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

[Gromit]

Footballers swear every week on television. So do managers. So do crowds.

Why is Rooney being singled out? He is an idiot and yob, but not the only one.
The incident on Saturday was barely audible, and no one I watch it with in the pub heard any swearing. It was only when it was constantly repeated and the sound enhanced, that it was desernable what swear words he used.

If he does get a ban for this, at this time of the season, then accusations of un fair tratment of Manchezter United, and of the FA trying to nobble United will fly and stick.

I assume that Rooney will appeal (though he os clearly guilty) as a delaying tactic. W
He will get his ban when the remaining fixture are done, but he will ve sold and move abroad in the summer anyway.

It other words, it will be either a fix or a complete easte of time.

[andy-hughes]

milly - my point was that the FA treat adult professional athletes as though they are children - it was not intended to infer that children at Sunday football are badly behaved - simply that a little exhuberance in a child can be excused - full-scale ranting by a profesional adult cannot.

[Gromit]

Sorry for the typos above, typed on the phone on a train.

[andy-hughes]

Thanks for the clarification jack - although i think that pretending that nothing is wrong by not drawing attention to Rooney's behaviour can be seen by some - and probably him - as excusing it.

As i said - it is a professional entertainment arena, behave like an adult, or be disciplined accordingly. That way everyone has to obey the same rules as the wider world of adulthood.

[LoftyLottie]

My men don't swear and spit!! Trigs. My menfolk despise the swearing and spitting and they are 'real' men.

Why don't you get the swearing and spitting in other male sports?

[LoftyLottie]

And trigs, my Dad used to take me to football matches when I was young, and the players and the crowds did not act like they do now. 1st Division matches by the way!!

[McMouse]

<<Why don't you get the swearing and spitting in other male sports?>> I watched Rugby over the weekend and there was plenty of both......but the tv cameras were not shoved up the players noses. Tiger Woods got a significant fine for spitting during a golf tournament.

[jackthehat]

I'm starting to come round to the fact that the only 'winners' in the football supporters' stakes are those who attend the matches.

They get to see the game as it should be played, 90 minutes of blood and thunder, (hopefully) without the endless close-ups, slo-mo action and inane punditry.
Money has turned the game into a business and now it is piped into every home in the land and turned lucky young men into 'brands'. It is a tough competitive sport and has always had its complement of talented thugs, drunkards and fools. We have made a bargain with Old Nick when it comes to the Beautiful Game; the closer we want to be to the action..........the closer we will get, with all of the attendant 'moments of madness' displayed, graphically, in front of us.

[Bobbisox]

funny you never see this in a Rugby game and they are "men" imo
they also, all of them stand tall and sing our National Anthem which Rooney does not btw

[LoftyLottie]

Yes, McMouse, obviously you will get some and I was generalising, but football players and their fans do more than than there fair share of spitting and swearing and just behaving like thugs.

It didn't use to be like that. It really didn't. There were always a few, but it was very few.

[LoftyLottie]

I agree Bobbi.

As a sport I have no problem with football, but I don't see it as a 'Beautiful Game'!!

[Bobbisox]

I don't particularly understand rugby but when you see these big tough men standing tall and everyone singing their Anthem in respect of the country they represent and then you go along the line of an England football game, how many don't bother opening their mouths? Rooney for one, and then they prattle on about how much of an honour it is to play for their country

[Bobbisox]

no, we are picking up on how spoilt and bloody arrogant Rooney is and that to Man U supporters is sacrilegious!

[Bobbisox]

and he will feel this in his pocket...how?
next we will have Sir crying to the FA
boo-hoo