Kyle Walker

[JerryGarcia]

Laughing gas, helium. Taking 3 weak aspirins instead of 2 for a really bad headache. I've lived the life of a hardcore junkie apparently.

I've even had one or two more drinks than necessary from time to time.

I need to sort my life out.

The shame!

 

[tiger666]

Laughing gas, helium. Taking 3 weak aspirins instead of 2 for a really bad headache. I've lived the life of a hardcore junkie apparently.

I've even had one or two more drinks than necessary from time to time.

I need to sort my life out.

Sometimes I stay up very late.

 

[ItsBoris]

of course, I am not role model

No actually you are because I've arbitrarily decided so. Isn't that what people do with footballers? They never claim to be role models, which is why it's not surprising that we find that they aren't always exemplars of "perfect" human behavior.

So now that I've decided that you are a role model, do you mind if I scrutinize every aspect of your life and call you an idiot and disgrace when you fail to live up to my expectations?

 

[Sp3akerboxxx]

It is laughing gas. No news story.

 

[Spurs-USA]

Never thought Walker was a "Whippets*" kind of guy.

*that's what they're called at Phish shows stateside.

 

[Misfit]

Sometimes I stay up very late.

You're a dangerous lunatic. I've alerted the authorities!

 

[stov]

I shudder to think what a Spurs player could be found guilty of and still be defended by some Spurs fans

We like to rip the piss out of Chelsea fans for defending Terry or Liverpool fans for defending Suarez, but our lot have it in them, too. All fans are the same, you take the rough with the smooth

laughing gas vs biting + racism vs sleeping with your team mates missus + parking in disabled spot + being a ****.

 

[cwhite02]

Why do the media need to release a story which happened a while ago, a few days before one of countries biggest games?

 

[AW?]

They gave my ex girlfriend it at the hospital for the pain when she burned her hand badly, so how the hell is this even news worthy? Better still, why has this come out now seeing as it was from ages ago, do the media not rate him and want him out of the squad?

If it was in the middle of the World cup it would still be a non story. It's pathetic.

 

[Misfit]

They gave my ex girlfriend it at the hospital for the pain when she burned her hand badly, so how the hell is this even news worthy? Better still, why has this come out now seeing as it was from ages ago, do the media not rate him and want him out of the squad?

If it was in the middle of the World cup it would still be a non story. It's pathetic.

No he needs to be stopped before he hurts somebody else. What next, forgetting to turn his mobile off at a petrol station?

I bet the crazy bastard doesn't even turn off the TV if he goes into another room to get something. Forget about the damage to environment the unthinking monster is doing, what if that TV explodes? The resulting fire could burn down all the houses on the street. There could even be a child in one of those houses!

 

[dagraham]

Don't miss tomorrow's exclusive :

Jermain Defoe runs across the road when the Green man isn't showing!

In a total display of recklessness Defoe crossed a main road when the Red man was showing. Parents countrywide will be shocked at the potential bad influence this could have on the children who may have seen it.

Defoe later apologized saying "I'm a role model and I've let the fans, my teammates and my family down. Most of all though, I've let myself down"

 

[guiltyparty]

He isn't paid to be a role model, He is paid to play football. The sooner that Footballers aren't seen as 'role models' than just normal people who happen to be good at a sport we like, the better.

That's just an unbelievably naive take on the modern game

Footballers haven't been "just normal people" in decades

 

[guiltyparty]

Oh come on now. Are you really equating huffing a bit of gas with racism?

It's a complete non-story, that's why people are defending him. No harm done.

If he - or anybody else in our squad - was found guilty of racist abuse then it would obviously be a different story.

It was a purposefully harsh comparison. Point is, fans always seem to find a reason to defend their loved ones. A simple acknowledgement of "silly billy" is all that's needed, really. "Tsk" even. Instead, we have flat out denials that he's done anything untoward whatsoever. It's a slippery slope.

If it's a complete non-story, why are public apologies being issued? Because it's a story, that's why. It would obviously be a story, and do you think if he'd asked Spurs if he could inhale laughing gas in a public place while someone filmed it, they'd have signed off on it?

I did a load of poppers at a music festival once (I know, CRAZY). But you know what, I wouldn't have if I was a professional athlete and knew that there were journalists everywhere trying to make me look like a twat.

Dunno, maybe it's just me. Maybe I was born with a harmfully large amount of common sense

 

[TheAmerican]

Nitrous is fine. It makes you feel like you are floating/light-headed in a good way, and numb (drunken like). It has no long-term side effects, and if you take too much, you get nauseous. If you take it too much, you can have permanent effects, but 1 time isn't killer. There are companies that rent out nitrous/oxygen (needs to be mixed with it) flavored tanks for parties.

The media shoots at what they want, when they want. Kyle is not a bad person, he is just targeted. I wouldn't take this as him being a heavy partier or anything, he just tried something.

 

[guiltyparty]

Walker taking laughing gas is one thing but the English press trying to ruin English players careers and disrupt the team is another. It's happened loads of times now and this is just another example. Can you not see that standing up against these papers is different than blindly sticking up for a player? It's the same kind of bullshit that got Hoddle sacked from the England job. I'm fed up with it and they need to be held accountable.

Fair enough if you weren't defending them but it sure sounded like it, I don't think they deserve praise for what they do and I do consider them to have failed with this story because they've not got the reaction that they wanted. Well apart from a handful of people that believe everything they read but who cares about them?

I agree about papers, 100%, and if you have ever read my posts before, you will see I chastise them on a regular basis. They literally make up stories, and the whole disgusting industry of football allows it to go on. It's like one big game of really dodgy poker where all the players are calling each other's bluff, or a WMD war, each with a warehouse of shit on each other to stop anyone speaking out, stuck in a permanently depressing status quo.

My first reaction is always to doubt stories in the sport press, as they always have agendas – the writer's, the papers' owners', the agents and players behind the scenes', etc. But in this case there are photos, then Kyle comes out and apologises. As many have said, the effects of the gas is a non-story. This is not the point. It's that he's silly enough to do something so clearly provocative in public and think it wouldn't get splashed across the papers.

Hoddle was very unfairly treated professionally, but he also said some suicidal shit to reporters. Again, believe what you want to believe, but also be self-aware enough to know when your beliefs are off-the-chart mental

These are not little social clubs any more, they are huge, multimillion-dollar businesses, and whether people want to accept it or not, the players and managers are representatives of these sprawling empires. That's the job they signed up for, and that's the job they're paid a fortune for.

Talking about them like they're Stanley Matthews-esque, huge-shorted, combover local heroes is pure nostalgia and like the high street pretending Amazon doesn't exist

 

[DiamondLites]

Anyone who has a footballer or, any sports person for that matter, as their role model likely has borderline personality defects to begin with anyway

And anyone who has Kyle bloody Walker as their life role model is almost certainly already hepped up on goofballs and laughing gas, so it's a non event

 

[ItsBoris]

What's funny is that without the papers who claim that he is a 'bad influence on the children' we wouldn't even have known about the story. Ergo, there would be nothing to badly influence the children if the papers hadn't published the pictures of it lol.

 

[jyoshinmonchris]

It was a purposefully harsh comparison. Point is, fans always seem to find a reason to defend their loved ones. A simple acknowledgement of "silly billy" is all that's needed, really. "Tsk" even. Instead, we have flat out denials that he's done anything untoward whatsoever. It's a slippery slope.

If it's a complete non-story, why are public apologies being issued? Because it's a story, that's why. It would obviously be a story, and do you think if he'd asked Spurs if he could inhale laughing gas in a public place while someone filmed it, they'd have signed off on it?

I did a load of poppers at a music festival once (I know, CRAZY). But you know what, I wouldn't have if I was a professional athlete and knew that there were journalists everywhere trying to make me look like a twat.

Dunno, maybe it's just me. Maybe I was born with a harmfully large amount of common sense

The reason apologies are being given is part of what I find so infuriating about something like this. There's nothing wrong with what he did in my opinion, but the media have made out that there is, so the best course of action for him to take is to apologise for it. If he turns around and says that he did nothing wrong, then the media will go on a completely baseless witchhunt, but one which will have adverse effects on him, his career and his team. It's disgusting that they are allowed to do this kind of stuff. If the government has stated that it's ok for him to do, why are the papers allowed to say/infer otherwise?

Hell, I prefer knowing that he's a human being, and part of being one is that you need to get out and have some fun. If he hasn't done anything wrong, then we should defend him, that's what we're supposed to do. And defending him over this does not mean that we'll also defend him should he do something actually wrong.

 

[JimmyG2]

Smoking is legal but for the sake of his fitness and health he probably doesn't.
Drinking is legal but most players keep it under control in public or even abstain.
Inhaling legal but possibly dodgy substances from a balloon with your mates in a nightclub
or any other public place is ill advised for a young athlete representing his country at the start of a probably stellar career.
Though at 23 he is hardly a kid anymore.
The boy is a joker and lacks judgment on and off the pitch and an apology is completely in order.
Don't any of his Sheffield mates have houses?

 

[alfie103]

That's just an unbelievably naive take on the modern game

Footballers haven't been "just normal people" in decades

I don't see why it is. It is the media and their pathetic tactics and trying to build up football players and knocking them down so they can sell papers. You claim to understand what people are saying about the media but yet you are swallowing their awful 'moral' stories like mothers' milk.