Franny Lee's Barrel Chest said:
*This is assuming he wasn't too pissed to give the breath specimens.
He was taken to hospital after the accident, so its likely they wouldn't have a breath analyser there, which probably explains why he had a blood test instead, but none of us know why.
I love how people condemn so quickly, demanding jail etc, without knowing anything about the case. When I last looked he was still one of our players, yet some of the reaction from so called fans in this thread is bordering on ridiculous, he'd probably have got less grief if he'd been a united player.
He's still a young footballer who lets face it, has had it both easy and difficult in his career so far, easy in the sense he had the talent to do what most of us football lovers will never get, yet difficult in that he has been plagued by injuries, some minor, some niggling, and one pretty serious, an injury which has ended many a career. I'm sure its quite depressing if you are a professional sportsman, and depression often leads to drink. In his time with us, he's been at a club who suddenly went from relegation scrappers, to lottery winning champions. Even without the injuries, he'd probably have gone from near the top of the pecking order, to virtually the bottom.
His drinking may or may not be related to that, and it may or may not be a serious issue in his life, personally I'm glad he didn't kill someone, or himself, and for now wish him well, and hope he can get through yet another difficult period in his life, all be it one of his own making this time.
I also hope the club act well in this matter, if he is indeed charged with drink driving, I hope they don't just ditch him like some would like, I hope they help get him the help he probably needs. He probably is surplus to requirements at the club now, but that is no reason for them to abandon him at this time.
His footballing future should not be over either, even if it is at City, and hopefully City and the PFA will help him get another team, so that he can have a chance of utilising some of his talent in the years he has left in football.
