Whilst the ticket situation is indifensible, some of the blame has to go on the club's ticket office. Complimentary tickets are usually collected from the ticket office rather than handed out by the players.
It's just the latest example of our overall ****** culture. Whether it's allowing the club captain to play whilst unfit and under performing for years but allowing him to simultaneously carve out a media career on the back of controversial opinions, having several players breach lockdown, a long standing culture in the dressing room of rebellion against any coach that tries to impose any discipline, inexplicable contract extensions to senior pros so they can rest on their laurels as their careers wind down coupled with wasting years of talented young players' careers as we have no idea how to bring them through into the first team. The club is rotten, promotion last year just papered over the cracks for a little longer.
Fair point - once you let someone get away with criminal activity or breaking Government guidelines then everyone else will do what they like .
Recalling the video that came out after we won promotion last season in which Hughes told Foster forcefully more than once to stop pointing the recorder at him, maybe some frustration at how 'indiscipline' within the squad was being allowed to run rife played a large part in his decision not to sign the new contract.
It's understandable, doing it for 20 years professionally would make you lose the love of the game. But that doesn't mean you just **** around. You still need to act professional. If I had thosands of followers on Twitter and did YouTube videos about my days at work I'm sure someone would have a word
There’a plenty to blame Foster for currently but Will Hughes playing a character and clearly having fun with him (and even talking to him after he moved to Palace) would have had zero impact on him deciding not to sign a new contract (and happily play the remaining season by the way).
Just playing devil's advocate but no media is allowed in the changing rooms for 90 mins before a game and I can't remember how long after (PL rules). No GoPro is allowed in the goal - PL rules. So we get snippets of his cycling activities and brief behind-the-scenes before training, then again behind-the-scenes of the hotel stay. Small snippets of training, which he attends and trains hard and has a laugh with his colleagues - which happens at every club...you just don't see it. So, where is the unprofessionalism?
Danny Shittu was the same, so was Craig Dawson...train, play, go home and switch off. You'd be surprised how many current players don't watch football and treat it as a job.
I like his show mostly. He’s an engaging fun bloke and that comes across quite well in the show. Wish he’d do a bit more cycling on his cycling YouTube show. However, he’s started to go down this route of fanboying YouTubers and it’s a bit sad. I enjoyed the True Geordie until he did something similar and sold out to the yankee dollar. The final straw was having that Bolton kid and his weirdo dad on the show. Two of the most annoying human beings on the planet. His fantasy football crap was fine when we were in the Championship but I was pretty surprised he carried it on in the PL. Anyone who thinks he didn’t dive for that Salah shot because he had him as his team captain is a bit dim, but any whiff of impropriety is horribly unhelpful. As for giving this Liverpool ‘fan’ tickets, I’ve not seen any of the footage but if it was in the Rookery, a ‘sold out’ stand, then he has some questions to answer. If it was in an area that normies don’t sit, then that’s fine. Foster seems like a lovely bloke, the story about helping the old lady during the lockdown shows that but I would imagine a little bit of innocent naivety and a society induced demand for followers on social media has led to some of these things. Either that or, to coin a phrase from someone on here, ‘he’s not the sharpest knife in the draw’. Oh, he also shouldn’t be in the team. Bachmann should be.
Ben White this week said the same. To much confusion from many who seem to think footballers must watch football 24/7 when they aren't training..
Think this is definitely true. Seems like a very well meaning, super positive but painfully thick bloke.
It's not that I expect Foster to watch football twenty four to seven. I do expect a little more in the way of his reactions to a loss. Yes perhaps it's not the most important thing in the universe compared to many other things. Nonetheless it does mean something to fans. When you see one of the players who purports to be playing for your side grinning and laughing after a defeat. swapping shirts and seemingly not caring it does affect supporters. Any of whom if they could wear the shirt would give their utmost energies for the side. I've seen many players of a far higher calibre like Messi after a finals defeat looking as if they have the weight of the world on their shoulders. Even tearful. They know what it means and that it hurts. Capoue is another. Incredible talent but never made the most of it. It's just a job. For them maybe. Not for fans. We have far too many of these in the team. Now Gomes that's a different story. He understood entirely what it means.
You're conflating fans with transient mercenaries. They fulfil the terms of their contract of employment, play then clap the fans after a game (some of them) then they go home.
That's pretty hyperbolic. Most of the players you alluded to have left the club (or as good as in the case of Gray) and we seemed to have a good team spirit in the run to promotion. Even if Foster did allow one or two Liverpool fans in the home end, he hasn't broken any rules and it hardly compares to the other sins you have mentioned, notably breaching lockdown. Let's judge Foster on how he performs against the lesser teams where it matters before questioning his commitment and hounding him out.
Don't fans get punished if they buy tickets for away fans in the home end? If so then surely Foster has broken the rules even if he didn't buy them?
Bachmann in goal because Foster has a U Tube channel? I doubt Bachmann would be first choice in any Premier League team, and less than ten Championship teams. He really is not very good.
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The players get allocated tickets by the club but yes guess there are certain things you are supposed to try and avoid. Apparently they don’t have to get kicked out unless they are really mis-behaving and it’s at the discretion of the stewards so this guy really must have been doing something bad! And going by his language and attitude after getting booted he probably won’t a being a right gobby one .
The fact that he was booted out of the ground, then booted out of a pub - and his subsequent reaction to both - suggests that he is a complete *******. Quite frankly, regardless of what he did, the fact that match tickets ended up in his hands via Foster is enough to make me question Foster’s judgement.
Quite agree . A case of Ben bring foolish to trust such a bloke . Bet he won’t be trying such acts at Old Trafford this weekend !
Apologies if seen/ already posted but it’s in the Mail, there is also a link to his Instagram showing him being chucked out: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/f...gave-Liverpool-fan-Paddy-Pimblett-ticket.html
It's going to be dealt with internally by the club according to the Wobby. In other words nothing will happen.
Even if Paddy Pissant were a Watford supporter, I'd want him thrown out on the grounds of that whingy winey little squeek of a voice he has. I wonder if he does 'jive talk' to his opponents before his fights? It must be hard for the other fella not to laugh in response to the little castrato squeek "Aahm gonna doooo yoooo, may-TT!"
Shout out to the Watford Observer’s photo editor who has chosen this lovely image of Foster getting pally with yet more opposition players for an article that doesn’t even relate to him. Wonderfully snide work.
