Sadfish wrote:
Anyone on my facebook knows my distain for the gutter press and this is typical how the papers have been getting away with this for far too long. hopefully there will be more paper get whacked sooner than later.
Either way, mental health issues, clearly anyone who says "he was ok yesterday on TV" doesn't understand depression, it's quite easy for a person to cover up this for years even amongst people close to them, even maybe they don't know they have it.
Maybe if the soccer community had a stateofmind like RL does he could have sought help, but alas with the way the papers are into everything unchecked and unpoliced I fear he felt cornered. (if the news story report is true).
A lot I agree with in this – although I would point out that the "state of mind" of the RL community didn't prevent Terry Newton taking his own life, so I don't think it's necessarily that simple.
lefty goldblatt wrote:
If this is true, then this is another example of our press' "gobshitedness", and being obsessed with other people's lives.
IF (and it's a big if) Speed has commited an 'indiscression' , then, it has nothing to do with us. It's totally a family thing, and for them to deal with, not for some @@@@@@@ in an office to play judge and jury with somebody's life.
Again, if the press thing is true, OUR PRESS ARE TOTAL @@@@ers
It might be a news story if it was something criminal – before anyone comments, I'm not remotely suggesting he had done anything criminal, simply that that might provide a justification.
Now to emphasise – we don't know, as yet, why this happened, so this is largely speculation.
I would add, though, that not all the press behave so badly. It is largely a tabloid obsession. Not entirely, but largely.
