Prem League player paying protection money to ex childhood friends

mike65 · 17-04-2010 9:04am #1

A story carried on the BBC World Service overnight about a South London born prem player who is paying about 80,000 a year to a criminal gang that includes fellas he used to know as a teenager.

No doubt some detail will come to light in the next day or two. No doubt this sort of thing goes on quite a bit.

Peyton Manning · 17-04-2010 9:11am

John Terry.

Despite the fact he was born in East London, it's always John Terry.

Brazilian footballer murders prostitute? That'd be John Terry. African striker arrested for child trafficking? That's a John Terry. Colombian drug baron who has absolutely nothing to do with football gunned down by SWAT team during tactical raid gone wrong in eastern Bogota? That's also John Terry.

This is how tabloids work.

mike65 · 17-04-2010 9:41am

BBC World Service is not a tabloid. They do their research.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/p00730lh

The whole programme is about the mob/crim aspect of football.