No sympathy for overpaid football players threatening strike
 The English premier league is in a serious confidence crisis. Shortly after the serious gang rape allegations, another football (soccer) player, Leeds United's Jody Morris, was arrested over rape allegations.
As if that wasn't enough scandal, earlier this week Manchester United's and England's Rio Ferdinand "forgot" to turn up for a mandatory drug test. In principle, not taking a drug test is the same as testing positive. It is cheating. The Football Association (FA) thus decided that Ferdinand was not eligeble for the upcoming, and extremely important, European Cup qualifier against Turkey on Saturday. The England stars badly misread the public and threatened a strike, but quickly backed down considering the consequences would have been that England could be disqualified.
The Mirror pictures the country's pride on its front page (picture), with the headline "Who the HELL do you think you are?"
Our message to this jumped-up collection of egomaniacs is simple.
If you ever threaten to strike again then we will demand you are never picked to play for England in the future.
Now shut up, get back to work on your £50,000 a week salaries, and beat Turkey.
Other newspapers are also full of scorn for the young men who receive astronomic salaries for kicking a ball around. Most fans are not more generous, one writing on Football365 calling them "Nothing But Childish, Spoilt Brats."
The England players have had the worst possible prelude to the important away game against Turkey. But in the end, unless the association, the teams and the players look carefully at their own attitudes and behaviours, it can only go downhill from here.
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