Bannan arrested following M1 car crash (now suspended by AVFC)

[supertom]

You only need look at the ex plymouth keeper currently in jail. Footballers sometimes seem to think their shit doesn't stink and they're untouchable. Drinking and driving is moronic. You get the sense though, sometimes these young lads with too much cash and a profile, think they can get away with it. Bannan could have killed someone. He could have injured himself, ended his career even. He's a lucky boy. Will he learn? I hope so. He needs to wake up though and start working harder. He's not as good as he thinks he is. Sometimes he gave the impression, when O Neill was here, that he had a divine right to be in the team. I personally don't think he's done nearly enough to be a regular starter just yet. We have to see far more.

Apart from anything else, when we lose a game having playing piss poorly, I don't want to hear about our players having been out on the lash. A couple of drinks if we win is one thing, but given how crap we've been much of this season so far, the bloody lot of them shouldn't touch a drop. Overpaid buggers.

 

Sorry, bad mood. Midway through a LOOOONNNNG week at work.

[Legion]

Bannan has been suspended by the club while an investigation is carried out into the allegations made over the weekend. He will not be available for Sunderland.

[PaulWinch again]

Not good if true and an idiotic thing to do.

[Shrek]

Well this season just gets worse, are we in a position to take the moral high ground?

[villan1975]

Innocent until proven guilty.
No excuse if true and deserves the full force of the law.

[spangley1812]

mmmm this is getting worse by the minute..........

[Dave]

Are we in a position to take the moral high ground?

We're always in a position to take the moral high ground. It's what we do.

[PeterWithesShin]

Well this season just gets worse, are we in a position to take the moral high ground?

Us as fans or the club?

If you mean the club of course they are right to do this. I'd be pissed off they didn't.

[villa `cross the mersey]

Sorry but if they are guilty then I hope they throw the book at him. I also hope Villa apply the strictest punihsment they can.

and here's me thinking our young players had been brought up to not behave like this

I think you find that it is the "Academy" and not the "Monastery"   ... this is  what happens when you pay young chaps £20k per week -

[dAVe_d]

Deleted his twitter account by the looks of it.

[SO Villa]

Is this a new club policy as there's been players charged with driving offences in the past without this kind of sanction?

[villa `cross the mersey]

Perhaps he was driving beyond the 30mile exclusion zone !

[F. Austin Purcell]

If true, what is happening to our footballers, wasn't it reported on here that Dunne and Collins where seen together in B'ham CC on Sat night drinking and smoking and as if they didn't have a care in the world.

They dont . They kick a ball around for a few hours and get paid mega mega money .

Even so, after the WBA game nobody can be that thick and that insensitive surely.

If I have a shit day at work then a few beers out is just the tonic

True, but I'm assuming you don't get 30,000 people pay £35 to watch you work every day.
Pertinent quote of the day from Yohan Cabaye  "If you meet other players in the street, or even within the club, you wonder if they really are professionals.

"On the pitch they give their all. They're 100 per cent focused on football and getting the result.

"But once the game is over, irrespective of whether they have played well or not, they are all joking and singing."

[brian green]

In a peverse way the little bit of good which might come out of it is that Ireland might see Bannan pressing the self destruct button and take his own finger off it.   Or put another way he will lose the title of squad's biggest dick head.

[Somniloquism]

Is this a new club policy as there's been players charged with driving offences in the past without this kind of sanction?

I don't remember any of them being charged for such a serious offence as it sounds like Bannan might be. We have had speeders and accidents but I don't remember DUI charges. Or maybe he has been warned by the club in the past for his excesses and this was the accumulation of several incidents within the club. It could also be McCleish bringing in a different policy on behaviour.