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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous
Thats some cold blooded shit right there.. at least in NFL or NBA when a player has a death in the family even his ugliest rivals tip their cap if he chooses to play and offer him sincere condolences and also respect for playing in such difficult circumstances.. if I watched a game where a player was getting dissed after a tragedy id probably never watch that team who dissed play again. Fuck that. The sports I follow respect real life shit, not acting like middle.school yo
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Fans can be brutal and I mean brutal to players. A guy called Lee Hughes ended up killing a guy and leaving a woman and another guy seriously injured cos of drink driving. He (Hughes) ended up in prison for I think it was 4 (checks wiki-it was 3) years and then was allowed to play football again.
I went to see him play against Preston. The crowds response? Every time he got the ball the crowd would go mental and just shout murderer.
Every. single. time.
The other (more famous) example is with Stan Collymore who hit his Mrs' Ulrika Jonsson in a bar. That incident alone has dogged him ever since.
This example when he was doing a phone in for talksport radio
He hit that like you hit Ulrika Jonsson
And on, and on it goes. Anyhoo I'm rambling.