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Good point, well made. Let that one slip right under my foot!

Fair enough. Different opinions - that's football. Happy New Year. Hope we win in Thursday.

I haven't got the commitment to bother digging holes!

Haven't changed it all. I can see how you read that as a different point but the two are not mutually exclusive. Yes they are an elite within their own field and, in terms of the work put in to get where they are, unusual and therefore part of an elite in broader society too.

Perhaps because it was in reply to a different point?

It seems pretty plain to me.. effectively "more than the vast majority" or "more than anyone".. hmm. They're not the same thing.

Well we can agree to disagree on that. I would certainly consider the combination of talent & commitment required to make it as a professional in any sport would mark that individual out as being part of an elite. 99% who try will not make it. It doesn't mean they're more special than anyone...

Precisely. So I didn't say they're more committed to their job than anyone else. Thanks for taking the time to clarify it.

Clearly you can't read. Not what I said at all.

Yes, most of us deal with those problems and in most cases, our work probably suffers short term. Which people tend to make allowances for. That doesn't happen in football. And while it's true that many professionals and other jobs require commitment to succeed, that doesn't make it any less...

Really? Even our very worst regular starter of the past few seasons will have put years of effort into their game to reach that level. To remain in the starting line-up of a professional football team, they have to continue to do that, day in, day out, year after year, sometimes while unwell...

I've never met Lewis Dunk but I have met a lot of other professional footballers and very few if any resembled that description. Money has nothing to do with it (apart from in the envious minds of some fans). On the whole I've found them to be ordinary blokes who, surprise, surprise, just...

To be honest, I'd be more concerned if he was having a stinker and not annoyed and frustrated about it. He did pretty well the rest of the game so obviously managed to get his head together. I just don't understand the big fuss. Fans take the p*ss out of a player who's made a bad mistake and...

I doubt a spat with some idiot in the crowd is likely to affect his long term career prospects. Once, at the Goldstone, we riled up Nottingham Forest's John Robertson enough that he flicked the Vs. The upshot - we all laughed. And he continued to be annoyingly brilliant. A lot of football...

Even if you're correct, getting on his back is hardly likely to help and, as we haven't got any other fit centre-backs of anything like Dunk's quality, it's pretty dim.

I wish he'd shouted it at the bloke behind me. I've wanted to for the past 3 years. We've got a small but very vocal minority of real negative twats in our crowd so I'm struggling to get outraged about 1 of the players being fed up with it.