Bad Boys & Lucrative Football Contracts

[PalazioVecchio]

Criminal convictions and all that. If you are a proven bad-boy, you will often be barred from working as a teacher, accountant, care worker, airline pilot, doctor etc...... But no bar from football ?

Surely that sends the wrong message to all our 15 year old urban youth ? We have many ex-prisoners running up and down the pitch, earning megabucks. Should clubs be allowed to be Mercenary about signing talent ? just cos he can score a few goals ? And fully in the knowledge that he could be a killer or a rapist ? Imagine if a 27 year old Messi just got out of jail for killing a kid from drink-driving ? There would be a queue of managers with cheque-books in hand. Is this moral ?

We all know clubs who would sign Satan if he could promise some good results. Is it up to the F.A to address this ? Or as a minimum slam a 'Bad Boy tax' onto signings of ex-convicts ? The worse the crimes the bigger the tax. Thus sending Joey Barton types down from the Premier League and down to the Championship....for their sins.

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[crvenaeagle]

Well not only this but whilst the BBC are acting high and mighty by sacking Jermaine Jenas after sending inappropriate texts, they then replace him with Troy Deeney, somebody who's done time for GBH amongst other criminal convictions. Where's the sense in that?

 

[PalazioVecchio]

Well not only this but whilst the BBC are acting high and mighty by sacking Jermaine Jenas after sending inappropriate texts, they then replace him with Troy Deeney, somebody who's done time for GBH amongst other criminal convictions.

The BBC ? oh, i am very surprised at that. Their employees have always had an impeccable provenance.

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