Legohead
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Jamie Carragher has just been suspended by Sky Sports for the now infamous spitting incident after the Man U v Liverpool game at the weekend.
Ordinarily i'd be panning Carragher for this but when i read into the lead up to the incident i mellowed a little.
Yes what Carragher did was totally unacceptable given the circumstances, even if he wasn't a figure in the public eye it would still remain so. I would hope that would be a widespread view. However, this is another example that highlights the obsession that many people have nowadays with filming anything and everything on their mobile phones.
According to the report, the man involved in the incident who was driving the other car in traffic alongside Carragher spent many minutes leading up to the incident filming Carragher and passing comment. All Carragher was doing was minding his own business and then he gets some grinning buffoon alongside him filming him and shouting comments. I'd have found that intrusive and annoying too to be honest. Have these morons got nothing better to do than whip their phones out every few seconds to film banal crap? Not to mention he was using a mobile phone at the wheel.
IMO Carragher should be sacked. He has apologized and acknowledged that his behaviour was completely unacceptable however i also think the ****** in the other car should get the appropriate punishment for using his phone at the wheel and go on an awareness course of how not to be a ****. I mean what an example to set to your 14 year old daughter who was sat alongside him. Goading a stranger and filming it. What is tech turning us into?
This on the back of the game 5 minutes from my house between Chesterfield and Lincoln at the weekend. As many of you will probably be aware, an air ambulance had to be called to the Proact Stadium due to a fan being taken seriously ill. The helicopter had to land in the middle of the pitch and there were many reports from people i know who go and also on their forum of a lot of fans recording the man receiving life saving treatment. Does anyone know the boundaries of respect and privacy anymore?
Anyway the Carragher incident. Storm in a teacup i guess but it does highlight a more sinister sign of changes in behaviour induced by having the ability to film things in an instant.
Ordinarily i'd be panning Carragher for this but when i read into the lead up to the incident i mellowed a little.
Yes what Carragher did was totally unacceptable given the circumstances, even if he wasn't a figure in the public eye it would still remain so. I would hope that would be a widespread view. However, this is another example that highlights the obsession that many people have nowadays with filming anything and everything on their mobile phones.
According to the report, the man involved in the incident who was driving the other car in traffic alongside Carragher spent many minutes leading up to the incident filming Carragher and passing comment. All Carragher was doing was minding his own business and then he gets some grinning buffoon alongside him filming him and shouting comments. I'd have found that intrusive and annoying too to be honest. Have these morons got nothing better to do than whip their phones out every few seconds to film banal crap? Not to mention he was using a mobile phone at the wheel.
IMO Carragher should be sacked. He has apologized and acknowledged that his behaviour was completely unacceptable however i also think the ****** in the other car should get the appropriate punishment for using his phone at the wheel and go on an awareness course of how not to be a ****. I mean what an example to set to your 14 year old daughter who was sat alongside him. Goading a stranger and filming it. What is tech turning us into?
This on the back of the game 5 minutes from my house between Chesterfield and Lincoln at the weekend. As many of you will probably be aware, an air ambulance had to be called to the Proact Stadium due to a fan being taken seriously ill. The helicopter had to land in the middle of the pitch and there were many reports from people i know who go and also on their forum of a lot of fans recording the man receiving life saving treatment. Does anyone know the boundaries of respect and privacy anymore?
Anyway the Carragher incident. Storm in a teacup i guess but it does highlight a more sinister sign of changes in behaviour induced by having the ability to film things in an instant.