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Over recent weeks we've seen some pretty bad pictures of violence in various sports. So what has gone wrong with some of our sporting idols?
Football is now a massive and very high pressure game, as we've seen with Gerard Houlliers health scare, and will get bigger as advertising and t.v revenues increase, teams build large new stadiums, but some footballers are having a very negative effect on impressionable youth, who follow football like it was a religion.
A footballers career can be ended in an instant with a mis-placed or badly timed tackle, they can end up in early retirement or even crippled, but some of players get paid more money than some very important people like the Prime Minister, so that risk is more than compensated and reacting to bad tackles the way they do or dive around, trying to con the referee is sickening.
The pressure of expectation on a footballer's shoulders is huge and failure to produce the goods on the pitch can put them under large strain, but to see players arguing and fighting each other and even intimidating referees and referees asssistants is not what we want to show youngsters.
Footballers get paid all their money not just because of the size of the game, but also to be role models, and with players going out on drinking binges, urinating in restaurants, and even assaulting people terrible to the kids who look up to them. Sure some of these players are young and want to have a good time, but can't they have a good time and not act like yobs?
I've also noticed that many kids these days can't stop spitting on the street, sure some of that is partly due to all that nicotine running through their breathing tubes, but fooballers seem to do it too much. Couldn't they spit more descreatly?
It's not just fooball to blame, even yesterday at the Lewis-Tyson press conference violence errupted and before that on a television show before the lennox Lewis-Hasim Rahmann title fight, they ended up fighting on a table.
Famous boxers such as Mike Tyson and Lennox Lewis are big role models, mostly to under privileged or under educated inner city children who see people like Tyson come from the ghettos to be a world famous sporting multi-millionaire.
Again, boxing is high pressure and a rigorous and disciplined training regime is reqiured to be the best and, like football, it is a massive sport.This latest title fight (if it goes ahead remains to be seen) was going to be worth billions from sponsership and advertising, and would probably been one of the most bet-upon sporting events ever.
Boxing is a violent sport by nature, but if these idols can't control themselves outside the ring what do children make of it?
Even cricket has seen it's fair share of confrontations on the pitch over recent years, and that's supposed to be a gentleman's sport.
So please sports stars, stop acting like cave-men and start showing the nations youth some fair play and discipline or youngsters will think that sort of behaviour is acceptable.
Thanks for listening.
Football is now a massive and very high pressure game, as we've seen with Gerard Houlliers health scare, and will get bigger as advertising and t.v revenues increase, teams build large new stadiums, but some footballers are having a very negative effect on impressionable youth, who follow football like it was a religion.
A footballers career can be ended in an instant with a mis-placed or badly timed tackle, they can end up in early retirement or even crippled, but some of players get paid more money than some very important people like the Prime Minister, so that risk is more than compensated and reacting to bad tackles the way they do or dive around, trying to con the referee is sickening.
The pressure of expectation on a footballer's shoulders is huge and failure to produce the goods on the pitch can put them under large strain, but to see players arguing and fighting each other and even intimidating referees and referees asssistants is not what we want to show youngsters.
Footballers get paid all their money not just because of the size of the game, but also to be role models, and with players going out on drinking binges, urinating in restaurants, and even assaulting people terrible to the kids who look up to them. Sure some of these players are young and want to have a good time, but can't they have a good time and not act like yobs?
I've also noticed that many kids these days can't stop spitting on the street, sure some of that is partly due to all that nicotine running through their breathing tubes, but fooballers seem to do it too much. Couldn't they spit more descreatly?
It's not just fooball to blame, even yesterday at the Lewis-Tyson press conference violence errupted and before that on a television show before the lennox Lewis-Hasim Rahmann title fight, they ended up fighting on a table.
Famous boxers such as Mike Tyson and Lennox Lewis are big role models, mostly to under privileged or under educated inner city children who see people like Tyson come from the ghettos to be a world famous sporting multi-millionaire.
Again, boxing is high pressure and a rigorous and disciplined training regime is reqiured to be the best and, like football, it is a massive sport.This latest title fight (if it goes ahead remains to be seen) was going to be worth billions from sponsership and advertising, and would probably been one of the most bet-upon sporting events ever.
Boxing is a violent sport by nature, but if these idols can't control themselves outside the ring what do children make of it?
Even cricket has seen it's fair share of confrontations on the pitch over recent years, and that's supposed to be a gentleman's sport.
So please sports stars, stop acting like cave-men and start showing the nations youth some fair play and discipline or youngsters will think that sort of behaviour is acceptable.
Thanks for listening.
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Over recent weeks we've seen some pretty bad pictures of violence in various sports. So what has gone wrong with some of our sporting idols?
Football is now a massive and very high pressure game, as we've seen with Gerard Houlliers health scare, and will get bigger as advertising and t.v revenues increase, teams build large new stadiums, but some footballers are having a very negative effect on impressionable youth, who follow football like it was a religion.
A footballers career can be ended in an instant with a mis-placed or badly timed tackle, they can end up in early retirement or even crippled, but some of players get paid more money than some very important people like the Prime Minister, so that risk is more than compensated and reacting to bad tackles the way they do or dive around, trying to con the referee is sickening.
The pressure of expectation on a footballer's shoulders is huge and failure to produce the goods on the pitch can put them under large strain, but to see players arguing and fighting each other and even intimidating referees and referees asssistants is not what we want to show youngsters.
Footballers get paid all their money not just because of the size of the game, but also to be role models, and with players going out on drinking binges, urinating in restaurants, and even assaulting people terrible to the kids who look up to them. Sure some of these players are young and want to have a good time, but can't they have a good time and not act like yobs?
I've also noticed that many kids these days can't stop spitting on the street, sure some of that is partly due to all that nicotine running through their breathing tubes, but fooballers seem to do it too much. Couldn't they spit more descreatly?
It's not just fooball to blame, even yesterday at the Lewis-Tyson press conference violence errupted and before that on a television show before the lennox Lewis-Hasim Rahmann title fight, they ended up fighting on a table.
Famous boxers such as Mike Tyson and Lennox Lewis are big role models, mostly to under privileged or under educated inner city children who see people like Tyson come from the ghettos to be a world famous sporting multi-millionaire.
Again, boxing is high pressure and a rigorous and disciplined training regime is reqiured to be the best and, like football, it is a massive sport.This latest title fight (if it goes ahead remains to be seen) was going to be worth billions from sponsership and advertising, and would probably been one of the most bet-upon sporting events ever.
Boxing is a violent sport by nature, but if these idols can't control themselves outside the ring what do children make of it?
Even cricket has seen it's fair share of confrontations on the pitch over recent years, and that's supposed to be a gentleman's sport.
So please sports stars, stop acting like cave-men and start showing the nations youth some fair play and discipline or youngsters will think that sort of behaviour is acceptable.
Thanks for listening.
Football is now a massive and very high pressure game, as we've seen with Gerard Houlliers health scare, and will get bigger as advertising and t.v revenues increase, teams build large new stadiums, but some footballers are having a very negative effect on impressionable youth, who follow football like it was a religion.
A footballers career can be ended in an instant with a mis-placed or badly timed tackle, they can end up in early retirement or even crippled, but some of players get paid more money than some very important people like the Prime Minister, so that risk is more than compensated and reacting to bad tackles the way they do or dive around, trying to con the referee is sickening.
The pressure of expectation on a footballer's shoulders is huge and failure to produce the goods on the pitch can put them under large strain, but to see players arguing and fighting each other and even intimidating referees and referees asssistants is not what we want to show youngsters.
Footballers get paid all their money not just because of the size of the game, but also to be role models, and with players going out on drinking binges, urinating in restaurants, and even assaulting people terrible to the kids who look up to them. Sure some of these players are young and want to have a good time, but can't they have a good time and not act like yobs?
I've also noticed that many kids these days can't stop spitting on the street, sure some of that is partly due to all that nicotine running through their breathing tubes, but fooballers seem to do it too much. Couldn't they spit more descreatly?
It's not just fooball to blame, even yesterday at the Lewis-Tyson press conference violence errupted and before that on a television show before the lennox Lewis-Hasim Rahmann title fight, they ended up fighting on a table.
Famous boxers such as Mike Tyson and Lennox Lewis are big role models, mostly to under privileged or under educated inner city children who see people like Tyson come from the ghettos to be a world famous sporting multi-millionaire.
Again, boxing is high pressure and a rigorous and disciplined training regime is reqiured to be the best and, like football, it is a massive sport.This latest title fight (if it goes ahead remains to be seen) was going to be worth billions from sponsership and advertising, and would probably been one of the most bet-upon sporting events ever.
Boxing is a violent sport by nature, but if these idols can't control themselves outside the ring what do children make of it?
Even cricket has seen it's fair share of confrontations on the pitch over recent years, and that's supposed to be a gentleman's sport.
So please sports stars, stop acting like cave-men and start showing the nations youth some fair play and discipline or youngsters will think that sort of behaviour is acceptable.
Thanks for listening.