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Questioning his future at the club is ridiculous, life isn’t black and whites people make mistakes, good people are still capable of doing stupid and even bad things. He’s not the first, he won’t be the last. Ledley King, Jonathan Woodgate, Van der Vaart, Luka Modric, all guilty of criminal offences in the past decade.
Questioning if he should remain as captain, from a purely PR viewpoint, I get. Questioning whether he should continue at the club is borderline hypocritical unless you yourself to have had the exact same attitude for the other players listed.
The only one of those who committed any sorts of offence whilst a Spurs player was King, who wasn't criminally charged but still had the captaincy taken off him for Keane anyway. And regardless, none of them committed a drink driving offence.
I'm heartbroken TBH. Hugo is literally the last player in our squad I'd have expected something like that from. Even if he hadn't been caught doing something asinexcusable, as reckless, as potentially dangerous and as unavoidable as drink driving, the fact remains - what the fuck was our captain doing out at 2.30am on a school night?
He is finished as Tottenham captain. He is likely finished as France captain and I'd be surprised if he is still here this time next year. Players like Firmino, Yaya Toure and Rio Ferdinand have shown that a drink driving offence doesn't necessarily mean the end of a footballers' career, but none of them played for Pochettino and none of them were their team's respective captains when it happened.
If Poch plays the PR smartly he'll tell him to come out and resign from the captaincy to make it look voluntary so he can keep picking him until a replacement is sourced.
A very sad day. As we are unlikely to find many better keepers than Hugo that we can afford and that want to come to Spurs.