Brian Reade Daily Mirror

The headline: Respect? Sorry it just does not exist in modern football.

Great characature of a neanderthal thug in a Sheff Utd shirt with an elbow crushing a players face....

wonder who that could be....

 

is that in todays Mirror//// nt

 

get a grip man nt

 

typing whilst on a pogo stick...... not recommended nt

 

very good peice i thought

Respect? Sorry, it just does not exist in modern football


By Brian Reade 15/11/2008



So without further ado let's go live to Soho Square in the heart of London's showland for this week's edition of Diss Factor.

Yes, it's your chance to vote for who you think is doing the most to diss the FA's Respect Agenda. And I have to say folks, I don't envy you, because it's been a bumper week for disrespectin'.

First up is the Manager's Award. Who's going to walk away with that statuette of a paranoid, phlegm-drenched, snarling pitbull?

Will it be Paul Jewell for saying "we'll give referees respect when they earn it?" David Jones for uttering: "There's no respect. It's a load of baloney?" Roy Keane for describing the Respect Agenda as a "PR-stunt?" Or Joe Kinnear for labelling Martin Atkinson a "Mickey Mouse referee?"

Ring in and tell us. But remember to withhold your number because the losers are likely to ring you back, call you a "know-nothing ******* **** who's costing me my ******* job" and ban themselves from speaking to you again.

Next up, the players. Which of these impressive young men has managed to show their fellow human beings that disrespect is a dish best served piping hot?

Have you been battered by the credit crunch? A home repossession case or one of the now 1.8million unemployed? Then vote for Cristiano Ronaldo, who's demanding to know why Manchester United haven't opened negotiations to up his wages to £170,000-a-week, even though there's three years left on his contract and he spent all summer begging to be released from the Living Hell of Manchester.

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Maybe you're a parent, touched by Ipswich midfielder David Norris who chose to celebrate a goal by grinning and binding his hands together to send a "private message" to his mate who's in jail for killing two young kids while being smashed off his face.

A "private message" he transmitted via Sky TV cameras, which he surely knew would be seen by millions of viewers including bereaved parents so grief-stricken they can hardly breathe.

Or perhaps you're an NHS worker who's been in a High Dependency Unit and knows what Barnsley striker Iain Hume is going through after Chris Morgan threw one of his trademark elbows into his face.

Hume's skull is fractured and blood washes around his brain. If you're wondering whether this was a one-off from Morgan check out You Tube and you'll find a man with such a consistent history of violence, Tarantino bases films on him.

And finally the interactive category, which this week involves a Burnley fan and Didier Drogba. Who do you think is the Top Disser here? The Clarets supporter who lashed a pound coin at Drogba's head, risking blinding him. Or Drogba, who gave Burnley fans the finger, then lashed the coin back into the crowd, running the risk of maiming one of a few hundred innocent bystanders.

The lines are now open and will stay open until one of the nominees' agents successfully wins a High Court order banning us from invading their privacy.

And in case there's deadlock we have a tie-breaker. Let us know who you think is the most detached from reality.

The players for living in a hedonistic bubble, the managers for thinking they should be looked up to like mediaeval kings, fans for thinking they can abuse players then play victim when it's returned, or the FA for believing that Respect is a word you could ever try to reintroduce to modern football's vocabulary

 

admins spoilt reply na

:'(

 

I like the comment

"If you're wondering whether this is a one-off from Morgan check out Youtube and you'll find a man with such a consistent history of violence, Tarantino bases films on him"