Friday, September 30, 2011

Have footballers become society's scapegoats?

Hardly a week goes by without hearing about a Premier League footballer's indiscretion.

Sometimes it is infidelity… sometimes it is a night club scuffle… and sometimes, just sometimes, it is for something that went on inside a stadium.

In April, there was a huge furore when Manchester United's Wayne Rooney passionately celebrated a goal by screaming a naughty word very loudly into the camera. The striker received a two game ban for his TV rant.

But that was not the only punishment dolled out to the player.

The media came down like a tonne of bricks on the striker for his outburst, one that would obviously ruin the reputation of the game and encourage more swearing up and down the land.

More recently, former United player Carlos Tevez was publicly, and hence globally, chastised for refusing to go onto the pitch during Manchester City's Champions League clash with Bayern Munich. Full story...

Don't miss:
  1. Rooney-gate: Time to kick hypocrisy out of football...
  2. A genius, yes. But Alex Ferguson is also a lout...
  3. Ryan Giggs, private lives and injunctions...
  4. A very, very angry Argentinian soccer fan!!!
  5. FIFA, the FA, Blatter and Qatar's World Cup... 
  6. Daylight robbery, meet nighttime robbery: wealthy looters, meet poor looters...

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