Randolph 3rd choice.

Don’t think he’s a massive football lover. Basketball is his favourite sport
 
Diego said:
Don’t think he’s a massive football lover. Basketball is his favourite sport
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Weird when you get players like that isn’t it. I remember David hurst on soccer am said he doesn’t watch football and couldn’t name any players as he doesn’t really like the game. To him it was a job.
 
zorro_mfc said:
Weird when you get players like that isn’t it. I remember David hurst on soccer am said he doesn’t watch football and couldn’t name any players as he doesn’t really like the game. To him it was a job.
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Yeah, he’s said it in interviews and I sat behind him the dug outs in the game when we got beat off Crewe on penalties in the league cup under Woodgate and he was just watching basketball stuff on his phone and when I was talking about other teams scores on the night he was like oh didn’t even know they were playing tonight, seemed a nice guy but could tell football wasn’t his main passion
 
I think Viduka was the same, didn’t really like football was just ridiculously talented at it
 
Ex-Spurs player Assou-Ekotto had similar feelings:

“I have never bought into the hypocrisy of football but perhaps I'm more strident in my views now. I'm lucky and appreciate what I have, but football is just a job, a means to an end... there are more important things in life than kicking a ball around... Yes, I play for the money but then doesn't everybody who gets up in the morning and goes to work? They do it to provide for their family. It infuriates me when footballers go on about playing for the shirt. I think they should be held accountable for it when they kiss the badge and six months later clear off for a better pay day.”
 
zorro_mfc said:
Weird when you get players like that isn’t it. I remember David hurst on soccer am said he doesn’t watch football and couldn’t name any players as he doesn’t really like the game. To him it was a job.
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Why did they invite him on SOCCER Am then one wonders?
 
Diego said:
Bit different though isn’t it.
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Why do fans think this when players tell them differently.
I have lost count over the years of FMTTM how often this comes up.
It is a bit different for you because you are not good enough to do what would have been living the dream and playing for the Boro.
For the players they have seen the reality, which includes things like worrying where you'll be playing at the end of this contract, what if you get injured, why am I always away from home at Christmas. Thats why, to them its a job.
 
norfolkngood said:
Why do fans think this when players tell them differently.
I have lost count over the years of FMTTM how often this comes up.
It is a bit different for you because you are not good enough to do what would have been living the dream and playing for the Boro.
For the players they have seen the reality, which includes things like worrying where you'll be playing at the end of this contract, what if you get injured, why am I always away from home at Christmas. Thats why, to them its a job.
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Ok it’s a job now that I get but surely you must have had love for the sport to start playing it to begin with, that the bit I don’t get, and hhsts why it’s different to Asda Tesco etc.

Yes for foreign players using it as a way out of the ghetto I completely get why they have no interest but David hurst and batty surely the love must have been there as kids.
 
norfolkngood said:
Why do fans think this when players tell them differently.
I have lost count over the years of FMTTM how often this comes up.
It is a bit different for you because you are not good enough to do what would have been living the dream and playing for the Boro.
For the players they have seen the reality, which includes things like worrying where you'll be playing at the end of this contract, what if you get injured, why am I always away from home at Christmas. Thats why, to them its a job.
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It is to some, not all.
 
DrummerMan said:
Not really, they are both getting paid for working... just because fans may love the club, doesn't mean the staff do - if you think that you're deluded
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Hahah calm yourself down Tamberineboy. A lot of footballers do love the game and just happen to get paid for their ultimate passion. Some see it as a job. If you don’t think getting paid thousands of pounds a week for playing football in front of adoring fans is different to stacking shelves in a supermarket then it is indeed you are deluded
 
What I don’t get is how someone can find out they are so talented to the degree they can forge a career out of something they do not like. They must all have liked or enjoyed it at some point to get to the level they did surely?

That said, i guess there are aspects of the beautiful game that might make someone dislike their job, a lad I know was a particularly talented young footballer but really hated the ‘off the pitch’ side of the game so walked away from offers made by Leeds and Boro to become a particularly talented bricklayer. Football nowadays though is not so much a job as a potential lifestyle for those that make it to the top. I guess it is like any job if you do it long enough, you can grow to dislike it, but carry on for the money and lifestyle a job affords you.
 
I remember Ray Hankin telling me he loved football when he was with his mates at Burnley. The day he was transfered for the first time it became a job. Got the Monday morning blues the same as the rest of us.
 
coluka said:
What I don’t get is how someone can find out they are so talented to the degree they can forge a career out of something they do not like. They must all have liked or enjoyed it at some point to get to the level they did surely?

That said, i guess there are aspects of the beautiful game that might make someone dislike their job, a lad I know was a particularly talented young footballer but really hated the ‘off the pitch’ side of the game so walked away from offers made by Leeds and Boro to become a particularly talented bricklayer. Football nowadays though is not so much a job as a potential lifestyle for those that make it to the top. I guess it is like any job if you do it long enough, you can grow to dislike it, but carry on for the money and lifestyle a job affords you.
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Exactly I grew up with a lad that went on to play for the boro and other clubs and he was football daft every minute of every weekend you’d see him on the school field playing football.
 
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