Role Models

Were parents ok with you biting all the kids?

 

Conan is my role model

 

I once went to watch our young un play for his local junior side. There were about 10 men and his dog watching, . No-one was abusive or shouting at his kid, just a general interest in the game. As one would expect there was a bit of gentle applause when the home team scored.
Then the away team scored and this little scroat goes running the full length of the touch line with his hand to his ear-hole as if to say - "that's quietened you hasn't it?"
So yes, kids that age are impressionable and copy footballers. No fault of the parents, just the kid deciding that a knobhead of a footballer should be his role-model.

 

As a young lad growing up, my favourite footballer was Gazza. Was he my role model? Dunno.

But I did go to Shekky Pete's barbers in Hoyland and get Gazza's latest haircut quite a lot.

I haven't beaten my missus up though. I love drink, but I'm not an alcoholic.

I'm not sure it's as cut and dry as you suggest. But it's my opinion that youngsters do look up to footballers, idolise them. I did with Gazza, and later Brendan O'Connell for us. And so if I was a parent of a young lad/lass and supported Oldham, I'd not be taking them anymore if Evans joined. I wouldn't want to be there myself, but I certainly wouldn't want my offspring cheering a convicted rapist.


Topic's getting done to death though. Can't we have a 'best ever reds XI' thread? Not had one this year.

 

Having Brendan O'Connell as a role model must have been exhausting.

 

I played left wing/left back, all my footballing years. But Gary Fleming's tache scared me, and I always thought Stuart Pearce looked like a lesbian. So I chose Gazza and Brendan, and now that I'm a workaholic-alcoholic I think I did the reight thing.

 

Okay, Andy. Just to be a bit different, though, this is how my best Barnsley XI would've lined up 40 years ago, January 1975:-
1) Gerry Stewart
2) Barry Murphy
3) David Booth
4) Bobby Doyle
5) Eric Winstanley
6) Pat Howard
7) Mick Butler
8) Les Lea
9) Peter Price
10)Alistair Millar
11)Frank Sharp
Substitutes (even though only one was allowed at the time):-
12)Paddy Greenwood
13)Brian Arblaster
14)Phil Chambers
15)John Bettany
16)Norman Dean
17)Stewart Barraclough
18)Eddie Loyden.

 

He ran to school, slide tackled the lollipop lady, walked the school dog, picked up all the litter in the playground, slide tackled the teacher, handed the books out, slide tackled his classmates, finished his writing, finished everyone else's writing, set-up the tables in the hall for dinner, served the dinner, slide tackled the dinner ladies, cleared away the diner plates, washed the pots, slide tackled his teacher again, finished his maths, finished everyone else's maths, marked the maths, slide tackled his teacher yet again, ran home, cleaned the car, hoovered up, made tea, slide tackled his mam, washed the pots, did his homework, did everyone else's homework from the whole school, played a game of footy, missed an easy chance, slide tackled everyone on the pitch including his team mates, twice, ran home, ran to bed, ran to sleep.

 

Mate of mine used to wear a plaster on his nose and say he was Robbie Fowler when was about 6 years old. You're confusing what they act like and what they actually are. Do they act like role models, no, are they role models yes. But what do I know, I'm a ****ing idiot.

 

Brilliant

 

You missed 'he got suspended'. Three times.

 

"Should"? Obviously other than in relation to kids coveting their footballing prowess, they should not be a role model.

With regard to manners, by the example of your abusive language I would suggest that you might be at the back of the role model queue.

Football anyway is not the place to look for admirable sorts. Fans and footballers, largely displaying their uglier primieval side.