To think there's no need for the drunk vicar to be plastered over the front age of the Sun.

[BridgetBidet]

My husband gets the Sun because he likes the football reporting.

Today the front page is plastered with a big picture of a vicar who was apparently too drunk to conduct a wedding and had to be escorted out to the vestry whilst a replacement conducted it.

He arrived drunk and bleeding. He has been described as a 'good man but with problems' and has been given leave to deal with personal issues.

The article goes on to poke fun a him with jokes about 'Beerly Beloved' and 'Imbibe with me' and 'Amazing Grouse'.

I read this and I was horrified, it sounds like this is somebody quite vulnerable who may well have issues with alcohol and he's been splashed across the front page of the Sun for people to take the piss out of. Is it just me or is this not the kind of thing that could lead to suicides? It's just fucking horrible and unnecessary.

the sun always has jokey headlines , and your dh only gets the paper for the football :)

This is classic British Journalism. The fall from grace is normal tabloid fodder.

The vicar who married us was in a pretty delicate state tbh. Having previous had a drink problem, we don't really know if he was drunk that day or suffering from withdrawal and cognitive decline as a result. He had retired by then but we asked him to do the wedding because we'd known him all my life and when he was in form he was wonderful.
He wasn't in form that day I have a picture of him with his surplice on wonky, he then got my name wrong repeatedly and differently whilst getting dh's name right everytime He christened me btw! He announced we would be going down the aisle when we still had a hymn to sing and I had to intervene and say 'no, there's one more' and most seriously tbh he told me to sign the certificate in my married name and didn't get me to sign the register at all! We had to do it the following day when the with it vicar checked the register and had kittens. So it was very 4 weddings ish BUT did that matter? No, not at all and had anybody 'poked fun' at him a la Amber I would have poked them straight back. With something sharp and pointy.

"My husband gets the Sun because he likes the football reporting."

... And then I read the rest of it in detail.

Wouldn't expect anything better from The Sun, tbh.

My dad was a vicar and a alcoholic, a vast majority are! Many have those issues, my dad was done for drink driving twice...finally got defrocked a few years back after his umpteenth affair.

Philandering prick.

However, mocking this chap is uncalled for. It's not 'big' news anyway, a fair few religious sorts are a bit damaged!

It's the Scum. What do you expect? Better football reporting elsewhere.

This is why I don't buy The Sun. Even if the football pages are good.

I don't read The Sun, but I disagree with most posters. This guy was incompetent in his job at a public occasion. This forum would be quick enough to condemn incompetent investment bankers, or cruel care home assistants, or medical staff who were not up to the job. There are enough posts having a go at useless shop assistants or call centre workers. This was the most important day of their lives.

I occasionally appear in public at trade exhibitions as part of my job. If I turned up drunk and my boss sent me home from a public event I would be mortified, but if there was any publicity I would take it on the chin.

If there was a headline about an investment banker being sent home for being too sozzled to do any trading, I doubt anybody on MN would have any sympathy. Mind you, nor would I