If he was my son, brother, mate I would kick the shit out of him in the hope of wobbling his head. He had the world at his feet and is pissing it up. He has more than enough money to seek help. The club have bent over backwards.Blue Mist said:Where have you heard this? I cant find anything on the 'net.
Also just a thought, instead of sacking him how about the club helping him. We have enough money to afford his wages now lets show we have some compassion and to be fair I think the club ARE showing that in bucketfuls so full marks to them.
The lads head is obviously in a bad place so please before the board descends into a 'Johnson out' campaign just think if it was your son/brother/mate.
Manchester City footballer Michael Johnson is set to appear in court after he was arrested on suspicion of drink driving twice.
The injury-plagued 24-year-old has been charged with two separate offences following two alleged incidents.
In the first, at 11.50pm on February 24, Johnson was stopped in a black Mercedes close to Blackfriars viaduct on Bridgewater Way in Manchester city centre by officers on patrol.
He was breathalysed and arrested on suspicion of drink driving.
While on bail for that offence, Johnson was arrested again after an early-hours smash in Trafford.
Police were called to Grangethorpe Road, in Urmston, at 3.40am on May 31 after a Mercedes CLS 350 hit a parked BMW X5. He was arrested on suspicion of drink driving and taken to Trafford General Hospital.
Johnson was bailed pending the results of a blood test and subsequently charged.
He is due before Manchester Magistrates Court on September 25 where it is thought both cases may be joined.
Johnson, who has long been touted as one of City’s brightest academy graduates, has been charged with driving a motor vehicle while his alcohol level was above the legal limit and driving while unfit through drink in connection with the first incident and driving while his alcohol was above the legal limit with the second.
He made his first-team debut in 2006 before going on to represent England under-19s.
Many Blues, including then manager Sven Goran Eriksson, believed he would go on to represent England and in 2009 he signed a five-year contract with the club.
But he has been plagued by injuries with a ruptured cruciate ligament in training prompting a long spell on the sidelines.
Johnson, who is from Urmston, battled back to full fitness in time for the 2010-11 season.
He began last season on loan at Leicester but made just seven appearances for the east Midlands outfit before coming back to City for the latter part of the campaign.
Johnson's last appearance for City came in a 5-1 Carling Cup win over Scunthorpe in 2009.
coleridge said:The report was on the MUEN site [main news section] yesterday.
A sad end seems inevitably near. Are you watching AJ?
Prestwich_Blue said:Just to clarify - he has been arrested twice for drink driving but these were in February and May this year. He is due in court on both charges on September 25th.
http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereve...johnson-due-in-court-on-drink-driving-charges
I think he means to his career and/or life.Millwallawayveteran1988 said:coleridge said:The report was on the MUEN site [main news section] yesterday.
A sad end seems inevitably near. Are you watching AJ?
A sad end? This pisshead had a contract worth £12.5m. £7m after tax! He won the lottery the day he signed that.
Blue Mist said:Where have you heard this? I cant find anything on the 'net.
Also just a thought, instead of sacking him how about the club helping him. We have enough money to afford his wages now lets show we have some compassion and to be fair I think the club ARE showing that in bucketfuls so full marks to them.
The lads head is obviously in a bad place so please before the board descends into a 'Johnson out' campaign just think if it was your son/brother/mate.
Johnson Out!Blue Mist said:Where have you heard this? I cant find anything on the 'net.
Also just a thought, instead of sacking him how about the club helping him. We have enough money to afford his wages now lets show we have some compassion and to be fair I think the club ARE showing that in bucketfuls so full marks to them.
The lads head is obviously in a bad place so please before the board descends into a 'Johnson out' campaign just think if it was your son/brother/mate.