Not one of my favourite players, but tremendous comment by him just now on SSN re the Tevez situation. 'I can't see anyone doing that, then showing their face in the Changing Room after.'

In our sport tevez would have been punched in the face probably by each and everyone of the players and then booted out of the club and hopefully the sport

Got no time for football

I think it's a pretty unique situation. You get players who are 'bad influences' or 'want out' in all sports, even RL but not to the extent that Tevez went too.

That being said one of our greats, Ellery Hanley, could be disruptive at times.

Just proves how much "player power" is in modern day football.

Why was Lockers commenting on this? What was the interview?

It was just a series of sports people giving their opinion. There was also an interview with Brian Mc re Friday nights game. He was also asked his opinion and just said that it would never happen in RL.
If you want to see it just watch SSN, it's bound to be on again in the next 40 minutes, it's all they're talking about.

Hanley's ego when a player was probably even bigger than Tevez's. However when you get paid £250,000 a week it does seem a tad inconsiderate to not put a shift in for 30 minutes when asked.

It also seems a daft time to do it. During the transfer window he may have been given a way out but now he potentially has to hang around until the new year.

Unless he's looking to get sacked?

Typical arrogant footballer

Used to love football but now it just a load rich s throwing money around acting like spoilt brats. People wonder why their kids are little s when they are watching people with an attitude like that. Its only a matter of time before one of them is on a £1 million a week.

Would love to see some of them give rugby league a try, they wouldnt last 2 minutes

Tevez' actions, and in particular this most recent one, justify my decision to no longer take much interest in Football.

Shame too, as there was a time I paid a lot of interest as a neutral.

Well said, couldn't agree more, I, like you, used to enjoy the game but now cant get interested in it, players feigning injury, the powers that be refusing to accept technology that will help referees, obscene amounts of money being payed to average players, it goes on and on, yet the media will tell us what a wonderful spectacle it is, awful

It doesn't help that the people running the game are as corrupt as they come.

You still love the Rangers tho Roy eh

Aye, im football born and bred and as the years go on i like it less and less.. English football was fantastic in the 80's and an absolute pleasure to grow up watching but the English game is no longer football... such a shame. Tevez is a disgrace, he's in good company in that league!

To be fair- he does look like someone already has done repeatedly!

Hanley probably the greatest player that ever played RL was probably arrogant because the game came easy to him and knew he was better than anyone else, i bet to some extent those playing with him forgave it because they knew how good he was too.

I'm agreeing with a wire fan. What is happening to me?

Bad parenting, simply. I idolised Kelvin Skerrett as a kid but I don't go launching myself at everyone that looks at me funny now because I was brought up to know right from wrong.

Your sadly deluded if that is what you believe. Parents have a lot less power now than they used to and this crap is all over TV every single day. Most kids nowadays have this I dont give a crap attitude but nobody is allowed to discipline them anymore. Teachers are made to feel scared and intimidated in their own classrooms rather than them being respected. The kids of today may not copy the exact actions of these footballers but the attitude that they can do what they want and that they are above the autoritites certainly rubs off on a lot of them.

I know plenty of people who are good parents but their kids have still done things very wrong. Times have changed.

He was also very intelligent in knowing his 'worth'. He was the best player in British RL and certainly the best player at Wigan. He new this and wanted to protect that hierarchy. Hence Wally Lewis never playing for us.

Don't agree with that. I think parents should be able to discipline their kids how they see fit.

Yes, in SOME cases, this could lead to abuse but I bet in 99.9% of cases it would lead to a more disciplined child.

Spot on.

Just like when you was a child mate and your mam and dad used to lock you in the shed and feed you coal , look at you now




No back to the issue , we had that with Barrett at times , i remember catalan away one yr , he was told he was playing loose and suddenly realised his quad was 'stiff '

Talk about a massive exaggeration. I'd have an 'I don't give a crap attitude' if people made generalisations like that about a demographic that I would belong to. It's just scaremongering about out of control kids with no morals even though the reality is far from it.

As for Tevez, it's hardly a surprise that a footballer has done something like this. In fact the only surprise is that it's taken this long for a high profile player to hit the headlines in this way. Pay someone millions of pounds a year to kick a ball around and eventually they'll start to think they deserve it. Top flight football is like some bizarre fantasy world.