers aren't scumbags, can we at least agree that they're gay?

    ALL. OF. THEM.

    When football bans the use of faking out injury, as the majority of them do, and they stop being a bunch of pansies... then maybe I'd watch football. It's so god damn off putting watching "professionals" acting it out... 'tactic' or not, I find it fecking pathetic.


  • #41
    RollieFingers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,645 ✭✭✭RollieFingers


    I've seen some ridiculous threads on AH in my time, but this must surely take the biscuit! One example given of an admittedly odious football player thus becomes an attack on all of the "scumbag" footballers :rolleyes:

    http://thesource.com/2014/08/07/greg-oden-arrested-for-punching-his-ex-girlfriend/ What about all the "scumbag" NFL players?

    http://www.westerndailypress.co.uk/Gloucester-England-rugby-player-Koree-Britton/story-20948620-detail/story.html Or the "Peeping Tom" rugby players?

    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-22549897 Or the corrupt cricketers?

    http://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/ex-tyrone-gaa-footballer-cathal-mccarron-3341472 Or the GAA player who sucked on camera for cash?

    It's pretty easy to give one example and then get on your high horse describing everyone as scumbags! Get over yourself!


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  • #42
    Irish Guitarist
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    To be fair to Ravel his Bolero is good though.


  • #43
    P. Breathnach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,089 ✭✭✭✭P. Breathnach


    Has he been convicted of anything yet? Or are we seeing yet another manifestation of AH in lynch mob mode?

    I have little interest in football, and never heard of Ravel Morrison until I read this thread. If the charges are proved, I would be pleased if he were severely dealt with, because the behaviour described in the report is reprehensible. But, lads, give the jury a chance.


  • #44
    lertsnim
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,101 ✭✭✭✭lertsnim


    darkdubh wrote: »
    This piece of filth just sums up the kind of overpaid oafs in the premiership.Half of them should be in jail.

    http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/aug/07/ravel-morrison-threatened-throw-acid-ex-girlfriends-face

    There are scumbags in every profession. You do seem to have a dislike for the sport though as this stupid biased thread has shown.


  • #45
    PrettyBoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,213 ✭✭✭PrettyBoy


    darkdubh wrote: »
    Do you think you're in an episode of LA Law or something?Your typical pro soccer player is a thicko who is incapable of getting a real job.They are paid obscene amounts of money because numerous other thickos want to watch them kicking a ball around.These overpaid thickos spend their hard earned cash on hideous looking mansions and spend their free time spitroasting groupies in hotel rooms.

    Handy work if you can get it, you just sound like a jealous muppet with a chip on your shoulder.


  • #46
    danrua01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 405 ✭✭danrua01


    The reason they're overpaid is because people like the one who started this thread pay money to go to their games, buy their merchandise, and give them attention by reading stories about them.


  • #47
    humanji
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,976 ✭✭✭✭humanji


    P. Breathnach wrote: »
    Has he been convicted of anything yet? Or are we seeing yet another manifestation of AH in lynch mob mode?

    I have little interest in football, and never heard of Ravel Morrison until I read this thread. If the charges are proved, I would be pleased if he were severely dealt with, because the behaviour described in the report is reprehensible. But, lads, give the jury a chance.

    In fairness, this isn't an AH lynch mob thread. This is a thread where one person who doesn't like soccer is using accusations against a person who plays soccer, as a reason to insult all soccer players and people who watch the sport. And in turn, everyone seems to just take the piss out of the OP and point out the flawed logic.

    Oh, and there was also a cracking Ravel joke in there too.


  • #48
    Peist2007
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    darkdubh wrote: »
    incapable of getting a real job
    darkdubh wrote: »
    They are paid obscene amounts of money

    :confused:


  • #49
    takamichinoku
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,110 ✭✭✭takamichinoku


    Surprised Ravel Morrison isn't in prison yet, tbh. Definitely the weirdest prospect I've ever heard of in football, everyone was all like "this 16 year old is absolutely amazing and could be the next paul scholes or some **** but the fact is he's a total scumbag and likely won't even make the first team as a result"


  • #50
    RollieFingers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,645 ✭✭✭RollieFingers


    takamichinoku wrote: »
    Surprised Ravel Morrison isn't in prison yet, tbh. Definitely the weirdest prospect I've ever heard of in football, everyone was all like "this 16 year old is absolutely amazing and could be the next paul scholes or some **** but the fact is he's a total scumbag and likely won't even make the first team as a result"

    He has the raw talent to be in the Sterling,Shaw and Barkley group of elite youth prospects in England, pity he'd rather be a gangsta!


  • #51
    mad muffin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    I hate footballers! Over payed pansies. They're the reason my Sky bill is so high.


    *shakes fist at telly. Goes back to sleep*


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  • #52
    topper75
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    What about the consequences?

    "On me head be them son"


  • #53
    Rough Sleeper
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    darkdubh wrote: »
    Do you think you're in an episode of LA Law or something?Your typical pro soccer player is a thicko who is incapable of getting a real job.
    A real job? As opposed to what, some abstract ethereal concept that exists only in the mind? The fact of the matter is Premiership footballers have a skill set found only in the tiniest portion of the population, a skill set that is far rarer and more valuable than yours or mine.

    Oh, and aside from the obvious in your OP, "oaf" and "top-level professional athlete" are two mutually exclusive concepts.


  • #54
    Tail Docker
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    I'm guessing I'm the only one who wouldn't recognise Raffles Morris if he fell through my front window, propelled by a massive foot. I have a huge blind spot for footballers, one that encompasses the entire LOI, World Cup, Premiership et al. They would be going to work on bicycles and mowing the pitch themselves if my level of interest was more widespread. "You're good at kicking a ball eh? Good lad, that's grand, feck off down the park and kick it so."


  • #55
    Right Turn Clyde
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,487 ✭✭✭Right Turn Clyde


    darkdubh wrote: »
    This piece of filth just sums up the kind of overpaid oafs in the premiership.Half of them should be in jail.

    http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/aug/07/ravel-morrison-threatened-throw-acid-ex-girlfriends-face

    The 'scumbag footballer' has to be one of the most irritating stereotypes out there. Ask any of these scaremongers for a list of the guilty parties and they'll simply round up the usual suspects, out of the thousands of players that have passed through the PL in 21 years. Boring and outdated hysteria.


  • #56
    Shanotheslayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,191 ✭✭✭✭Shanotheslayer


    Tail Docker wrote: »
    I'm guessing I'm the only one who wouldn't recognise Raffles Morris if he fell through my front window, propelled by a massive foot. I have a huge blind spot for footballers, one that encompasses the entire LOI, World Cup, Premiership et al. They would be going to work on bicycles and mowing the pitch themselves if my level of interest was more widespread. "You're good at kicking a ball eh? Good lad, that's grand, feck off down the park and kick it so."

    Why go down the park when he can earn hundred of thousands in a stadium?


  • #57
    Right Turn Clyde
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,487 ✭✭✭Right Turn Clyde


    Tail Docker wrote: »
    I'm guessing I'm the only one who wouldn't recognise Raffles Morris if he fell through my front window, propelled by a massive foot. I have a huge blind spot for footballers, one that encompasses the entire LOI, World Cup, Premiership et al. They would be going to work on bicycles and mowing the pitch themselves if my level of interest was more widespread. "You're good at kicking a ball eh? Good lad, that's grand, feck off down the park and kick it so."

    265 million people play soccer at one level or another. Only a few thousand of those are good enough to play at the very highest level. Less than 700 of them are in the Premier League. All in all, they're seriously talented individuals.


  • #58
    aidoh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 620 ✭✭✭aidoh


    Right Turn Clyde wrote: »
    265 million people play soccer at one level or another. Only a few thousand of those are good enough to play at the very highest level. Less than 700 of them are in the Premier League. All in all, they're seriously talented individuals.

    That's fair enough but they're talented at something fvcking stupid and pointless in my opinion.

    Show me a special needs teacher, homeless centre volunteer, disease-reseaching scientist etc. etc. who earns, in a year, a quarter of what these jesters earn in a month. It's bread and circuses I know but it's so frustrating.

    Thread for a different day though, I guess.


  • #59
    Little CuChulainn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,624 ✭✭✭Little CuChulainn


    darkdubh wrote: »
    Do you think you're in an episode of LA Law or something?Your typical pro soccer player is a thicko who is incapable of getting a real job.They are paid obscene amounts of money because numerous other thickos want to watch them kicking a ball around.These overpaid thickos spend their hard earned cash on hideous looking mansions and spend their free time spitroasting groupies in hotel rooms.

    I think this post would be more suited to the soccer forum.




    Please someone move it there.


  • #60
    A_Sober_Paddy
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    FitzShane wrote: »
    Of course no mention to the like of Steven Gerrard who regularly gives a weeks wages (pretty high amount) to the Hillsborough Family Support Group among other charities through his foundation. Or no mention to the likes of the lesser known players like Steven Naismith who regularly gives match tickets to local job centres so that people who are actively looking for work & cannot afford to go to the game, can go.

    Yeah, half them should be locked up. Especially the ones who are on higher wages.

    Gerard a man who once assaulted a man in a pub...Yeah his a saint because he gives away money(which i believe lowers his tax burden), there is also a few stories going around involving him and a Liverpool legends daughter, which certainly isn't the sort of carry on of a married man


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  • #61
    A_Sober_Paddy
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    RollieFingers wrote: »
    I've seen some ridiculous threads on AH in my time, but this must surely take the biscuit! One example given of an admittedly odious football player thus becomes an attack on all of the "scumbag" footballers :rolleyes:

    http://thesource.com/2014/08/07/greg-oden-arrested-for-punching-his-ex-girlfriend/ What about all the "scumbag" NFL players?

    http://www.westerndailypress.co.uk/Gloucester-England-rugby-player-Koree-Britton/story-20948620-detail/story.html Or the "Peeping Tom" rugby players?

    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-22549897 Or the corrupt cricketers?

    http://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/ex-tyrone-gaa-footballer-cathal-mccarron-3341472 Or the GAA player who sucked on camera for cash?

    It's pretty easy to give one example and then get on your high horse describing everyone as scumbags! Get over yourself!

    Whats wrong with a GAA player being involved in gay porn? Are you a homophobic


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