- Aug 27, 2013
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His young son has breathing difficulties so naturally he is concerned about catching the virus and transmitting to his family.
He is putting his family before his career.
Any reasonable person would agree with his decision.
He is putting his family before his career.
Any reasonable person would agree with his decision.
Got to say that i'm getting more annoyed by Troy Deeney's comments at the moment - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52721397
I think he is definitely right to take the decision due to his personal circumstances of having a baby who has a known pre-existing condition to not go back to training and the club are right to support him in this.
However this statement is awful ""I can't get a haircut until mid-July but I can go and get in a box with 19 people and go and jump for a header and nobody could answer the questions". He simply doesn't understand how fundamentally different a training ground and a hairdressers is and is being given a platform to express this opinion - which is totally lacking in basic common sense and scientific understanding.
His issue about BAME players is also very misguided as he seems to think that the virus is specifically targeting ethnicity when in reality the evidence points towards two factors - socio-economic status of BAME people (which doesn't apply to PL footballers earning 10s of £k per week) and the likely impact that Vitamin D deficiency plays in the severity of C-19, where BAME people are more impacted, especially in the UK, which can be easily rectified by taking a supplement, something which frankly any high achieving sports professional (or at least their physios) should be well aware of and already doing.