I'm quite prepared to agree that he was unable to function in a Villa shirt due to depression, but to have the brass neck to make out that he's our greatest fan when in effect he never gave a monkeys is taking the biscuit.
Quote from: Chas N'Dave Cooper on November 25, 2011, 08:08:00 PMQuote from: gaucho1966 on November 25, 2011, 08:04:37 PMBollocks to SVC. He is making a career of being a professional Villa fan, when in reality he stiffed us royally without even a kiss my arse. Churchill won the war with crippling depression, SVC couldn't even put shift in on £40,000 odd a week.There's always one, or in our case, two.I'm quite prepared to agree that he was unable to function in a Villa shirt due to depression, but to have the brass neck to make out that he's our greatest fan when in effect he never gave a monkeys is taking the biscuit.
Quote from: gaucho1966 on November 25, 2011, 08:04:37 PMBollocks to SVC. He is making a career of being a professional Villa fan, when in reality he stiffed us royally without even a kiss my arse. Churchill won the war with crippling depression, SVC couldn't even put shift in on £40,000 odd a week.There's always one, or in our case, two.
Bollocks to SVC. He is making a career of being a professional Villa fan, when in reality he stiffed us royally without even a kiss my arse. Churchill won the war with crippling depression, SVC couldn't even put shift in on £40,000 odd a week.
Quote from: Rigadon on November 25, 2011, 08:53:33 PMI'm quite prepared to agree that he was unable to function in a Villa shirt due to depression, but to have the brass neck to make out that he's our greatest fan when in effect he never gave a monkeys is taking the biscuit.What are you on about? Why would you give a fuck how much of a 'fan' he is? This thread is about a horrible, horrible illness. Some people on here have bared their souls a bit so show some respect for that. Post your vitriol somewhere else eh?
Now, go and cry over your Stan Collymore shirt you big twat.
Quote from: Rigadon on November 25, 2011, 09:58:07 PMNow, go and cry over your Stan Collymore shirt you big twat. I think you've said it all. Just because you've been ill it doesn't give you the right to be abusive.
I wonder just how much sympathy Stan Collymore would receive had he been your average joe with a 9-5 job? With his fame and fortune comes great opportunity and with that tremendous pressure .I feel sympathy for anyone suffering from depression, it is a terrible illness.Those on the outside looking in can easily say "what's he got to be depressed over" before pointing out all of the things he's been able to do in his life that many of us would love to do.For beating his girlfriend up, wasting a god given talent and generally making downright stupid decisions I can have no sympathy.Yes, these things can be attributed to his illness but that is offering a way out and from personal experience where i've had a mother and a brother in law in deep bouts of depression, excuses aren't what is needed.Would everyone on here be so sympathetic of Collymore had he been lets say Paul Tait for example? I somehow doubt it, but i'd like to think so. Collymore goes down as one of the biggest wastes of talent i've ever seen.The man had the lot as a footballer, though lacked the mental stability to match the talent.For a modern day equivalent i'd point to our very own Stephen Ireland, let's hope he doesn't suffer in the future.