Footballers & Wags #16

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Eli_99 said:
Absolutely a fully grown mans obsession with meeting footballers being played out via his son. It’s really sad tbh. He’ll only get so long out of it tho. No one is going to think a 14 year old boy chasing them for pics is cute.
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True, although I can't think why anyone would be so desperate to meet them. One of my oldest friends was a player in the 90's so I've met quite a few (although admittedly none of the new crop), and most of them are as boring as a dry Jacobs cracker. And some barely reached that level.
 
BDY_97 said:
It’s not normal. The little boys a Spurs fan so why is he traveling the country just to take pics with players who play for rival clubs? Fair enough when England were playing in summer but it’s very strange that it’s continuing. As if that boy actually wrote a letter for grealish, what most likely happened is the dad wrote the letter and is acting like it was his son in order to get more stories in the press 🥴
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Someone said that they have been banned from the Spurs training centre, I think it was in one of these threads, but I can't say which one.
In situations like this, I always feel bad for the kids. He doesn't really know what he is doing, but the father....I totally blame him, that man has no common sense at all. Boundaries exist for a reason! It is not normal going to Manchester to give a letter that the kid didn't write just for more followers. And the video they posted after the Euros was awful, the kid trying to get pics with them after the loss, and you only had to look at their faces to know they wanted to be left alone with their loved ones.
 
GoldenBoots said:
True, although I can't think why anyone would be so desperate to meet them. One of my oldest friends was a player in the 90's so I've met quite a few (although admittedly none of the new crop), and most of them are as boring as a dry Jacobs cracker. And some barely reached that level.
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That’s so true, most of them can hardly string a sentence together 😂 it must be weird for players in their early twenties being hounded by middle aged men looking for a pic? Bless them.
 
Eli_99 said:
Pogba, Lindelof and Martial’s wives are an underrated trio I think, they are always out doing stuff together. The videos last week of Pogba dancing at the kids concert was sweet. Lindelof’s wife is very funny on Insta. Has a good sense of humour and doesn’t take herself too seriously.
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Martials wife is the biggest cringe, hope she’s got rid of them horrid braids
 
BDY_97 said:
I’m sorry but that little boy Olly irritates me so much, well probably his dad more than anything. Is he that desperate for fame & attention that he drives his son all over the country just to take photos with footballers? It’s actually weird
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Type in super olly t on twitter and the tweets won’t disappoint. I feel for the kid because his Dad is using him as a ticket to meet all these footballers, he probably doesn’t care because he loves football but its so embarrassing and cringe to watch.

 
Eli_99 said:
That’s so true, most of them can hardly string a sentence together 😂 it must be weird for players in their early twenties being hounded by middle aged men looking for a pic? Bless them.
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Indeed, although that's the media training they get these days, they're so busy concentrating on what they're told not to say or how to say what they are allowed to that their speech gets stunted!

My mate wasn't really under the media spotlight (and this was years before social media thankfully) so we didn't get much hassle if and the blokes who wanted an autograph or a picture if they happened to have a camera were on the whole very respectful. But times, and people, have changed!
 
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Snoopysnoop123 said:
Type in super olly t on twitter and the tweets won’t disappoint. I feel for the kid because his Dad is using him as a ticket to meet all these footballers, he probably doesn’t care because he loves football but its so embarrassing and cringe to watch.

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I’ve just looked his name up on Twitter and I am actually crying at some of the tweets 😭 football fans on Twitter are bleeping brutal man
 
Be interesting to see if West Ham do go for Lingard plus £75-80 million for Rice. The owners will be playing with fire what with a takeover bid sniffing about and a history of recent crowd trouble. The owners can’t really backtrack on the £100 million without getting the blame themselves this summer because Moyes publicly commented on that in a way that made it obvious Rice is valued by them for £100m or more.
 
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Also Rice is another one with a relative as an agent - his Dad Sean for him.

And I don’t always think its for the best to have a relative as an agent. They only have the experience of dealing with you rather than being an old hand knowing all the tricks and able to known when not to over play a card.

And also players who have relatives as agents seem to have an obsession with leaking stuff to the press which must make the new club nervous as well that they won’t start leaking stuff if they fall out with them and want the manager to go or some other change.
 
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candylady said:
I’ve never know a kid to make me cringe so much. His Dads voice is also SO annoying
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This is so OTT from the dad. The kid obviously thinks its fine as his dad is endorsing it and encouraging him. Poor sod though, people are clearly getting titsed off with it.
What's wrong with waiting outside the ground when the players arrive a couple hours before the game and having a photo behind the railings?! My son has done it a couple of times at Villa and finds it really exciting. Quite pathetic to travel the country the chasing social media fame.
 
37BBL said:
This is so OTT from the dad. The kid obviously thinks its fine as his dad is endorsing it and encouraging him. Poor sod though, people are clearly getting titsed off with it.
What's wrong with waiting outside the ground when the players arrive a couple hours before the game and having a photo behind the railings?! My son has done it a couple of times at Villa and finds it really exciting. Quite pathetic to travel the country the chasing social media fame.
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They were seated at the tunnel club those tickets don’t come cheap and are hard to get hold of so he’s definitely been given those tickets the whole thing is so cringe.
 
https://www.12ft.io/https://www.dai...ent-allow-stars-exempt-travel-quarantine.html

I can see some players citting injuries but the South American countries are powerful and would push FIFA to sanction clubs if the players then suddenly recover enough to not miss any club matches the article mentions they have the power to do so. Plus a lot of those countries have leaders who could easily get involved - what player wants their president calling them a traitor?
 
Thegreenbush96 said:
https://www.12ft.io/https://www.dai...ent-allow-stars-exempt-travel-quarantine.html

I can see some players citting injuries but the South American countries are powerful and would push FIFA to sanction clubs if the players then suddenly recover enough to not miss any club matches the article mentions they have the power to do so. Plus a lot of those countries have leaders who could easily get involved - what player wants their president calling them a traitor?
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The players have the right to turn it down, no need to fake an injury
 
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