25yr old professional footballer arrested

Nalz

...at a crash, fatal accident on M6 in England. Breaking news on Sky

Mushy

Just heard this myself. Speculation will be flying around nw I'm sure. Wonder if its any top flight footballer?

mike65

black Range Rover

http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5iJm6jCUAgCyMSXslbAK_6Ts_WoFA

Must be top-flight!

Mike.

Mushy

8 & 10 year old kids...Jesus!

RIP

Sherifu

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1318371,00.html

Footballer Held After Kids Die In Crash
Updated:13:37, Saturday June 07, 2008

A 25-year-old professional footballer has been arrested after a crash on the M6 in which two children died this morning, Sky News sources say.
The children, aged eight and 10, were killed after the smash shortly before 5.45am.
The man arrested was driving a Range Rover and was not hurt in the crash.

He is being held on suspicious of causing death by dangerous driving.

More follows

8 & 10, damn

Tusky

So sad...Imagine losing two people from your family in one go ? Heart goes out to them.

Sqaull20

Respect for there familly and the two little kids,I dont think this is the place to speculate, but I would still like to know


list all 25 year old footballers not in euro 2008 so we can narrow down the list?

shane86

tbh its more Sky News "watch us for the next few hours and find out" fare. Professional footballer could mean a guy who earns £25,000 a year playing in a League 3 team.

Death or Glory

Which part of England is the M6 near?

SantryRed

Death or Glory wrote: »

Which part of England is the M6 near?

Linking road from London to Birmingham I think?

Death or Glory

Bad buzz whatever the circumstances, especially with the fatalities being kids anorl

kensutz

Death or Glory wrote: »

Which part of England is the M6 near?

Staffordshire which is close to Stoke.

MementoMori

Near Crewe.

On the BBC Website they also showed Liverpool on the map - don't know if that's significant. No scale though.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/staffordshire/7441622.stm

Denis Irwin

Death or Glory wrote: »

Which part of England is the M6 near?

It's near enough to Manchester and Liverpool. Which means there's a chance the player in question could be from one of the 4 big teams in the area United,City,Liverpool and Everton.

$lattman

Hmm, a certain 25 year-old Liverpool and ex-Birmingham player with a bad driving history springs to mind...however, the fact that they say "professional" and not "Premiership" footballer probably means it's some randomer.

Unearthly

$lattman wrote: »

however, the fact that they say "professional" and not "Premiership" footballer probably means it's some randomer.

Yeah was thinking the same thing myself

MementoMori

Good detective work $lattman.

Surely it couldnt be him again.

I'd imagine he'd be looking at serious jail time if it was him - prob a number of years if convicted.

True about the professional vs Premiership though.

Anyone know any 25 year old Crewe Alexandria players with a range rover?

Denis Irwin

$lattman wrote: »

Hmm, a certain 25 year-old Liverpool and ex-Birmingham player with a bad driving history springs to mind....

That particular footballer's name has come up a couple of times already on a few fourms but it's probably not him because as you rightly pointed out they would have said Premiership footballer if it was.

$lattman

Yeah and I'm fairly sure he's banned from driving for a few years anyway.

Mushy

The accident only happened near Crewe...could have been going from/to anywhere really, doesnt necessarily mean he's from the club nearest the accident.

yabadabado

its a footballer from plymouth argyle

justfortherecor

From the BBC News website:

"The arrested man, who was heading from Manchester to Silverstone, was not hurt, police said."

yabadabado

here's the link

http://www.pafc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10364~1324971,00.html

Denis Irwin

The player in question Plays for Plymouth Argyle just been announced on Sky News.

SantryRed

Just had a look around on the site looking at the players ages, from what I see, it seems to be one of the two strikers that start for them.

Guy:Incognito

SantryRed wrote: »

Just had a look around on the site looking at the players ages, from what I see, it seems to be one of the two strikers that start for them.

It's the goalkeeper, Luke McCormack.

Death or Glory

Poor B*stard.

Hopefully it will have simply been a tragic accident.

Thoughts are with the childrens family

mikemac

Up on wikipaedia already, that didn't take long
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke_McCormick

Shows that he is 24 though??

homah_7ft

micmclo wrote: »

Up on wikipaedia already, that didn't take long
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke_McCormick

Shows that he is 24 though??

Yeah born 1983 in August so 24 alright.

Mushy

Jesus, look how quickly his life is gonna change!

PCros

Yep it was Like McCormick alright....

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1318371,00.html

justfortherecor

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/staffordshire/7442783.stm

McCormick has been charged with causing the deaths of the two children. My Sympathy for him evaporated when I read the following however:

"Mr McCormick has been charged with two counts of causing death by dangerous driving, driving with excess alcohol and driving without insurance. "

mike65

Its gets worse - he recently did a safety promo for the local plod (driving while using a phone being the theme).

Mike.

~Rebel~

with that info after coming to light, he deserves whatever he gets and more. asshole.

Sherifu

mike65 wrote: »

Its gets worse - he recently did a safety promo for the local plod (driving while using a phone being the theme).

Mike.

Life has a cruel sense of irony.

Really stupid on his part.

A Dub in Glasgo

Why is it that other people come off worse when you have arseholes like this ******* idiot driving??

Scumbag

Pepe LeFrits

Feckin eejit.

ferdi

driving with excess alcohol and no insurance.

rednik

He will be goalkeeping for the prison team for a long time and deservedly so the silly man.

Soby

A Dub in Glasgo wrote: »

Why is it that other people come off worse when you have arseholes like this ******* idiot driving??

Scumbag

Cause of the size of the monster he was driving the p*ick..a people carrier didnt stand a chance

Gelio

He has to live with killing to kids


he deserves the guilt



my heart goes out to the familys

estebancambias

Does nobody feel sorry for him?

Its not like he is evil. Seriously the guilt, and being told you can never drive again should be enough...its not like he is a menace to society.

kensutz

Are you for real? First of all he drives while over the legal limit, then he ends up killing 2 kids and injuring the father. Why should we have any sympathy for him?

Y2J_MUFC

estebancambias wrote: »

Does nobody feel sorry for him?

No!!!

Anyone can have an accident, fair enough, sh!t happens....but, if alcohol was involved and thats the reason for the crash, and killed two innocent people, throw the book at him. That could have been you, it could have been me....why feel sorry for him?

If no drink was involved, and he wasn't driving aggressively (which we don't know whether he was or not), then I'd feel sorry for him. Anyone can have an accident.

~Rebel~

estebancambias wrote: »

Does nobody feel sorry for him?

Its not like he is evil. Seriously the guilt, and being told you can never drive again should be enough...its not like he is a menace to society.

if it was just a road accident then yeah, but drove drunk AND without a license! Absolutely no pity for him. not a menace to society? i dunno, someone who breaks the law is one thing, but doing something this reckless which endangers Other peoples lives like this is just abhorrent imo. Pure selfish stupid behavior and he deserves more punishment then he'll probably get.

Y2J_MUFC

BTW, what the hell is a professional footballer doing without insurance? Sure, he might not be on Premiership wages, but he'd still earn considerably more in a month than your average person, what with his Range Rover and all.

aidan24326

The fact he was returning from a wedding at 5:45 am means he was probably well over the limit. What the fcuk would you be doing driving home from a wedding at that hour anyway? Take a room for the night.

He will almost certainly get jailtime but unfortunately that's no use to the family who've lost 2 young kids. Sounds like the dad is pretty badly injured too. Fractures to the neck and spine, could be bad.

And I'd agree with Y2J MUFC that it makes no sense for someone like him to be driving with no insurance either, no excuse at all for a guy who as a Plymouth first-teamer would be earning something in the region of 400K per year I'd expect.

A Dub in Glasgo

Sympathy for this gob****e? - no way!

The fact that the had no insurance goes some way to show that he had absolutely no respect for the law. 2 children are dead and a man is critically injured because of the actions of one selfish arsehole. He should be treated like any other in the circumstances, with contempt and jailed.

MagicMarker

estebancambias wrote: »

Does nobody feel sorry for him?

Its not like he is evil. Seriously the guilt, and being told you can never drive again should be enough...its not like he is a menace to society.

are you taking the piss?

You think a driving ban is punishment enough for killing two small children after getting pissed at a wedding and above all else having no insurance to top it off?

I would feel sorry for anyone this happens to, if they weren't driving carelesly and it was just a freak accident, it could happen to any one of us. But this wasn't the case.

Aquos76

Just an update on this. Its really sad

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1030134/Football-mad-brothers-buried-double-Manchester-United-coffin.html

SantryRed

Awww god, that second picture really makes you feel sorry:(

What a f**king muppet. Ruined his life and the life of four others.