Matt Partridage v Lee Hughes
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 10:03 am
Are you happy to ignore this question?
Lee Hughes - a man who did something very wrong with tragic results. No-one can excuse what he did, and no-one can fail to be appalled by his apparent lack of remorse. But however stupid and wrong his actions, he has never appeared to me to have shown any leanings towards violence. Indeed he put up with some very unpleasant abuse (probably justified, although I always found the abuse distasteful as it seemed to be using tragic deaths to try and knock a player) and actually reacted to the abuse in as reasonable way as he could.
I know it is nonPC to say it, but Hughes could quite easily have gone out having drunk so much every night for a year and not had an accident - it was just that tragic night that things went so horribly wrong, and nothing can ever put right what he did. He was, however, punished ..... whether that punishment was sufficient can be argued - I wouldn't want to say what a correct prison sentence is, but I felt it inappropriate that he didn't get a life ban from driving. Surely he has forfeited his right ever to drive again.
Matt Partridge - I am sure most fans have read of his misdemeanours. I was sickened reading it. Now if he went out and did that every night for a year he would undoubtedly seriously injure someone on every night, and almost certainly kill many people. The fact that he committed a similar violent attack some nine months previously shows this not to be a one-off. The judge gave him a suspended sentence and said "don't think you have got away with this" .... well why shouldn't he think that, it is what every decent person thinks? Surely he has proved himself to be a violent thug who has no qualms about inflicting serious injury on people for trivial, probably non-existant, reasons. Can anyone really argue that such a man should have received a lesser sentence than Hughes - it was just fate that meant that Hughes killed someone and Partridge didn't. I would also suggest that, like Hughes, Partridge has forfeited his right to drive ever again.
Apart from the moral question, do the club really want such a loose cannon in the dressing room ...... what if a training session gets a bit tetchy and Partridge goes "off on one" again ...... the pictures he likes to post of himself show him as a man of no class or morals.
I have read on this forum people say that everyone should be given a second chance e.g. Abu Ogogo ...... do you think the Ogogo victim would agree with you, or the Partridge victim? Indeed just how would you feel if you were victim of an un-provoked serious violent assault and you saw the person who could have killed you just walk away, so that he can concentrate on building a career as a footballer?
I am most certainly not playing down the seriousness of what Hughes did. But to those of you who constantly booed him everytime he played here I would ask "are you happy to have Partridge at this club, and will you be cheering him on?
Partridge, Labadie, Scott, Baddoo, and I am sure there are others - not very impressive, is it? I am not happy .... are you?
Lee Hughes - a man who did something very wrong with tragic results. No-one can excuse what he did, and no-one can fail to be appalled by his apparent lack of remorse. But however stupid and wrong his actions, he has never appeared to me to have shown any leanings towards violence. Indeed he put up with some very unpleasant abuse (probably justified, although I always found the abuse distasteful as it seemed to be using tragic deaths to try and knock a player) and actually reacted to the abuse in as reasonable way as he could.
I know it is nonPC to say it, but Hughes could quite easily have gone out having drunk so much every night for a year and not had an accident - it was just that tragic night that things went so horribly wrong, and nothing can ever put right what he did. He was, however, punished ..... whether that punishment was sufficient can be argued - I wouldn't want to say what a correct prison sentence is, but I felt it inappropriate that he didn't get a life ban from driving. Surely he has forfeited his right ever to drive again.
Matt Partridge - I am sure most fans have read of his misdemeanours. I was sickened reading it. Now if he went out and did that every night for a year he would undoubtedly seriously injure someone on every night, and almost certainly kill many people. The fact that he committed a similar violent attack some nine months previously shows this not to be a one-off. The judge gave him a suspended sentence and said "don't think you have got away with this" .... well why shouldn't he think that, it is what every decent person thinks? Surely he has proved himself to be a violent thug who has no qualms about inflicting serious injury on people for trivial, probably non-existant, reasons. Can anyone really argue that such a man should have received a lesser sentence than Hughes - it was just fate that meant that Hughes killed someone and Partridge didn't. I would also suggest that, like Hughes, Partridge has forfeited his right to drive ever again.
Apart from the moral question, do the club really want such a loose cannon in the dressing room ...... what if a training session gets a bit tetchy and Partridge goes "off on one" again ...... the pictures he likes to post of himself show him as a man of no class or morals.
I have read on this forum people say that everyone should be given a second chance e.g. Abu Ogogo ...... do you think the Ogogo victim would agree with you, or the Partridge victim? Indeed just how would you feel if you were victim of an un-provoked serious violent assault and you saw the person who could have killed you just walk away, so that he can concentrate on building a career as a footballer?
I am most certainly not playing down the seriousness of what Hughes did. But to those of you who constantly booed him everytime he played here I would ask "are you happy to have Partridge at this club, and will you be cheering him on?
Partridge, Labadie, Scott, Baddoo, and I am sure there are others - not very impressive, is it? I am not happy .... are you?