Footballer kicking cat

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

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.

I’m still waiting to hear from Karen Brady

Her silence is deafening.

I wondered when racism would be brought into it tickingbird.

Cruelty is cruelty whatever your race, age, sex, or gender. We are not racist to accuse a cruel person of being cruel. And to play the racist card to get off only adds to the magnitude of the crime.

I see he’s ‘available’ to play this weekend. I hope more sponsors withdraw, there’s a great deal of booing and that he, his brother and Moyes are all sacked.

A gross miss use of racism which is an insult to anyone who has been subjected too it.

Germanshepherdsmum

I see he’s ‘available’ to play this weekend. I hope more sponsors withdraw, there’s a great deal of booing and that he, his brother and Moyes are all sacked.

Hear hear!

Karren - where are you?

In fairness I don’t know if Zouma himself has cried racism but for anyone to even bring it into the conversation is a nonsense and insulting to victims of racism.

As for his wages they’re ridiculous but my son tells me over £200,000 PER WEEK is paid to some. It’s madness and no wonder young men not brought up accustomed to such wealth go off the rails. Plus surrounded by sycophants and hangers on that convince them they’re untouchable.

And finally we hear from Karen Brady ???

Karen Brady - another like Moyes with no moral compass or ethics. Follow the money

Very disappointed in her.

How disappointing. And what a load of bullocks. Just because he's their best and mot expensive player. How dare she expect people to forgive this idiot. Redemption? It wasn't an error. No accident. No mistake. Just plain old animal abuse. So no, no forgiveness from me.

The woman who punched and kicked her horse just before Christmas was sacked from her teaching job. Maybe West Ham should think about dropping Zouma. I know he's lost his contract with Adidas, but it looks like he's going to keep his job.

Iam64

Karen Brady - another like Moyes with no moral compass or ethics. Follow the money

She obviously knows the words "You're fired" as she hears them often enough in one of her jobs where she facilitates the firing of candidates on The Apprentice.

What a mealy-mouthed excuse, Karren.
It's all about money.

Karren Brady is driven by money and nothing else. I heard a chilling interview with her a few years ago on R4 when she was talking about going back to work when her child was weeks old, and she expected every other working mother to do the same. Based on that, I don't expect her to think it appropriate to sack a footballer for kicking a cat. Driven only by money

Will this cause youngsters to think it’s fun to kick animals

Only the ones whose parents don’t teach them otherwise Anniebach. Most children love animals.

Anniebach, it certainly doesn’t help teach children it’s wrong to hurt and terrify a harmless pet does it. I haven’t watched the video, only seen the stills and read reports. It’s said he slapped the cat out of his child’s arms. Then kicked it the length of the room- filmed by his brother, laughter heard in the background. I grew up with cats, dogs, rabbits in cages in the garden. My dad wasn’t an animal addict but we were and mum indulged us. As adults, we always shared our lives with pets.
Imagine, seeing your father behave like that. I’d have been terrified. I’m certain my mother would have intervened and I know I would. Out the door you brute. If you can do this to a cat- we aren’t safe eithrt

Karren Brady is as hard as nails. As others have said it’s all about money.

Yes his cruelty to a cat was truly sickening. I have not been able to look at the (redacted) video clips or newspaper pictures, but there is a niggling thought at the back of my mind too.
Where is the ongoing outrage at “golden boy” Harry Maguire, who was found guilty of assaulting a police officer, swearing, resisting arrest and attempted bribery on the Greek island of Mykonos in 2020? No question of him not playing for Manchester United.
More recently – more repugnantly – Raith Rovers signed a known rapist to the squad. A civil case ruled in 2017 that David Goodwillie and one of his former Dundee United team-mates raped a woman after a drunken night out in 2011. Yet outrageously, the Scottish Championship side gave Goodwillie a contract. It took fury, resignations, dropped sponsorship and mutiny from fans before the club performed a reluctant U-turn.
Hmm. Double standards?
For me the bottom line is that it seems footballers are such a valuable “commodity” that they are perceived to be above the law.
Now who else has that appeared to apply to recently………..?

Same for me Iam and my daughters and grandchildren, this
has brought back the memory of my darling daughter age 7,
she saw a man kicking his cat in his garden, she went in the garden and stole the cat, we took it to a cat rescue refuge ,said it
was a stray and they re homed it. No, I didn’t tell her she was wrong to steal that cat from it’s owner .

That was very good and brave of her Annie.

Germanshepherdsmum

That was very good and brave of her Annie.

What a wonderful little girl ????????