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And to you. I hope we win Friday :)

Anyway, I've just given myself a hard stare for being so dull so am off home now to practice my keepy uppies. Night all.

Ok, the first part of that sentence I agree with, the second part I don't. That's not in any way decrying their hard work and commitment, it's just that they are not as unusual as you think they are.

Nope. At the risk of boring everyone else on this thread - your original point was that pro footballers are more disciplined and devoted to their profession than the rest of society, save for a handful of other professions. You've since changed that to more committed 'within their own field'...

Agreed, but that's not what you were saying in your original post.

Come on now, you said "...than a handful of professions". That means that out of all the many professions, and the many more 'jobs', pro footballers are in an elite group. They are most certainly not.

We'll have to agree to disagree on that point. They are committed for sure, but it is generally a relatively short career that doesn't require the same 8 hours a day, 5 days a week (minimum) for 45 odd years. And obviously it's not their fault they're paid so well, but being so does carry an...

A fair point, which is one of the reasons I have personally never been a 'boo'er' or gone beyond the odd FFS *insert name here*!

If he was being abused then fair enough, especially if the term you've quoted was used. All I saw / heard was the jeers/ cheers and then his angry turn towards the East Stand. There certainly seems to be some people certain that he used abusive language whilst others say he definitely didn't...

But he wasn't being abused as far as I can tell, he just got some ironic jeers / cheers, that's not 'abuse'. I certainly don't subscribe to the attitude that because we pay their wages we can say what we like, far from it. If he'd have been abused I wouldn't have a problem with his alleged...

My experience of our players is also generally very positive, I'm talking across clubs and leagues. The point I was making regarding the court case was his lack of judgement in being in that situation in the first place. Yes, he's young and we all make errors, it just seems to me at least that...

Firstly, I'm not for a moment taring all players with that brush, but your experience with some modern professional footballers is at odds with some of my own, and a lot of other people's. It is probably a fair point that those who aren't either friends or colleagues only get to see them either...

I'm not excusing the ironic jeers/cheers, although they are understandable and hardly any reason for Dunk to lose the plot, but I do feel his reaction is symptomatic of young men paid stupid amounts of money and, largely, separated from reality most of the time. In the days when players...