- Jun 24, 2008
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I get that what Defoe did for the lad was really nice and beyond the usual, but why do people then start suggesting he be knighted etc. There are thousands of people from much tougher backgrounds who give up their lives to help others every day and get nothing but the shit end of the stick, I find it fucking irritating that the minute a celebrity behaves like a human being people want them canonised.
He did a good thing. Lets recognise it and applaud it, but lets not put him on a pedestal above people doing this every hour of every day, for shit pay and long hours without overtime pay above and beyond. They are the the real heroes.
I'm not particularly bothered if he gets one but I do agree with this. He hasn't changed my opinion of footballers. There have always been a fair amount that do good deeds on the regular.