Kenny Sansom, alcoholic sleeping on park bench

[WhingForPresident]

Rose?! Are you ****ing kidding me?!

Funny how he has £20 yet manages to buy seven bottles of wine a day. Nice bit of uncharacteristic over-exaggeration from the Daily Mail I see

Still a sad story of course. I'd love to know how this interview came about.

 

[shoreham seagull 1973]

Ha ha! Filthy Palarse scum. Even worse than a caravan, good to see them find their real level these people.

Hmmmm. You sound as if you have been out in the midday sun. What a pathetic comment to make.

 

[BlockDpete]

Looks like Arsenal are helping him out http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23531912

I heard someone say recently that it doesn't really matter who you are, you are only really 1 pay cheque away from living on the streets. I guess this another example of that.

 

[catfish]

Sad to see this happen to him. Even an ex scum player doesn't deserve it.

 

[Brightonfan1983]

I'm not saying help isn't required, or that they aren't in a pressured environment, far from it, but I don't necessarily believe the game is responsible for their decisions or their subsequent treatment, any more than anybody's employer or union is.

But football's admin. are responsible for giving a section of professionals access to enormous wealth, and consequently they, the PL, the PFA, become inordinately rich. Given that the nature of Football is as much about its history as its present, and no one enjoys these people's plights, public or otherwise, it seems 'unbalanced' that they have no visible help from footballing authorities.

I know what you mean, that former nurses, teachers, policewomen, whoever, who find themselves in similar circumstances down the line, have no extra help aside from, at the least, social provisions, and ex-footballers have this support too; but having contributed to your now-supremely wealthy ex-employers, and maybe having some belter of a goal played on MoTD come FA Cup weekend over and over again, it feels, well, 'unjust' that they then don't help out.

 

[PWA]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr-JvcloPDQ

Sure he was on talkSPORT recently?

 

[Butch Willykins]

How do buy a £1 million mansion on £1,200 a week?

 

[happypig]

How do buy a £1 million mansion on £1,200 a week?

Signing on bonus ? Win bonuses ? Sponsorship ? Daily mail made-up-figure ?

 

[smudge]

Doesn't matter who he played for, sad to see.

 

[edna krabappel]

How do buy a £1 million mansion on £1,200 a week?

Presumably it's worth a million NOW, whereas Sansom's £1200 per week wages were in the 1980s when that amount was worth a lot more. The house probably cost £100k back then...

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

How do buy a £1 million mansion on £1,200 a week?

Exactly what I was thinking. I'd also be penniless if I bought a 1m house on 1200k a week.

 

[Justice]

Looks like Arsenal are helping him out http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23531912

I heard someone say recently that it doesn't really matter who you are, you are only really 1 pay cheque away from living on the streets. I guess this another example of that.

I've heard it was 3 pay cheques but this still doesn't make much sense.

 

[Rogero]

I saw Brighton play away at Palace and my main memory was how could their full back ,Kenny, run the game ? He was brilliant.

 

[The Modfather]

Surely Palace could help him out with their £60 million windfall

 

[happypig]

Surely Palace could help him out with their £60 million windfall

They've offered him accomodation in the luxury wing :

 

[Skaville]

That's awful. I couldn't bare the thought of drinking seven bottles of rosé in my lifetime, let alone a day.

In all seriousness, good luck to him.

 

[fisons]

Sad to see this happen to him. Even an ex scum player doesn't deserve it.

Why not?

 

[carlzeiss]

Sad to see anyone falling that low .


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...olden-boy--homeless-wreck-drinking-death.html

 

[Baron Pepperpot]

Ha ha! Filthy Palarse scum. Even worse than a caravan, good to see them find their real level these people.

How did you expect that comment to be received ? Or is it that you just can't help yourself ?

I really do understand the word 'troll' now...

 

[Seagull kimchi]

So sad..........just like the millions of others suffering this plight.