Don’t think from what I say below that I am condoning his alleged misdemeanours but:
As my old Granny used to say, let (s)he who is without sin cast the first stone and,
No one knows what goes on behind closed doors.
As we used to say when our news came in papers: This time next week it’ll be wrapping our chips!
Just a couple of random thoughts to maybe make you smile. :-)
The problems are simple.
1) He is clearly not the sharpest tool in the shed.
2) He makes a ridiculous amount of money. (Not an issue to me, but an issue in the culture in which he lives)
3) He chooses to make his private life public on social media.
4) It’s not the first time he has fathered a child (to his ex-girlfriend, no less) while married to another woman, who also happens to be the mother of his three children.
5) He made the big mea culpa when the news of the first child happened, then tried his damnedest to hide the second one. (Not a quick learner: See (1) above!
6) He already got caught, in two very damaging ways, during the pandemic. Firstly, he had prostitues over for a Bunga Bunga. Secondly, it smacked off him seeming to believe that the rules for the whole country, let alone a married man with children, didn’t apply to him because he’s a very wealthy guy who can do whatever he wants.
7) He has started to become more outspoken, instead of less, with the Captain’s armband and his performances at times this season, especially at Newcastle, have been well below par.
8) What does all the above say about the Club, if the players picked him to represent them, but they don’t change their tune now it’s all public?
9) What does it say about Walker that he hasn’t had the class and fortitude to step forward in front of the players and say it’s time for him to step back from the role and sort out his off field drama?
10) Wonder how Pep, upper management and the ownership feels about all this nonsense sullying the club in the media?