Footballers as Role Models

[RWB Robin]

PDC makes some interesting points in his negative comparison of footballers against Olympic athletes.  Can they be compared?  Should we look to any professional sports people as role models?  What might change the way footballers are perceived by lots of people (apart from massive pay cuts)?  Is PDC's high profile campaign of discipline and loyalty going to help?

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[4D]

Silly money in football is the one thing that pisses me off about the game now.

[mrverve]

Off the point slightly but it does beg the question how PDC would cope when/if he manages in the PL (or any top tier).

Players at this level are easier to manage, on less wages and also look up to Di Canio because of what he did as a player. The more up the leagues you go the more difficult it becomes to manage individuals. Souness has gone on record many times in the past saying that certain players are impossible to manage these days because of the wages they earn and the agents involved and is the main reason he's not looking to manage anymore.

[DMR]

This is a bit fucking rich from PDC given the histrionics that plagued his career.

As a rule of thumb, most footballers could do with a bit more grace and humility, but is it up to a bunch of young men to uphold the moral fabric of society? In a word, no.

Sometimes I wish PDC would fucking zip it to be honest.

[fittons_coaching_badge]

This is a bit fucking rich from PDC given the histrionics that plagued his career.

As a rule of thumb, most footballers could do with a bit more grace and humility, but is it up to a bunch of young men to uphold the moral fabric of society? In a word, no.

Sometimes I wish PDC would fucking zip it to be honest.

Word!

[reeves4england]

There are plenty of footballers out there who are great role models for youngsters. They're the ones who don't make it into the newspapers.

[walcot red]

There are plenty of footballers out there who are great role models for youngsters. They're the ones who don't make it into the newspapers.

Michael Owen is a good role model, he's not really been mentioned on the front pages. He kept his head down and got on with it.

[walrus]

This is a bit fucking rich from PDC given the histrionics that plagued his career.

As a rule of thumb, most footballers could do with a bit more grace and humility, but is it up to a bunch of young men to uphold the moral fabric of society? In a word, no.

Sometimes I wish PDC would fucking zip it to be honest.

Histrionics in what sense?  Yes he was highly strung and had - and still has - a tempremental personality, but he wasn't in the paper every week falling out of nightclubs into a blinged Bentley shoving mobile phones up his arse.

[walcot red]

This is a bit fucking rich from PDC given the histrionics that plagued his career.

As a rule of thumb, most footballers could do with a bit more grace and humility, but is it up to a bunch of young men to uphold the moral fabric of society? In a word, no.

Sometimes I wish PDC would fucking zip it to be honest.

PDC also won an award when the Everton kepper was injured and caught the ball instead of scoring. Football would be boring as hell without characters like Clough, Cantona, Di Canino and now of course Barton. What the fuck would we talk about? the size of the pitch? the pies at half time?

[DMR]

I was referring to assaulting referees, casual racism, getting sacked by Juve, embroiling himself in verbals with nigh on everybody... you know, the ususal.

[BenTheRed]

there are quite a few role models out there, just not the ones we hear about in the paper all the time.

In the england team: joe hart and scott parker?

The ones who go about their thing quietly seem to be ok

[fittons_coaching_badge]

PDC also won an award when the Everton kepper was injured and caught the ball instead of scoring. Football would be boring as hell without characters like Clough, Cantona, Di Canino and now of course Barton. What the fuck would we talk about? the size of the pitch? the pies at half time?

Barton's a cunt!  End Of!

[BenTheRed]

Off the point slightly but it does beg the question how PDC would cope when/if he manages in the PL (or any top tier).

I think PdC will always need to be the biggest personallity at what ever club he's at, it seems to be working now. He also has the perfect chairman to work with.

If he was manager at Man U and he falls out with someone like rooney - it'll be more likey PdC that'll be leaving

[walcot red]

Barton's a cunt!  End Of!

I was using Barton as an example he does crazy shit, gets himself in trouble and is a cunt, but people will/do talk about him.

[kerry red]

While nobody could disagree that Barton is a twat in all aspects of his life, I still reckon the epitomy of the vacuous, me-me-me culture is

David Bentley

quite happy to take the cash and doesn't care if he plays or not