Tuesday 12 May 2009

What Kind Of Question Is That…?

'I don't know if he had already been in the club or not but he looked so drunk that he might have been on something,' said Mr Wahib, 22. 'We told him that he was too drunk and that he needed to sober up.

'He walked across the road, opened his trousers and urinated all over the pavement in front of everybody,' alleged Mr Wahib.

'What kind of behaviour is that for a Premiership footballer?
Actually, pretty tame behaviour, Mr Wahib….

2 comments:

Edwin Greenwood said...

I think the Virgin media link is onto something here. I'm sure those inventive statistics-obsessed folk at Sky Sports News could work up a league table with columns for Arrests, Convictions and Cum. Sentence, with conversion factors applied to the latter to normalize them to "incarceration-day equivalents" (IDEs).

Cue studio discussion: "Well, Andy, do you reckon Ledley King's up for a custodial next time?" It'll make a change from trying to guess which football manager has had the least sleep in the past year. My money's on Harry Redknapp; he looks permanently on the point of collapse.

JuliaM said...

"...I'm sure those inventive statistics-obsessed folk at Sky Sports News could work up a league table with columns for Arrests, Convictions and Cum. Sentence, with conversion factors applied to the latter to normalize them to "incarceration-day equivalents" (IDEs). "

It'd make a great new game, too, wouldn't it? 'Fantasy Football' wouldn't be able to keep up...

:)