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    Default Is it right for Footballer's private lives to become a media spectacle? ENDS 3/10/10

    Is it right for Footballer's private lives to become a media spectacle? - ENDS 3/10/10

    We are often bombarded with stories about Footballers risking all and undertaking in sordid affairs and one-night stands. The media often focuses on the wives/girlfriends who have been wronged, as well as the occasional attempt at a 15 minutes of fame for the women that the footballers have cheated with. Is this necessary? An affair or cheating may well destroy a relationship and so a certain level of sympathy is bound to be felt towards the victims. However, is the media right to cover it in such detail?

    Should coverage of footballers strictly be kept to what happens on the pitch?
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    No it's not right. But when you become a high-paid, famous sportsperson, you should know what you're diving into. If they want to go into that business, you have to be prepared to have your private eye inspected and broadcasted around the world.

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    It's a tricky one. I think it is right that they're ridiculed publicly for it however it now seems to have become a new accessory like everyone needed a WAG, you've now got to of had some kind of sordid affair. I think that's right because they're serious role models for thousands and thousands of young boys and men across the country and they shouldn't be able to get away with it. However all of the press coverage they get is making it seem as though it is right and that it is something glamorous for boys to go out and do that when it isn't. Just like Lindsey Lohan who gets sent to prison for X Y and Z she is then on the front cover of one of the most famous magazines in the world, which again is glorifying something which should be shamed in the press.

    So I think that it is right that there is so much press attention surrounding footballers when this happens, just no the right kind of press for the 'fans'.


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    Many boys want to be footballers when they grow up. But they are in the media for almost anthing a pay rise , getting married and having affairs. Then again they are payed so much that they are a big topic of conversation. We like to know what our idols are like but sometimes I don't think the media shows what they have done right and just wrong . So I disagree with that they are always being slated. But the media survives because they spread news that interests us which I guess that does
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    half of the time it's them wanting the attention and making sure they get in the 'media spotlight' but for the other half who don't want it of course it's not right

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    Footballers don't go into the world uneducated in how to handle media, yes many can't add up 5 + 5 however they're taught how to handle the media by the club they're with the moment they hit sixteen. They know the spotlight will be on them, they realise the moment they step out of line they'll be scalped by the red tops in order to sell papers. Some know how to play the media, with the help of a good agent they can manipulate the public image of themselves. Some decide to build up this family man image such as Terry and Rooney, others decide to build up a bad boy image such as Diouf. If they get bored they go out in the open and do something what appears to be stupid however it's actually clever. If they pay a prostitute they're no longer a family man. Endorsements are dropped but at the same time public pressure disperses. Nobody wants to be seen with Diouf because he's got a bad reputation.

    Barton is an example of changing his image. A few years ago he was seen as scum, stubbing a youth player in the eye with a cigar, punching a team mate, assaulting a man, the list goes on. Now he's building up his reputation to be a good boy, working for charities, going to hospitals.

    The players know at a young age the media will be there throughout the playing years. They use it, don't think they're naive.

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    yes. they get all the bonuses from being rich, famous & in the media spotlight, i mean they're role models to a lot of kids growing up. just because they've done something wrong they shouldn't be excluded from this.

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    if you want to stay out of the limelight for the wrong reasons then it's easily done. all those that have done wrong can only blame themselves.
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    It's not right but they are preforming infront of a audience they can expect much different its been the same for many years and won't ever change i imagine

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    The media literally surround footballers and other celebs. I think its totally wrong, you can never basically do what you would want to do because you know that most of the time, there are news reporters out there, trying to catch you out at something and turn you into a villan or a hero, depending on what they do. So basically, footballers lives are not their lives, their life is controlled by their managers and the media.

    I think its everyones right, to have their private lives, kept private.

    I dont know if you have watched footballers wives, the tv drama? But that is basically, all about footballers lives and wives, it shows everything how it is!


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