Go on then. Go looking. Decent chaps are the exception, not the norm, remember. You should be able to find several rapists, etc, on that list, which is an entire first team plus subs. YOU made the claim for this, so let's put it to the test.

He made a claim. I am giving him just one team with which to prove it. It seems he is going to bail out and bluster for a bit, but he has made some quite offensive claims, and I'd like him to prove it. We could do it for many teams, and we would simply end up with the conclusion it is a very small minority that are anything even vaguely near his claims.

Of he was a genuine poster, with a genuine contribution, who was not simply here to wum, or troll, he would accept the challenge to his claim. He won't though, because it isn't true.

Just to clarify, all he has to do is from that relatively tiny list back up this...

"If you think the bunch of half-witted adulterers, wife-beaters, thugs and rapists who make up the ranks of professional footballers deserve the same or greater respect then it speaks volumes for your judgement of character"

Shouldn't be hard.

So I am a twerp for calling you on your ridiculous statement? Tell you what, when you feel like writing that st, try to have something in your mind with which to back it up, otherwise you'll look like a bit of an idiot when challenged.

So, you have no issue with his claim, as well as this claim;

"To the poster above who pointed to examples of accomplished, professional, exemplar footballers - I don't doubt that they exist (and God they must hate the behaviour of their peers that tarnishes the whole sport) but they are the exceptions not the norm." about decent footballers being the exception, but my challenge to that claim is weak? Really?

Do you agree with him then, or just happy to let such a ridiculous claim go unchallenged?

Whatever... I'm out. Pricks who don't even have the intelligence to back up what they say are not worth the bother.

Gtypical working class young men on 20k a week and some of them do stupid things. I for one am shocked. Wouldn't see rugby players doing similar when drunk would you? Certainly not someone like Mike Tindall... Some people are pricks, give them a shedload of cash and the limelight and you'll notice it more. Being a footballer doesn't make you an inherently bad person and I can't believe people are suggesting it does I've supported Norwich for years and can count the number of pricks on one hand. Sone people on here just like to feel better than others and it's pathetic. No reasoning with some

Compare a bad egg in football with good eggs in athletics and you have a disingenuous argument. Why not compare a drugs cheat with one of the many African footballers who pile over half their wages into improving the lives of others?

I thought you "were out"?

Sanction was immediate.

Suarez, Terry and Ferdinand seems to be somewhat longer?

Tonya?