Jermaine was jailed for 3 months last week after a drink-driving offence in Aylesbury.
It struck me that he presumably had expensive lawyers on the case ,if so he doesn't seem to have got much for his money.
He was allegedly driving to see his girlfriend in Bristol , having left his home in Barnet at 0430 after a night clubbing , during which he drank 4 glasses of wine , which seems a modest amount for such a long session.
Anyway he was driving while already disqualified ( I suppose it's easy to forget ) and using someone else's car without permission , so uninsured anyway ( well, we've all done that some time haven't we) .
But the next bit for me was that he blamed the satnav for being in Aylesbury .Although his girlfriend lives in Bristol he apparently needed help in getting there from his home in Barnet. The satnav directed him through Aylesbury .
I don't have satnav , tho to get to Bristol I don't miss it as unless it's changed it is, as far as I can remember , in the M4/M5 corner . But if I do ever get satnav I must remember not to buy the one that sends you to Aylesbury first .
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He's obviously even thicker than he appears (even if he does earn loads more than I do)
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Would he be (and I'm guessing here) a footballer?
Couldn't believe a couple of weeks ago that another player escaped a ban for speeding (according to the tabloids) because he was 'not familiar with the motoring laws'!
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>>Would he be (and I'm guessing here) a footballer?
What is a 'footballer'?
Sofa Spud
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What is a 'footballer'?
A 'fottballer' is young man with great skill in an activity which used to be a sport enjoyed by millions and run by local associations, but which is now a multi-million pound business controlled like any other business.
These young men often have their education disrupted, and despite being very highly paid if they are among the lucky few to make it to the top of the tree, their careers are ususally short and fragile, rarely lasting much beyond the age of 35.
At the peak of their careers, the vast sums which the lucky few are paid usually get spent on fast and flashy motor cars. Thereafter, they may well end up owning nothing (see under 'Gazza'), not even a car.
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So we have here someone who has:-
1 Stolen a car.
2 Driven it with no insurance.
3 Driven without a licence (disqualified)
4 Driven whilst over the legal alcohol limit.
and he? (I've never heard of Germaine Pennant) gets only 3 months jail?
He? should get, in my opinion,
1 2 years for drink driving
2 1 year for no insurance
3 1 year for no licence
4 £2000 fine for stealing
5 £2000 fine to cover court/police costs.
The jail sentences to be done in full, and added together, ie 4 years.
If he is blaming satnav, then fine him? another £200 for wasting court time.
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If he's blaming sat nav, why on earth aren't they getting him for driving without due care and attention.
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Suspect he's not the sharpest tool in the box. Part of his defence was that he had to get somebody to read the formwork for the first ban to him. They got it wrong and that was why he thought he wsa now OK to drive again.
Never tried satnav but suspect it's pretty easy to misdirect yourself if your reading and spelling are not up to snuff.
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What the hell does sat nav have to do with it? What kind of excuse is being in the wrong place?
Sorry your honor, I was drunk, uninsured, banned and in a stolen car, but as I was in the wrong place then thats ok!
HIs brief must come from the same box of blunt tools that he does.
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In fairness briefs act on the "instructions" of their clients. They can be somewhat bizzare at times....
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Footballers...says it all. They come across as thinking they are gods and no-one is as worthy as they. You could argue they have a point when fans are happy to allow themselves to be ripped off with inflated ticket prices, inflated club shirt prices and the cynical way they let themslves be milked by 'their' clubs. I used to love football, going to matches having a laugh getting wrapped up in the atmosphere etc. but I know when I'm being made a mug of.
Footballers can do one thing well and get paid a disproportionate amount of money for it, I mean it's not exactly like saving someones life, come to think of it, it doesn't even come close. They think they are above us mere mortals and when they do wrong all their minders, managers etc. come rushing to their side. Look at the Rio Ferdinand case.
And we are left to wonder why youth is in such a state of indiscipline, just look at their role models!
Phew! I enjoyed that.
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Forget the fact that he is a footballer. He is not representative of all footballers, in the same way that a City type nicked for drink drive/disqual etc is not representative of all city types.
The difference is this. If he didn't have the talent to be a footballer, and bearing in mind his apparent lack of academical qualifications, he would have been one of the kids hanging around outside the local Macdonalds causing aggravation. You'd think the bloke earning £5k per week? month? (can't remember) would have just a scintilla of savvy to feel that he is oh....so....lucky and privileged. The bloke blew it. Deserved what he got. In fact, probably deserved more. I detest anyone who blames excess on success (footballer, ballet dancer, film star etc)
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What are "academical qualifications"? One too many L's I feel!
Sorry to be a pedant!
Football - 22 men kicking around a bit of leather on a bit of grass! Don't see the point!
I certainly don't see why they should be paid stupid amounts of money. Still as long as stupid people are prepared to pay stupid prices to see stupid acts then the stupid footballers can ask for stupid amounts in their pay packets.
Now I'm not so sure who are the stupid ones. Those who watch or those who play?
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I *still* don't know who/what he is!
Although I do have a fair idea of what he is.
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I *still* don't know who/what he is!
Ah, at least I'm not on my own. I had to Goodgle his name...
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I *still* don't know who/what he is! Ah, at least I'm not on my own. I had to Goodgle his name...
There's another recent thread floating around that mentions it, besides being mentioned in this one a couple of times.
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What the hell does sat nav have to do with it? What kind of excuse is being in the wrong place? Sorry your honor, I was drunk, uninsured, banned and in a stolen car, but as I was in the wrong place then thats ok! HIs brief must come from the same box of blunt tools that he does.
Sory RF wasn't attempting mitigation. Was uggesting that dim wit, or said on the Justice thread thought the verdict and sentence was right.
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He? should get, in my opinion,
[snip]
Ah, but maybe the Judge had heard this song: www.leoslyrics.com/listlyrics.php?hid=R8Q7Bb9bR6I%...D
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Barely germane to the thread, but the footballing fraternity do tend to get highly paid and very ingenious lawyers to deal with their cases.
8< snip 8<
Allegations, whether true or otherwise, removed. We don't want those ingenious lawyers dealing with us.
DD.
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As a comparison, two youth players from Man United have just been sentenced to 9 months and 12 months in a youth detention centre.
neither was drunk, in fact only one of them was involved in a crash at all, but they were 'having a race' apparently. I have no idea if the courts can/do increase sentences in such a situation?
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I've never 'eard of 'im. To quote Marc Riley, "Jermaine Pennant? whooooo?"
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Seems he's out on a "tag" after 31 days of a three month stretch served.
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From what I have read above (I don't follow football), I am surprised that the offside rule seems so complicated.
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Offside rule, isn't that when the law of land tells you to drive on the left...?
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Ah well, that's good old British justice for you. The best that money can buy.....
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Look, I really think what us mere serfs need to appreciate is just how lucky we are in comparison with the likes of these sporting superstars.
I mean, just imagine having to do some training and kick a ball around with your mates a couple of times a week. It really doesn't bear thinking about! But then add having the problem of constantly needing to worry about how to avoid supertax on your massive income/investments and what to spend the vast sums which appear in your account every week on. Add to that all the consternation associated with having to own and use several luxury homes, cars etc. Just think for a minute about the horror these people have to go through when deciding which exclusive hotel, restaurant. club, resort etc. to go to. It must be utter hell and to cap it all the prospect of filling out their self assessment tax returns which simply confirm the worst - i.e. that they've only earned £3m that year and despite having the best tax specialists on their side they're still going to have to pay some tax!
So ordinary folk, think yourselves truly fortunate that the only worries you have are having to paying the mortgage for another decade or 2 because your endowments have failed; saving more of what little money you've got left to make up for the fact that your hard earned pension fund has bombed; avoiding falling foul of the PC culture and EU human rights laws when tackling an intruder and not contracting MRSA when you finally go into hospital to get your ingrowing toenail fixed after a year long wait; getting a recorded announcement when you dial 999 in an emergency and finding that the local police have gone home!
The trouble is you people just don't know how lucky you are and just how hard life could be if you were forced to be a ....
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footballer.
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I really don't see the need for that.
So he's a footballer, so he earns a lot. If someone were willing to pay you millions for what you were good at, would you say no?
Some people are luckier than others, it's the way it's always been, it's the way it always will be. There's no answer other than to get on with your own life the best you can. Being bitter or angry about what others get helps no-one, least of all yourself.
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Not bitter or even angry Bazza - just lacking in sympathy for someone who's got no real excuse and who by any standards is extremely fortunate.
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So it would have been better if he had been poor ? Or more acceptable if he worked in a factory ?
1) How silly ?
2) How absolutely nothing to do with motoring.
Keep it motoring or get it locked..
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Clearly not Mark - however given his wealth, resources and profile he has far less excuses for what he did than someone much less fortunate and without the advice and numerous options open to him. As I recently said in another thread the outcome is the same whoever's at the wheel - for me it would however be just a bit easier to bear if the offender at least had some understandable explanation for his/her actions.
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Not bitter or even angry Bazza - just lacking in sympathy for someone who's got no real excuse and who by any standards is extremely fortunate.
Oh, I've got no argument with that. But the reason for my lack of sympathy is down to him being an idiot who drunk-drove, nothign to do with him being a footballer.
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