Promising Footballer
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Tim330

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1,286 posts

233 months

Saturday 17th May 2025
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I always thought this phrase was a PH joke until

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3e51lje58jo

"Wright, once a promising footballer on the books of West Ham United and Brentford, served time in prison after being convicted in 2023 of trying to sell a Ming vase which was stolen from a museum in Switzerland."

Spare tyre

11,981 posts

151 months

Saturday 17th May 2025
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It all hinges on what the local pillar of the community says

CanAm

12,612 posts

293 months

Saturday 17th May 2025
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Yes, there's a definite difference between the BBC describing a "promising footballer on the books of West Ham United and Brentford" and what the local pillar of the community says about a "promising footballer" following a sad accident on an unlicensed motor-bike.

Spare tyre

11,981 posts

151 months

Saturday 17th May 2025
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CanAm said:
Yes, there's a definite difference between the BBC describing a "promising footballer on the books of West Ham United and Brentford" and what the local pillar of the community says about a "promising footballer" following a sad accident on an unlicensed motor-bike.
Forts and pairs

Wouldn’t urt a fly

Carl_VivaEspana

15,678 posts

283 months

Saturday 17th May 2025
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CanAm said:
Yes, there's a definite difference between the BBC describing a "promising footballer on the books of West Ham United and Brentford" and what the local pillar of the community says about a "promising footballer" following a sad accident on an unlicensed motor-bike.
I know I shouldn't have laughed.

I know I shouldn't post about me laughing .

but hehe

bitchstewie

63,106 posts

231 months

Saturday 17th May 2025
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Courtesy of Lord Sugar.

Footballers? They're 'total scum'