Rooney, Woods.. etc, etc...A Boycott of Cheaters

[LittleMissHissyFit]

I am sick and tired of seeing men betraying their families, trying to suppress the press and then putting out statements to request for privacy in this difficult time...

Erm, hello? it wouldn't be difficult if he'd kept it in his pants FGS!!!!

These 'celebs' influence our children. They are paid VAST amounts of money to represent the brands. The Brands hang on them for their fame, and after the dust has settled, it's business as usual.

When the Tiger Woods story came out, and Gillette stood by him, the most highly paid sportsman in history...

Gillette....The best a man can get.... Apparently! What about his WIFE?, their Children?? Was HE the best THEY could get?

Now it's Rooney.... and Nike... Just do it.

Yep, that's right, (Don't think) Just Do It...

So I decided that if a SLEB cheats and the Brand sticks with them, I will NOT be buying anything of that Brand.

I will use Wilkinson Sword, I will NOT be buying Gillette again. Nike? NO, I will buy any other brand, for me, for my son, for whoever, but I will not pay money to sponsor those that have no morals.

The only language these companies talk is Money, if we cut that off, then perhaps it'll make the sportsmen/women behave more like the Role Models they are purporting to be.

I completely agree with you - I was saddened when Kate Moss's earning went up after the coke scandal - don't these brands have any ethics at all or is it truly only about greed?

I know what you mean, I annoyed myself for buying Coke today.

Wonder how long it would take to make a difference?

I totally agree.

I have an 9 year old son. He LOVES football. Has been watching the news on Sky Sports and wants to know what is going on with Wayne Rooney and Coleen. I have had to try and explain. And his response to me saying that WR was with another woman while married is that "well he is a GREAT footballer so that's ok".

So yes. A dropping/boycotting would be good.

someone at a party said something about my ds wanting to be a footballer when he grows up.

I said i certainly hope not, as it's not like he'd be set any decent example.

Somehow i'd prefer him to be less well off, but principled, than raking it in and behaving like some of the clowns you see in the papers.

I also see that this acceptance of such awful treatment of women, treating them as disposable, and buying and selling them, as highly dangerous to women in general. It's objectifying us, if that's the right word, and actually eroding our hard fought equality.

It removes our right to respect, and worse still, these cheap wannabe WAGs are actually key in the role of destroying the position of respect women in general have.

If someone is being paid literally millions, they need to be worth it. We need to reject all those slebs who don't live up to anything like what we would want for our dc.

Apoarently now even car manufacturers are getting slebs to star in their car adverts...

This is celebrity making celebrities! It's mad! There's a whle industry dedicated to making these nobodies into somebodies.

Funniest thing I ever heard was at the hairdressers, the shampoo girl offered me something to read, while i was waiting for my hair to dry, She handed me a pile of Hello, OK etc and said, "Ah bless em, isn't it nice someone made a magazine for em all to be in? They'd have nothing to do otherwise...."

I think we should be very careful about glass houses and stone-throwing. A huge amount of people, male and female, are less than faithful to their partner (and there will be many people reading this to whom that applies, even if they don't know it yet) It doesn't hit the headlines when it's the average Joe, that's all. No-one has 'monogamous relationship' included in their job description because, rightly, it's a private matter. We might expect politicians, vicars and other moralisers to practice what they preach but everyone else is entitled to live to their own standards. The size of the number on the paycheck makes no difference.

Take a bung to bowl a few no-balls or throw a match.... now that is a very different matter.

But the fact that it goes on is one thing, it has always gone on and probably always will so.

These so called role models are being pedalled and forced on our DC, and then monogamy, honour, decency and morality will just fade to nothing.

We need to think back to how the stars of the past behaved, they took their responsibilities as role models to children seriously.

Apparently Max Clifford shrugs his shoulders and says of brand endorsements, What can we do, will it stop people buying Coca-Cola, No, or buying their kids Nike sports stuff? NO.

ER... actually Max, I think you will find you are WRONG.

Chil, if you have a relationship with someone and have not specifically stated and agreed that you intend to continue playing the field, then the other party could be forgiven for assuming that they are in an exclusive relationship. If the Public Person is to be held up as a representative of our country, our government, church or whatever else, they HAVE to be held to account.

If you are just a regular Mr/Mrs Smith/Jones or whatever, unless stated otherwise and expressly agreed, you have to honour the responsibility you have to your partner and if any DC, to them too.

I have nothing but contempt for anyone who, in a relationship with someone, goes on to involve themselves with someone outside of that commitment. At literally every step of the way to an affair there are a million opportunities for the person to check themselves and pull themselves up.

In short, however much the howling cheats protest, there are literally no excuses for infidelity.

I am sick of this sloping shoulder culture, this Teflon 'Twasn't me, honest' society.

Stars of the past.... oh yes. Who shall we pick? The famously upstanding George Best, perhaps? Loved by millions of young people despite his very public imperfections? Errol Flynn? Elizabeth Taylor? Henry VII

Regular Mr & Mrs Smiths etc. are no better at sticking to marriage vows than anyone else. It's sad when it happens but, outside of the immediate family, infidelity doesn't really affect anyone else. You can choose to mount some very high horse and denouce public figures for their failings if you like but, in my opinion, what Wayne Rooney et al do or don't do in their spare time, providing it is legal, is really none of anyone else's concern..

I was glad to see Cheryl Tweedy refusing to put up with any more nonsense from Ashley Cole. So glad they didn't have children together. Coleen's in a trickier position because she has a child with Wayne.

I just see these revelations as yet another thing that makes it harder to raise children to have high moral standards. I've found myself saying to my boys 'I know that the media makes it look like everyone's having sex with anyone they fancy whenever they feel like it, but it's much better to be in a loving relationship with someone'. They look at me politely but I know they think I'm living in la-la land.

As a minor protest towards Coke I decided to buy Elderflower fizz instead today.

I bet all the execs at Coke are quaking in their boots as they watch their profits nosedive.

And I need new trainers but for the first time in my life might miss Nike and check out some Asics instead.

I also see that this acceptance of such awful treatment of women, treating them as disposable, and buying and selling them, as highly dangerous to women in general. It's objectifying us, if that's the right word, and actually eroding our hard fought equality.

It removes our right to respect, and worse still, these cheap wannabe WAGs are actually key in the role of destroying the position of respect women in general have.

If someone is being paid literally millions, they need to be worth it. We need to reject all those slebs who don't live up to anything like what we would want for our dc.

Apoarently now even car manufacturers are getting slebs to star in their car adverts...

This is celebrity making celebrities! It's mad! There's a whle industry dedicated to making these nobodies into somebodies.

Funniest thing I ever heard was at the hairdressers, the shampoo girl offered me something to read, while i was waiting for my hair to dry, She handed me a pile of Hello, OK etc and said, "Ah bless em, isn't it nice someone made a magazine for em all to be in? They'd have nothing to do otherwise...."

I agree, but as a nation we are apathetic and have few morals. There will always be some clowns prepared to pay for these muppets - whether it's the club, the press or the general public.

LOL, speak for yourself!!

oldest profession in the world didn't get to be so any other way, tis true.

But we don't have to buy into all the consumerism around them. I don't want my DS growing up ignoring that WR is a serial user of prostitutes and that's OK because he's good at kicking a ball.

I don't want DS buying into all that branded lifestyle and forgiving whatever these idiots do, shove up their nose, or who they shaft in the process.

We as a society literally can't go on like this, it has to be reined in somehow. If we all say 'oh yeah, but watya gonna do.., then it'll only get worse. Small decisions can have large consequences in the end...

In our house, no-one is interested in football, we don't get crappy Sunday papers and the only reference we heard to Wayne Rooney was on the BBC Radio 4 news that there was some debate if he'd play in a match owing to 'newspaper allegations about his private life'. I still have no idea what he did or didn't do and have no interest in finding out.

Believe it or not, children are mostly influenced by their parents and close family. Not celebrities. Popular culture is all around us. Set your own family standards and then your children will be well-equipped to judge whether someone's behaviour is worth copying.

I also see that this acceptance of such awful treatment of women, treating them as disposable, and buying and selling them, as highly dangerous to women in general. It's objectifying us, if that's the right word, and actually eroding our hard fought equality.

It removes our right to respect, and worse still, these cheap wannabe WAGs are actually key in the role of destroying the position of respect women in general have.

If someone is being paid literally millions, they need to be worth it. We need to reject all those slebs who don't live up to anything like what we would want for our dc.

Apoarently now even car manufacturers are getting slebs to star in their car adverts...

This is celebrity making celebrities! It's mad! There's a whle industry dedicated to making these nobodies into somebodies.

Funniest thing I ever heard was at the hairdressers, the shampoo girl offered me something to read, while i was waiting for my hair to dry, She handed me a pile of Hello, OK etc and said, "Ah bless em, isn't it nice someone made a magazine for em all to be in? They'd have nothing to do otherwise...."

how did that happen? Phone!

i too don't do football, nobody in the house does. And i too chunter along all day to the sound of radio 4, so far so good!

However my son will doubtless be influenced somehow in time at school, regardless of what papers i read or what radio i listen to.

Therefore rather than actively avoid that kind of shenanigans going on, i'd rather something was actually done about it. Some sponsors growing some moral balls and dumping these poor excuses would be a start.

I used to work in brand creation and marketing, i know how insidious it all is.

Cheating on your partner, paying for sex etc just reflects what happens in society. Shoddy, yes, but it's all there.

"If someone is being paid literally millions, they need to be worth it."

And they are (well at least the two you mentioned woods/rooney)
They'll have made more for Nike and Man utd in Rooneys case than they have been paid by those respective brands, so they are worth it.

Of course what people do in their private lives is their own business, but it's a bit hard to swallow when Rooney etc sell their wedding and baby pics to the press for £££££s and go on about their true love etc, only to shag a prostitute or whatever.

If they want their private lives kept private, they are allowed to say no to the press. I can only really name a handful of premiership footballers - there must be loads of them who don't court the media and who don't try to milk their partners and kids for all the photo opportunities they can.

Rooney is hoist by his own petard I'm afraid.

"If they want their private lives kept private, they are allowed to say no to the press. I can only really name a handful of premiership footballers - there must be loads of them who don't court the media and who don't try to milk their partners and kids for all the photo opportunities they can."

Which is why I'd imagine their super-injunctions failed. because they'd made their private life of relevant public interest etc.
And I have no problem with that, if you make your private life a product and market it to the general public well then they do have an interest in knowing if you were lying.
Where as for someone like Scholes, if it came out he was shagging around then I'd agree with him having an injunction on it being reported because he doesn't court the press,doesn't sell his life stories and doesn't give interviews.
He is by all accounts a family man, but people only know this through others saying it, they don't know it because he has gone in hello/ok and broadcast it and invited people into his private life.