Phil is lucky he's a valuable well paid footballer and not a guy doing a normal job.
A few years back I was working on a Townsend Thoresen ferry out of Felixstowe. In those days we had a crew bar and were allowed a drink. The day crew would all finish around midnight and everywhere close with just a skeleton night crew on duty. Of course for the passengers there was little to do but sleep. A few of the lads would go around asking any single women if they wanted to come to a party in the crew bar. Most did so. Needless to say things got a little wild on occasion.
In those days I lived with my parents and had a few days leave. On getting up my mum handed me the Sunday paper and said, " Have you seen this?? I'm sure it's the ship you're working on." There on the front page in huge headlines was "Townsend Thoresen crew shame!" or similar with "Sex and drugs parties onboard." Some female undercover reporter had done a right job on the lads. She'd been invited to the party, took pictures, named names the lot. The end result was about 10 lads got the sack. They couldn't prove drugs were taken and drinking was allowed but they were sacked for having passengers in crew quarters. Harsh but we knew the rules. The same thing happened a lot on cruise ships. These were all young lads and expressed regret but it made no difference sacked they were.
As I said Phil is lucky he's a valuable asset. He'll get his knuckles rapped, maybe a fine and have to eat humble pie for a bit but he won't lose his well paid career.
A few years back I was working on a Townsend Thoresen ferry out of Felixstowe. In those days we had a crew bar and were allowed a drink. The day crew would all finish around midnight and everywhere close with just a skeleton night crew on duty. Of course for the passengers there was little to do but sleep. A few of the lads would go around asking any single women if they wanted to come to a party in the crew bar. Most did so. Needless to say things got a little wild on occasion.
In those days I lived with my parents and had a few days leave. On getting up my mum handed me the Sunday paper and said, " Have you seen this?? I'm sure it's the ship you're working on." There on the front page in huge headlines was "Townsend Thoresen crew shame!" or similar with "Sex and drugs parties onboard." Some female undercover reporter had done a right job on the lads. She'd been invited to the party, took pictures, named names the lot. The end result was about 10 lads got the sack. They couldn't prove drugs were taken and drinking was allowed but they were sacked for having passengers in crew quarters. Harsh but we knew the rules. The same thing happened a lot on cruise ships. These were all young lads and expressed regret but it made no difference sacked they were.
As I said Phil is lucky he's a valuable asset. He'll get his knuckles rapped, maybe a fine and have to eat humble pie for a bit but he won't lose his well paid career.