Butters - that article in The Sun

[Lush]

Was it the kick up the backside he needed or unjustified stick?

Here's what Charlie Oatway has to say...



Butters

 

[Turkey]

Yeah just read and felt for him. Our fans are real c's sometime's.

Well done Guy

 

[Beach Hut]

I think people should lighten up on this especially that SCR bloke today - it was only a joke

 

[the right footed denilson]

when you read that it actually makes me feel very sorry for the guy. sometimes we forget these are real people huh?? his kids must have hated being at school.

 

[Hilton]

He's shown now what he can do, now its time to get behind him!

 

[bigc]

yeah i feel for him.

there was a newcastle gk who retired in the 1990s due to the stick he received after a mistake against of all teams Luton in the FA Cup, he was regularly insulted out in newcastle, even if his kids were there, and he also received hate mail. Mike Hooper was him, in case anyone remembers him.

sometimes we gotta remember they got feelings too, and not to take things too far

 

[Citrus]

One Guy Butters...

 

[Safeway]

Fair enough, but Oatway saying "those people have never been fans for any football club" is a bit dumb. The people who did it are quite obviously Brighton fans, otherwise they wouldn't give a shit about the bloke.

Yes it was a bit harsh getting so personal. Yes it's unfortunate if his kids got grief. But if I was in Butters' position I'd simply turn around to us lot and say "I'm on four grand a week, what are you doing?"

Get over it.

 

[Lush]

I've been thinking about this and I'm quite glad Charlie has had a pop because I think it's yet another demonstration of the incredible team spirit there is.

But kids at school will give you stick if your dad misses a penalty, gets sent off, any number of reasons. If you're in the public eye it goes with the territory.

Guy gave a good performance against some very average forwards today - would we have been singing Guy's praises if he had to play against QPR? I suspect not.

If the Sun article made him determined to prove the fans wrong. Good for him.

If anyone missed the original article in The Sun BTW here it is...

Sun article

 

[Beach Hut]

I am sure his kids will reflect later in their life when the realise the difference in his wage to the national average that life isn't that bad.

Get a life - it was only a joke.

 

[Soton Seagull]

Football is a fickle world. He was abused for not delivering the goods and eating all the pies. It was never a personal thing as such, any player that underperforms gets stick. If he thinks he is hard done by, remember what happended to Jason Lee?!

Fair play to Butters, did his job well today.

 

[Dunkstar]

If Butters does it on the pitch who can criticise?

 

[Zebedee]

Well played today Guy. It was heartening to see you wearing the blue and white stripes and looking a half decent player after all the stick you have had. Good on ya.

 

[albiongirl]

I listened to the phone in at work and he had a fair point it,s ok having a laugh amongst ourselves but when it goes national it must have affected his family. Fair play to the guy he has worked hard and from all accounts had a decent game for us that is all that counts.

 

[Tooting Gull]

Personally I'm delighted if he was upset about it, it obviously needed something drastic, the nuclear option, to make the bloke realise he was a complete fraud collecting four grand a week for being unfit (there's just no excuse for a footballer) and playing crap.

If it's made him knuckle down and pull out a great game, so much the better. And there's a lot said about football fans being fickle, but I reckon it shows how genuine they are that they are prepared to acknowledge a player who was once a target, but they believe to have made an effort and improved. Surely it would be more annoying if they didn't recognise the improvement and just carried on slagging, based on the past.

Butters - you get my 1,000th post. I hope you appreciate it. Keep up the good work.

 

[GNF on Tour]

Personally I'm delighted if he was upset about it,

Yep, me to. Yeah, I feel for the kids if they indeed did get some grief (but this was proabaly over-stated so Fatboy could get the sympathy vote in the dressing room). He needed a rocket up his arris and got it.

As for Charlie, love the bloke but wouldn't want thim to represent the Albion on Mastermiond. A few of his quotes over the years may well come across as "heart on sleeve stuff" but are they actually true

Who cares, we won.

 

[Lord Cornwallis]

Sounded like he had a good game today, so he get's my applause but please no sob stories Charlie, it's a mans game.
I'm sure everyone of us has had the piss taken out of us at one time or other. But not all of us have the good fortune to use the "I'm on 4 grand a week" comeback.

 

[Pavilionaire]

Charlie seems to forget that the first bit of abuse Butters got was from Danny Cullip who used a few choice words after the fiasco which led to the winner for Stoke, after which he was hardly seen again.

Yes, there was a reason why he was out of the team for so long and we all know why that was. Were the fans who pay his wages supposed to feel sorry for him?

Having said that, I'm glad that he's got his act together and is giving us a performance, albeit £200,000 later...

 

[rool]

He shouldn't have been purchased in the first place, and who's fault is that?, but any suggestion that he is a model pro is bollox. He let himself get overweight and unfit, no one else, and if it took an article in a national paper to kick him up the backside it proves further how unprofessional he has been whilst being the club's highest earner.

If he now starts playing all well and good but it's him that owes the club, not the other way round, and it will take a lot of good performances to earn the respect of the fans.

 

[Willow]

Get over it.

He's certainly made a meal of it.

DOH!