Quote: DaveO "Nonsense. There are no analogies between what Clarkson did and coaching a sports team. The boot throwing was hugely controversial at the time and in any case any coach who assaulted one of their staff to the extent the police are getting involved would be fired no matter how good they are. It therefore does not follow "....allowances need to be made for star performers." when they do as Clarkson did.
You simply cannot let anyone get away with things like that.
We all know "the luvvies" can be up their own backside and very demanding expecting subservience from all around in the same way we know sports coaches rant and rave but there are lines you can't cross whoever you are.
Oh and the idea a salesman who was fired for assault would have any clients to take anywhere is far fetched as well.'"
I think you are writing complete and utter nonsense. I've read one manager's account that if a player took a liberty of sitting in his seat in the coach and not moving he'd have to smack the player or else the rest of the squad would never respect him again.
Craig Bellemy adores Bobby Robson because Craig was a complete idiot and took liberties with a coach he had an issue with. Craig loves Bobby because the coach wanted Bobby to smack Bellemy down but Robson just backed Bellemy. That coach was probably out of that club within a couple of months.
You simply cannot apply the morality of the changing room of pro sports with the outside world. I'm telling you, if you've never actually been an insider you don't know what the people are like when no one's watching.
