Barney Rubble said:
Actually I've grown up with football my first love. I am a passionate Portsmouth fan and have attended four matches this season. I enjoy my football more than most people you'll ever meet, but I'm more than aware of how unprofessional footballers are. Any sport that boasts the likes of Kieron Dyer, Lee Bowyer, Rio Ferdinand, Jonathan Woodgate, Abel Xavier, Adrian Mutu and many, many others cannot lay reasonable claim to being called professional, as a whole. Just because I love football doesn't mean I have to like footballers. I've met enough of them, and enough cricketers, to know who I prefer.
Wasn't are very own Shaun Udal, banned from cricket for two years for violent conduct. Also Keith Piper, that bloke who bowled for England a while back who had a nasty coke habit, also Dermot Reeve, then the big bad boys who have disgraced their professional than say Abel Xavier, who like many an athlete took the wrong drug (also I have a lot of time for Mutu and his plight). The big bad boys being, Malick (Not the current one the one who liked a chucking a game), Cronje, Azharuddin etc. People who were respected within the game, Azharuddin and Malick being two great cricketers IMO and Cronje being a fine captain, those people have done more to disgrace their game then say Dyer, who likes shooting a **** film and going out on the ****. But Dyer is a joke, any football fan would know that, his not the England captain and I really don't think people would look up to someone like Dyer, footballer and all.
I’ve met countless number of footballers and have found many of them to be pretty cool, whilst I once met Graham Hick, my child hero and he wasn’t very nice or approachable but Tom Moody on the other hand was as nice as pie.
Though sorry Barney about calling you not a football fan, you must be pretty upset with what's going on at Pompey, its like a circus.
