Why it DOES matter

More stories in the papers, headline news on East Midlands Today and even a story on BBC 5 Live.

Yes, Ladies & Gentlemen, Forest players have been out on the piss again.

Let's face facts here, this is a group of physically fit young men, rich beyond their dreams and in a job a certain type of female find attractive. They never signed up to be role models so why should they act better than any other group of lads ? Who else in the world doesn't like a drink at Christmas ? Office parties all over the country are littered with stories of normally well-behaved people just over-stepping the mark at yuletide. Do they get in the Evening Post ? Does Janice from Accounts have a grainy CCTV image of her photocopying her backside shown on East Midlands today ? When the company we work for has a dip in profits or your department gets a bad internal review, does is stop you from going to the pub in the evening ?

No. So what is all the fuss about ?

Unfortunately for the vast majority of footballers, their wealth is far beyond the capacity of their feeble intellect, they are certainly less physically attractive than they themselves believe and their fitness is directly effected by the extra-curricula life-style they lead.

Stories abound that these incidents aren't unique, rumours of drinking 'til 4am on the morning of the 5:0 loss to promotion rivals Oldham, further rumours of early morning drinking before away games on the South Coast before Christmas, both games ending in poor results and worse, rumours of players caught on Police held CCTV snorting sherbet dib-dabs.

Anyone else who let partying & drug abuse impact on their work would expect their employers to be knocking on their doors pretty sharpish, P45's in hand.

These morons aren't role-models for my kids, I have nothing in common with them so ignore them in town and am not interested in the autograph / photograph / adoration culture surrounding them. Yet for plenty of people, these players are a class above, heroes, gods even. So for a certain group of fans up and down the country, it does matter and it matters a lot.

It matters when your heroes abuse local people.

It matters when performances suffer through this type of bad behaviour.

It matters that hard-working people pay over the odds to supplement these idiots who seemingly don't appreciate how lucky they are.

You'd think that with their wealth, fitness and contacts, they'd be clever enough to decide for themselves or at least get told, not to shit on their own doorsteps.

Again.

You would think that, wouldn't you ?