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Am I insensitive in thinking it's ridiculous that Hoilett wasn't available on Saturday after his wife had dropped a kid out a day before? This seems to have become a given in football when I'm sure it wasn't in the recent past.
The bloke is presumably trying to win a new contract. Maybe I'm just old fashioned about this but if the kid was born that day or due at any moment I could understand it.
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Players not playing after their missus has had a kid on 11:37 - Mar 7 with 2831 views
Players not playing after their missus has had a kid on 06:35 - Mar 7 by 18StoneOfHoop
Have we come a long long way baby in 27 years?
Are most of us progressive or reactionary?
When Trev said no to Mad Dog (courtesy of QPR Report 2009)
BLAST FROM THE PAST - MARTIN ALLEN
The most talked about episode from Martin Allen's career at Queens Park Rangers was not a match he played in … but one that he missed! It was 20 years ago this month - on March 11th 1989. Rangers travelled north for a First Division fixture at Newcastle United and our squad stayed in a hotel overnight before the game. Allen said: "I was sharing a room with our goalkeeper David Seaman. At two o'clock in the morning, David took a phone call from my dad saying that my wife Gabriella was about to give birth.
"I found out there was a flight back to London at 7.30am and I told our Assistant Manager Peter Shreeves. He said 'Before you leave, check that she's still in labour. And if you are going to go, then get on the plane and good luck. But check first.' "I rang from the hotel at 6.00am and Gabriella was settling in at the Royal Berks Hospital. So I got the plane from Newcastle Airport and arrived at Heathrow about 8.30am. From there, I was in the hospital at 9.30am and our baby George was born at 12.15pm.
"I'll never forget the following Monday. I was just leaving for home after training when QPR Manager Trevor Francis handed me an envelope while I was getting in my car. I thought it was going to be a note of congratulations for having the baby. But it was a two week wages fine! "It was quite shocking and disappointing. After that, my working relationship with Trevor broke down. I was eventually sold to West Ham a few months later. "But I have no regrets about what happened. It was only human that I wanted to see the birth of my first child. Everyone has the right if they wish to do that - whether you are a footballer or whether you are a banker or a politician. It doesn't matter what you work as. You have that right.
"I still get phone calls from newspapers about the incident - even now. My name always crops up when any top sportsman chooses to attend the birth of a child. Or even when they opt to stay and perform in their chosen sport when the wife is in labour. "My famous - or infamous - son George is now 20 years-old. As I am talking to you on the phone for this interview, I am just driving him down to Bristol University where he is studying Maths & Philosophy. George is doing very well and enjoying his own life now."
Players not playing after their missus has had a kid on 08:48 - Mar 7 by Bluce_Ree
To any fan whining about Hoilett missing the game.
Would you go to work the day after your wife dropped a kid?
If no, then it is fair enough that Hoilett didn't. What's the consequence of it? He missed a football match.
On a list of shit that matters, football is right down the bottom. And on the list of football shit that matters, a midtable QPR shitfest matters even less.
And that's coming from someone who thinks babies are marginally less important than, say, The Oscars or the output of the band 'Toploader'.
We complain that footballers are ever more detached from the reality of fans' lives, but then demand they act like automatons with no human emotion.
If I ever have a kid, I am taking every second of that two week paternity leave I can get me hands on
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Players not playing after their missus has had a kid on 13:32 - Mar 7 with 2678 views
Players not playing after their missus has had a kid on 13:19 - Mar 7 by robith
We complain that footballers are ever more detached from the reality of fans' lives, but then demand they act like automatons with no human emotion.
If I ever have a kid, I am taking every second of that two week paternity leave I can get me hands on
I'm not asking him to have no emotion. I just would have thought in his situation he'd have wanted to play. As this thread suggests, my view is a minority one but I don't see his as a normal profession and not just because of the money (though I'm sure he still picked up his £50k for his week's endeavours). You ought to do things as a footballer that we mortals don't and, for me, this is one.
id do overtime to get away from a new born, I honestly cant stand babies all they do is cry and poo I wont go near one and everyone knows not to try and hand me one I had to hold my niece one god id rather hold a puppy and I hate dogs,I only like kids once they can start to talk. then they can become magical full of innocence and learning
maybe if I were married and had my OWN for keeps things might be different but I doubt it so its best I don't , I don't even have any feelings for the others apart from wishing them well
Players not playing after their missus has had a kid on 19:40 - Mar 7 by HollowayRanger
id do overtime to get away from a new born, I honestly cant stand babies all they do is cry and poo I wont go near one and everyone knows not to try and hand me one I had to hold my niece one god id rather hold a puppy and I hate dogs,I only like kids once they can start to talk. then they can become magical full of innocence and learning
maybe if I were married and had my OWN for keeps things might be different but I doubt it so its best I don't , I don't even have any feelings for the others apart from wishing them well
Agreed. Babies are very poor conversationalists.
Air hostess clique
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Players not playing after their missus has had a kid on 19:52 - Mar 7 with 2534 views
Players not playing after their missus has had a kid on 06:35 - Mar 7 by 18StoneOfHoop
Have we come a long long way baby in 27 years?
Are most of us progressive or reactionary?
When Trev said no to Mad Dog (courtesy of QPR Report 2009)
BLAST FROM THE PAST - MARTIN ALLEN
The most talked about episode from Martin Allen's career at Queens Park Rangers was not a match he played in … but one that he missed! It was 20 years ago this month - on March 11th 1989. Rangers travelled north for a First Division fixture at Newcastle United and our squad stayed in a hotel overnight before the game. Allen said: "I was sharing a room with our goalkeeper David Seaman. At two o'clock in the morning, David took a phone call from my dad saying that my wife Gabriella was about to give birth.
"I found out there was a flight back to London at 7.30am and I told our Assistant Manager Peter Shreeves. He said 'Before you leave, check that she's still in labour. And if you are going to go, then get on the plane and good luck. But check first.' "I rang from the hotel at 6.00am and Gabriella was settling in at the Royal Berks Hospital. So I got the plane from Newcastle Airport and arrived at Heathrow about 8.30am. From there, I was in the hospital at 9.30am and our baby George was born at 12.15pm.
"I'll never forget the following Monday. I was just leaving for home after training when QPR Manager Trevor Francis handed me an envelope while I was getting in my car. I thought it was going to be a note of congratulations for having the baby. But it was a two week wages fine! "It was quite shocking and disappointing. After that, my working relationship with Trevor broke down. I was eventually sold to West Ham a few months later. "But I have no regrets about what happened. It was only human that I wanted to see the birth of my first child. Everyone has the right if they wish to do that - whether you are a footballer or whether you are a banker or a politician. It doesn't matter what you work as. You have that right.
"I still get phone calls from newspapers about the incident - even now. My name always crops up when any top sportsman chooses to attend the birth of a child. Or even when they opt to stay and perform in their chosen sport when the wife is in labour. "My famous - or infamous - son George is now 20 years-old. As I am talking to you on the phone for this interview, I am just driving him down to Bristol University where he is studying Maths & Philosophy. George is doing very well and enjoying his own life now."
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