I hate seeing grown men spit their dummy's out

[Bobbisox]

Eamon Holmes (a Man u fan) on Sky News this morning whinging about Rooney's 2 match ban???
"He mouthed off in the England game but they didn't do this to him then"
well Eamon, they bloody well should of!!
This was on News btw before I get jumped on from a high height

[andy-hughes]

The same point was made by Martin Samuel in the Mail this morning.

Because the FA didn't want to compromise the chances (!) of England in the Word Cup, so Rooney's yobbish behaviour was quietly ignored.

When he behaves the same way at club level, they decide to discipline him - the hyporcacy is rank, and shows the rot in the FA which should be cleared out and staffed with people with more backbone and less self-interest.

[Bobbisox]

Koode I am right there with you on this, sorry Andy, I don't care about FA hypocrisy, he needs to have an example made of him

[jackthehat]

Who....?

Eamon Holmes ?

[Bobbisox]

Sky News Jack??????

[jackthehat]

I know............
I was just wondering why you thought that the subject of your thread (Eamon Holmes) needed to have an example made of him......

[Bobbisox]

look deeper into this jack..:-)
I, of cause meant WR and not Mr Holmes

[jackthehat]

As I said yesterday, Rooney is a gonk but the TV editors know what they are likely to get if they shove a steady-cam up his nose...........

[milly143]

Both men are complete Joy-sticks. Rooney should be punished for this and he should have been punished from his antics at the World Cup. If he had, he might have learnt from it. It's not as if his skills on the pitch even made up for it in SA is it.

[milly143]

I'm not sure that's true JTH. The guy had just scored a hatrick. They might have expected a few jubilant cheers into the camera but I doubt they expected that. Every player who scores is immediately greeted by a camera in his face and most of them seem to appreciate it.

[andy-hughes]

Bobbisox - fair enough - but if the governingbody are behaving like idiots, then it hardly inspires players to behave appropriately following their example.

At the moment, the behaviour is in tandem from top to bottom - everyone has to obey the rules of respect and appropriate conduct - unless they don't feel like it.

[B00]

hehe, there's that word again "gonk"....love it!

[jackthehat]

Having such close-ups is a very new 'thing'.............perhaps we could revert back to the olden days where the cameras were a little removed from the players ?
It would protect the sensitive little flowers who object to thuggish gonks swearing in their Sitting Rooms of an evening/afternoon....

[andy-hughes]

Can't agree jack.

As professional footballers, Rooney and Co. should be able to present a profesional image to the world for an hour and a half a week - they are grown men, in spite of the media's constant attempt to pretend they are Sunday-morning eleven-year-olds.

[mickrog]

i wonder what the likes of Bobby Charlton and co think of this yob that wears the red shirt of man u and the white shirt of england

[milly143]

Wrong Andy. The 11 year olds on my nephews Sunday league team are very nice little fellas. Could teach Rooney a thing or two.

[jackthehat]

I don't disagree, Andy.
However, I think there are two issues here;
1. Rooney's seeming inability to conduct himself in anything like an appropriate manner (almost anywhere, too),
2. The 'outrage' his conduct provokes when exposed to a wider audience.

If you can't stop (1), and until he decides to behave like a grown-up you can't, then you have to address (2) by refusing to 'publish' his antics.....

[Old_Geezer]

Have to admit I pay next to no attention to these sort of things, this incident being no exception, but it seems to me that if this is just about swearing then it goes to prove what a bunch of softies are in charge these days. Seriously, is all this fuss about someone saying a few naughty naughty words ? Geeze, used to be a man's game refereed by those who didn't wilt like a pansy when looked at too hard.

[Bobbisox]

they wear snoods in the Winter now O_G so gone on the days of being a mans game, but Eamon Holmes habitually boo-hoos into his mike on these such occasions

[milly143]

There's a difference though O_G. As I said on another thread yesterday, you are always seeing players and managers swear and it happens to get caught on camera. You don't need to be a lip reading expert to understand what they are saying but what Rooney did was different.