Mad Eyed Screamer
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Not even Rooney and his legal team could come up with one!
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“Offensive” Spurs banner re: Alonso
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GaudinoMotors
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Ecclestone justice.
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Lost a mate at uni to a drunk driver so I can’t stand the ****s.You seem to have spent alot of time researching the story online, I'll trust your impeccable judgement.
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drink drivers should face the same penalties as any other fuckwits who take life needlessly.
kaz7
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Racism and sexism etc should be punished with a lifetime ban but this banner was factual and offends just him as i doubt her family would watch him playing a game,in bad taste certainly
In the US they have "felony murder" where any person who dies while you taking any part in a felony, it counts as murder. Obviously drink driving isn't a felony as no one has a worse and more lenient attitude to drink driving than the yanks, but there is a lot to be said for that sort of punishment, as although accidental, you really should have to take a hell of a lot more responsibility for killing someone while doing something so inherently dangerous and reckless
inchy14
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Beyond sad for anyone to even think of driving after a few drinks, especially someone eating thousands a week who could pay for a taxi or even a chauffeur to drive them around.
Amended for accuracy. ****s trick and should be inside.
I’m amazed this hasn’t been reported before, without the banner non of us would be any the wiser about what a **** he is.
The Northern Baptist
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The banner is factual, yes. But so would a similar banner saying ‘Manslaughterers’ a match involving Liverpool in relation to their involvement at Heysel.
Both factual, neither are appropriate in the context of a football match.
Both factual, neither are appropriate in the context of a football match.
KnaresboroughBlue
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Maybe it was part of an drink driving awareness campaign. It wasn't on display in the ground according to the article and I can't really see much other reason for it at a match between Spurs and Huddersfield where Alonso obviously wasn't playing.
Anyway, if it was factual and only displayed outside the ground, I'm not sure what the big issue is with it really.
If nothing else, it seems to have highlighted something that for some reason didn't make headline news in the UK (or at least I and others on this thread didn't seem to know about it before).
Anyway, if it was factual and only displayed outside the ground, I'm not sure what the big issue is with it really.
If nothing else, it seems to have highlighted something that for some reason didn't make headline news in the UK (or at least I and others on this thread didn't seem to know about it before).
I don't know the lad but I doubt he dances round his front room celebrating killing someone. My guess is he thinks about it every day and will regret his actions for the rest of his life. Him doing a few years inside might make us all feel like justice has been done and serve as some kind of deterrent to others and in some ways might have made it easier for him to live with what he's done.