Football Disgraces Itself Once Again

[andy-hughes]

The news reaches us that Doctor Eva Carneiro has been paid an advised £5million pounds to avoid her publicising the evidence she has against her former employer, Chelsea Football Club.

The club's laughable were it not so offensive, defence is to nit-pick about exactly which offensive term Manager Mourinho used against his colleagues - did her call her a 'daughter of a ***', which could be deemed sexist, or merely a 'son of a ***' - which appears to be offered as acceptable footballing parlance.

So a football club employs a QC at a four-figure-per-hour sum to defend its manager's use of offensive language to a colleague, with the breath-taking premise that the fine line between '***' and '***' was not crossed. Fine, no surprise there.

In common with modern football, the approach of the Neanderthal unreconstructed hierarchy at Chelsea's HQ was to hope the silly little woman would go back in the kitchen if they threw some money at her - heaven knows they have as much as that as have little morality, or simple adult courtesy and manners.

But hang on! What's going on! The girlie hasn't gone away, she's gone to court, and we have to show up and argue there, Oh No!!

But don't worry, we'll throw even more money at her to prevent the serious embarrassment of being exposed as serial misogynists and lousy individuals.

Of course, or ex-manager won't pay a penny, and we can't compel him to do what he should do simply as a mature adult, and apologise for his appalling behaviour - so he can trot off to his other multi-million pound job as another club manager, with his usual turd-in-his-y-fronts face on.

Football does not come out of this with any dignity whatsoever - and once again, the message to Premier League clubs and players is - if your behaviour is atrocious, throw some money, and it will go away.

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[Arksided]

I didn't realise you know him personally Andy. Your venomous comments about him have merit if that's the case. I'm not backing him because he's United's new boss... Just think that she's a silly Moo.

[agchristie]

Arksided > Just think that she's a silly Moo.

Not as silly as Moorinho! If she was silly she has cleverly duped Chelsea and the legal system!!

[Arksided]

She turned her nose up at 1.2 million... silly Moo!

[Sipowicz]

She got £5 million, rich moo!

[Arksided]

I thought the case was still ongoing... if that's the case... I love silly Moo's.

[andy-hughes]

Aaah, now I see your contempt of the good doctor, and you are graceful enough to concede that, having the means to stick it up Chelsea's collective bottom, she stuck out for, and got, considerably more money out of them, she has been very clever indeed.

[andy-hughes]

Arksided - //I didn't realise you know him personally Andy. Your venomous comments about him have merit if that's the case. I'm not backing him because he's United's new boss... Just think that she's a silly Moo. //

I think you'll find that - the way our culture works, personal involvement is not a prerequisite to spitting poison left right and centre - if it did, Katie Hopkins would be out of a job.

I merely call as I find, and I think my comments have been reasonably restrained, and I am sure the 'Special One' won't lose any beauty sleep over what I think!

[Arksided]

How do you know she's good? another one you know personally I'm guessing.

[Arksided]

Andy I do respect you being as your the longest serving member on AB, you have no idea how polite in my comments have being.

[andy-hughes]

Peter Pedant, having picked out the bones of your post - skirting round your wilful mis-spelling of my name as usual - I do understand that settling before cases proceed is a common occurrence.

I stand corrected about the case going to court - as you confirm it did end on its first day.

I am unsure if you meant to call Mr Mourinho a squid?

And I am unsure why you refer to footballers' wages - I have not done so, and I don't believe anyone else has either - they have no relevance to the discussion.

[andy-hughes]

Arksided - //How do you know she's good? another one you know personally I'm guessing. //

It's a turn of phrase - a courtesy of address from a bygone age.

[andy-hughes]

Arksided - // Andy I do respect you being as your the longest serving member on AB, you have no idea how polite in my comments have being. //

Thank you.

[Peter Pedant]

..// pome amdy hughes wrote// And I am unsure why you refer to footballers' wages - I have not done so, and I don't believe anyone else has either//

and i have here
//because they are too rich, famous, and talented to be bothered by having to behave like the grown men they are. // by one andie hughes ....

and from mushie
and maybe because in the "beautifil game" money is god.

and from mikey
speaking from a laymans point of view, it seems to me that the greedy tail has been wagging the sports dog for so long now,

but you know they could have got their money from other than employment

[Quizmonster]

"No one pays to see Dr Carneira run onto the pitch and put a plaster on a weeping footballers knee."
Yes they do, or at least did! I'd imagine that a penny - or whatever proportion - of each ticket's price went towards paying the good doctor's salary. Punters may well not have been consciously aware that they were paying her, but they were, in exactly the same way as they pay for ALL a team's supporting staff.

[andy-hughes]

Peter Pedant - I think your zeroing on mentions of money which are not anything to do with the thrust of the debate is rather side-tracking.

And why do you have such a problem with spelling my name correctly?

Should I refer to you Pieter Piedunt? Would that help?

[andy-hughes]

Peter Pedant - //as for comparing this to footballers wages - completely irrelevant
people pay to see Barlow or which ever released con it is
no one pays to see Dr Carneira run onto the pitch and put a plaster on a weeping footballers knee //

To add to my previous post - on-one in the debate has made any direct mention of footballers' wages - hence my surprise at your imagined finding of one.

And to add to my esteemed colleague QM's point - of course people ay to see the Doctor run on and treat injured players - if they didn't, there would be no doctor, and no players would be treated pitch side.

(And Jose Mourinho would have no-one to foully abuse! (or is that just me mischief-making? I think it is!)

[mushroom25]

//And Jose Mourinho would have no-one to foully abuse! //

oh he'd find someone - followers of the "special one"'s career will recall he gouged the eyes of barcelona coach tito vilanova back in 2011. then just to rub it in, all he said about the incident was that he'd "never heard of mr pito vilanova", where "pito" is a spanish colloquialism for a piece of male anatomy. you couldn't make it up.

[andy-hughes]

mushroom - I know next to nothing about football, but in a discussion in the office today about 'The Special One' - the consensus was that he has left every club he managed in a worse state than when he joined it.

I cannot comment, but I can wonder why, if he was so 'special', why did Chelsea sack him?

[andy-hughes]

//to foully abuse! //

Sorry - foully to abuse - please excuse my split infinitive grammar geeks!!

[mushroom25]

//why did Chelsea sack him?//

because it was obvious to everybody by that point in the season that he couldn't deliver a place in the next champion's league, with consequent loss to the club of between EUR50m and EUR100m. simple economics really.