Footballer kicking cat

I’m still waiting to hear from Karen Brady

That comment was made by Michail Antonio. He would be best to keep his opinions to himself . Kurt Zouma was fined 2 weeks wages, the maximum the club was allowed to impose. For those of you who don't follow football you may want to sit down to read the next bit. Zouma earns £125,000 a WEEK so a quarter of a million will go to animal charities. That has now caused a mutiny amongst the West Ham players as none of them earn as much as he does. Wage demands are flying into the Board Room and this at a time when 2 of their club sponsors have pulled the plug.

Yes I saw that, trying to say that racism was worse than animal cruelty.

One player I saw being interviewed was trying to turn it into a race issue ie the outrage is more to do with him being black than his cruelty to the cat. Hmm……the teacher that kicked the horse lost her job and had to go into hiding after receiving death threats. She’s white.

So his fellow players are "outraged" because he is being paid more than them - not that he kicked and abused an animal!

Excellent!

I've been reading that some of the other westham players are outraged to realise that pillock-features has been earning more than them and are now asking for a pay rise.
All we can hope is that all this makes him very uncomfortable and unsettled.

I agree Oldwoman. Imprisonment is very unlikely and even the maximum fine will be meaningless to him. It’s possible that the cats could be confiscated and he could be banned from keeping animals for a set period. I would like to see some more sponsors walk away from him and his brother and from their clubs. That would drastically reduce their value as footballers and they and Moyes might then be sacked.

Oldwoman70

A despicable coward but does anyone actually believe either of them will go to prison? The maximum punishment in UK and France is imprisonment but how often does that happen? IF he is prosecuted he will receive a fine, which will have no affect on his finances, his club may sideline him for a few weeks but then he will be back playing. I also fear the cats will be returned to him - and he will ensure any future abuse is not filmed

It looks as though public outcry is waning a bit but I do hope that he does get a prison sentence.Brigitte Bardot is a very ardent animal rights woman..

I think you're right on all counts.

A despicable coward but does anyone actually believe either of them will go to prison? The maximum punishment in UK and France is imprisonment but how often does that happen? IF he is prosecuted he will receive a fine, which will have no affect on his finances, his club may sideline him for a few weeks but then he will be back playing. I also fear the cats will be returned to him - and he will ensure any future abuse is not filmed

Well if Miss Bardot gets her way….

Excellent news re that imbecile.
Now the other one needs to go back to France to face the music there. But of course we have Moyes in charge (he needs to be out of the door too)
France take a very dim view of animal cruelty.

His brother has been suspended by dagenham for his part in the abuse.

This….

Auntieflo

We were appalled at the footballer, and his brother's behaviour.
What I don't understand is the TV channels, showing the video repeatedly.

Yes, it's very poor. The BBC at least refused to show it and said so.

We were appalled at the footballer, and his brother's behaviour.
What I don't understand is the TV channels, showing the video repeatedly.

Doodledog

Here's a happier cat/football story. I can't find the video now, but the player waved at the cat as it was taken off to the vet .

Yes absolutely the other side of the coin

Iam64

I may be wrong but I read the animal awareness course was alongside him being fined two weeks wages, so something the club came up with.
If the vet exam finds old injuries I can’t see the cats being returned. People abuse animals (and children) with the focus all too often on rehab v punishment.
And - I’m in the pro alternatives to custody gang

I’m afraid I find it totally ludicrous that someone has to go on a course to learn how to not abuse animals..

I feel sorry for the children in the family. They have witnessed their father & uncle being cruel to their pet cats at least this once, filming it and laughing at it. They are probably either traumatise or desensitised, either way they’ll be affected by this. They may well face a backlash from other children at school, etc., and to top it all they have now lost their pet cats.

I won’t watch the video, but perhaps the child holding the cat when it was slapped was trying to comfort or protect it - I don’t know, but what a lesson about human nature!

Very very sad.

Here's a happier cat/football story. I can't find the video now, but the player waved at the cat as it was taken off to the vet .

I may be wrong but I read the animal awareness course was alongside him being fined two weeks wages, so something the club came up with.
If the vet exam finds old injuries I can’t see the cats being returned. People abuse animals (and children) with the focus all too often on rehab v punishment.
And - I’m in the pro alternatives to custody gang

On Jeremy Vine just now it said that the French animal protection are calling for him to be sent back to France to be prosecuted. Well done the French!!

I don't think he will be unemployable as a footballer. Maybe at the moment but not in the long term.
My husband is very into football and he said re the footballer accused of assaulting his girlfriend 'He's young, he's a brilliant footballer. If convicted, he'll be back at some point. It's all about the money'. I fear he may be right.

He should be "encouraged" to take up the cage fighters offer.