Rudest footballer?

[Brondbyfan]

Yeah I mean I wasn't trying to win any argument. And dannyeli clearly has a point, there are plenty of great athletes who are notorious jerks and still make plenty of money. In fact danny you'd know better than anyone, you've got Barry Bonds in your sig, and I wouldn't doubt that influenced your points In fact there have been entire teams of dickweeds, and danny would probably again be familiar with one of them: the Oakland Raiders (dude, is it something in the Bay water?) But I think even AH athletes and get away with it because not everyone has run into a footballer and so word doesn't spread who's a prick and who isn't. Rest assured, if an entire team said "we'd never sign autographs," they'd be toast.

I've never been lucky enough to meet a famous footballer, the perils of living in Seattle. I didn't have the cash for Celtic/Chelsea and would have passed out from the heat anyway. I do have a Villa jersey autographed by Danish national keeper Thomas Sørensen, but I got it on ebay.

 

[dannyeli]

Originally posted by Brondbyfan
the Oakland Raiders (dude, is it something in the Bay water?)

LMAO



Oh man ! that was good !!!!

And yes, i have maybe the best example in my sig, i have deal with it. I got lucky to have a picture of him, he was good at the ballpark for a while, them he went to the dougout and never came back. And clubs have a MANDATORY days (in europe) for their player to take a day for their fans, especially those who are members, like real madrid (the only one i know)... because you pay to a member, they take a day off, so the player can sign autograph, take pictures with the fans and all kind of stuff.

So, if the clubs demands the player to be there, and the fans will get what they want easily, why bother them if in any other case, they don't want to ? I know that not everybody can pay to a member of a club, but you can go to some practices, where the atmosphere is more relax and the players aren't in any type of pressure.

 

[Honest Man]

When I was 12 my Grandpa knew the chairman of Ayr United so I got to go in to the Ayr United dressing room and meet all the players. They were all nice guys and I got EVERY single players autograph. I dont think you'd have heard of many of the players but you might have heard of Craig Nelson, who was goalkeeper for Falkirk during their Scottish Cup run in 1997 and James Grady, who played for Partick Thistle last season and is playing for Dundee United this season

 

[Vedran-10]

Stoichkov :Bow:

 

[Gerrard 17]

Originally posted by BayernBoz



wat? noone gets it??

Or maybe that was just terribly unfunny?

 

[aqua]

Footballers earn their money from the public:

the money comes from gate receipts at a match, where the fan pays directly

advertising/sponsorship - the advertiser/sponsor want to advertise themselves to the fans/public to gain extra sales - without the public, they would not bother with the adverts - so, the money ultimately comes from the fans

tv money - tv companies offer big money for the rights to show football matches because the public will buy that product, subscribe to that tv station, etc - so, the money ultimately comes from the fans

Without the fans, if nobody was interested in football, there would be no football on tv, no sponsorship, so no salaries.

Every professional football needs to remember that it is the fans who pay for their salary, whether directly or indirectly.

Footballers have the right to privacy but when a famous footballer attends a football match, this is the very environment in which he can expect to be universally recognised. This is the territory where the fans have the right to ask for autographs. At the very least, a polite declination was in order from Stoichkov.

You should have told him he was a sh*t.

 

[numer20]

At the same time as Stoichkov ignored me, three rows down there was Eiður Smári Guðjohnsen with maybe ten kids crying at him for an autograph and no one had a pen. Still, he kept his cool and gave everyone his name. I only wish he had kept his cool yesterday ...

 

[soccer4evry1]

Originally posted by Honest Man
When I was 12 my Grandpa knew the chairman of Ayr United so I got to go in to the Ayr United dressing room and meet all the players. They were all nice guys and I got EVERY single players autograph. I dont think you'd have heard of many of the players but you might have heard of Craig Nelson, who was goalkeeper for Falkirk during their Scottish Cup run in 1997 and James Grady, who played for Partick Thistle last season and is playing for Dundee United this season

Something like this happened to me when I was a kid too. My dad had access to Atlético Paranaense's training ground (at that time we still didn't have the Training Center), and I got everyone's autograph, including the coach.

One player you guys may know is Paulo Rink (former Germany NT), now playing at Cyprus.

 

[x4dixont]

Originally posted by diggi 10
Alan Smith needs to have his little skinny arse kicked.. I can`t stand that s.o.b. Rooney too. He always wanted to be a tough guy during Euro 2004. He is only 18yrs old lil' f0ker.

why alan smith??? hes a passionate bloke and sometimes goes in for silly tackles and occasionally shouts at the ref but is he really that bad???

lauren and keown really annoy me cos of what happened at the old trafford brawl , if i was van nistelrooy i wud smacked them both.

 

[cheesegrater]

Originally posted by x4dixont
why alan smith??? hes a passionate bloke and sometimes goes in for silly tackles and occasionally shouts at the ref but is he really that bad???

lauren and keown really annoy me cos of what happened at the old trafford brawl , if i was van nistelrooy i wud smacked them both.

Alan Smith is more of a clown. Although it was halarious when he threw water bottles at people's heads. Rooney and Beckham try to act tough.

 

[Lean]

I have a lot of respect for Smith. Rooney looks a bit of a twat though.

 

[shez]

thankyou

Originally posted by buba3d
You better kind of rephrase the last line, it mat sound like your mom is a stripper.

exactly what was on my mind

shez

 

[bulldrig]

Originally posted by Brondbyfan
I think that's bad logic. Footballers may not need cameras, musicians, and effects to be great footballers. But DeNiro doesn't need any of those things to be a great actor, and Prince doesn't need them to be a great musician. The similarity is without fans DeNiro is a broke great actor, Prince is a great broke musician, and Nedved is a great broke football player. You say players make money from sponsorship, but why do sponsors get behind a team? Because people watch the game and see the sponsor logo!. A team of degenerate assclowns will have no fans and thus no sponsors (Man U being the exception). Now I'm not saying athletes always have to drop everything and sign autographs. But sports is a form of entertainment, making the players no different in their relationship to the fans than musicians or actors.

I do think he meant that unlike musicians and actors, footballers dont require an image to be a successful, some people of course still feel they have to highlight themself [Beckham] with something completely unrelated to their skills [or lack of] on the field, but they really dont have to...

The music business is the worst and most pathetic example of the importance of having an image and specially been so ever since the entry of music videos...yuck!, with all dreadfull hip-hop and rubbish pop-music...

 

[lil_kewell]

Originally posted by shokz
http://www.soccergaming.tv/showthread.php?threadid=75841&highlight=stoitchkov

If i was that little kid , i would of spat right on Stocihkovs face, wat a dickhead.