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Its the drink driving that i'm most dissapointed about tbh matestrongbowholic said:
Once is terrible but twice is just fucking disgusting.
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Once is terrible but twice is just fucking disgusting.
dancity19 said:Awful. Really is horrible.
However, do people on this thread know more about the Johnson situation than I clearly do. Why has it moved into talks of suicide and depression etc?
Is this just complete and utter guesswork as to what he could be going through? Seems a bit intense to be now suggesting Johnson is a suicide worry...??
This is in no way meant to belittle the situation, or indeed make light of the issue, or the issue of suicide.
Just wondering why the thread has taken the turn, and perhaps I have missed a couple of pages?
I'm not claiming any insight. Don't know the bloke, don't know his issues or his personality. Don't know what support the club has given him, although I'll presume it has been significant.
But I just think the press need to be really careful when taking the piss out of people. Particularly when a lot of things in their life have taken a fairly dramatic downturn in recent years.
For all I know he couldn't give a toss about his career, or his weight or his future. And he could be perfectly happy with his life as it is.
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He signed his contract in 2008 not 2009 so it expires at the end of this season
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I think you want the Joey Barton/Didi Hamman thread.Tom_mcfc said:Why are people angry with the op and not the fat, gambling, drink driving waster who has stole a living off our football club?
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Who knows what we have done for him, flown in specialist doctors and surgeons, employed psychologists and everything along with it.
He can have a meeting at carrington with Paul Lake and a world class dietician and sports psychologist, if he wants to he will go to his local on the way home and get smashed. Only he can change himself now and I hope that he can.
He can have a meeting at carrington with Paul Lake and a world class dietician and sports psychologist, if he wants to he will go to his local on the way home and get smashed. Only he can change himself now and I hope that he can.
JosMCFC said:Barton the wanker is say it was too much ££ & pressure .... Eh wanker has it nothing to do with the injurys he suffered ..... Knobhead
You try returning from injury going on the lash all the time
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Agree with that mate. He is going to deserve any punishment meted out for those offences. In fact it may be the punishment that finally helps him face up to it all and use the help he needs?The cookie monster said:Its the drink driving that i'm most dissapointed about tbh matestrongbowholic said:An unfortunate choice of phrase, but you can lead a horse to water but you can;t make it drink. Perhaps the club is trying to get him sorted out, but maybe he isn't in a space where he is willing to acknowledge that he needs help and accepts that help?The cookie monster said:How do you know the club are not supporting him and trying to get him in shape
And he just isnt interested?
Once is terrible but twice is just fucking disgusting.
Just see the attached in The Guardian from Daniel Taylor
Michael Johnson released as Manchester City finally lose patience• Johnson offered a severance package before Christmas
• Midfielder last played for the club in October 2009
Michael Johnson, once tipped as an England international and one of the best young players to emerge through Manchester City's academy in the last decade, has been paid off from his contract after the club finally ran out of patience with him.
Johnson, convicted of two drink-driving offences last September, was offered a severance package from his £40,000-a-week contract just before Christmas after several years in decline. The club decided not to announced it publicly but it has come to light now after a photograph of the 24-year-old appeared on the Internet looking bloated and unfit.
Once the subject of a £10m bid from Liverpool, the former England youth international has suffered a series of injury problems but also caused considerable disquiet behind the scenes because of his attitude towards being a professional footballer and, specifically, his fondness for a night out.
His last appearance for the club was as a second-half substitute in a Carling Cup tie against Scunthorpe in October 2009. Sven-Goran Eriksson once said he would not swap Johnson even for Steven Gerrard but the days when he was described as "the new Colin Bell," breaking into City's first team at the age of 18, were short-lived.
Roberto Mancini and his predecessor, Mark Hughes, both concluded that Johnson did not have the personality to play football at the highest level. At one point City were so embarrassed by his unkempt state in his pen-pic club sources say the photographer was asked to come back to take it again.
Johnson was moved to Leicester City two years ago, on a season-long loan that cost the Championship club £1m, but was signed off, then sent back, at the midway point.
After that, almost nothing had been heard of him until he crashed his car, over the drink-drive limit, in Manchester last May. It was one of two occasions when he has been arrested for drink-driving in the space of three months, leading to a £5,500 fine and three-year driving ban.
Michael Johnson released as Manchester City finally lose patience• Johnson offered a severance package before Christmas
• Midfielder last played for the club in October 2009
Michael Johnson, once tipped as an England international and one of the best young players to emerge through Manchester City's academy in the last decade, has been paid off from his contract after the club finally ran out of patience with him.
Johnson, convicted of two drink-driving offences last September, was offered a severance package from his £40,000-a-week contract just before Christmas after several years in decline. The club decided not to announced it publicly but it has come to light now after a photograph of the 24-year-old appeared on the Internet looking bloated and unfit.
Once the subject of a £10m bid from Liverpool, the former England youth international has suffered a series of injury problems but also caused considerable disquiet behind the scenes because of his attitude towards being a professional footballer and, specifically, his fondness for a night out.
His last appearance for the club was as a second-half substitute in a Carling Cup tie against Scunthorpe in October 2009. Sven-Goran Eriksson once said he would not swap Johnson even for Steven Gerrard but the days when he was described as "the new Colin Bell," breaking into City's first team at the age of 18, were short-lived.
Roberto Mancini and his predecessor, Mark Hughes, both concluded that Johnson did not have the personality to play football at the highest level. At one point City were so embarrassed by his unkempt state in his pen-pic club sources say the photographer was asked to come back to take it again.
Johnson was moved to Leicester City two years ago, on a season-long loan that cost the Championship club £1m, but was signed off, then sent back, at the midway point.
After that, almost nothing had been heard of him until he crashed his car, over the drink-drive limit, in Manchester last May. It was one of two occasions when he has been arrested for drink-driving in the space of three months, leading to a £5,500 fine and three-year driving ban.