Lee Hughes - would you want him in your team?

[severnside gull]

I have no problem with Hughes returning to his career as a professional footballer.
He has served his time and his earning capacity/level he plays at is much lower than it would have been.

However if he determines to return to a career in the public eye he must expect a degree of vitriol/abuse. His actions were after all unacceptable to society in a way that many crimes are not.

If the anger he attracts is something he finds he cannot deal with then he might choose to work in a less public arena. However he has chosen the most public of arenas because it is where he can achieve the most for himself and his family and I suspect (having seen him around the clubs and pubs of Birmingham) that what others think is of almost complete indifference to him.

 

[dwayne]

Interesting one, as I know one of Lee Hughes best mates is an albion player (I won't say which one) but I met both of them (and lewes goalie?) out at a club in the west end. Hughes, strangely, came across as a really nice bloke and even bought me a drink. He's one of those whose reputation puts him in bad stead with people and he doesn't do himself any favours with his wind up tactics on the pitch.

 

[Smythe]

Id have the Yorkshire ripper and Myra Hindley up front for us if they could get 50 goals between them and take us up!!!!!

 

[severnside gull]

Id have the Yorkshire ripper and Myra Hindley up front for us if they could get 50 goals between them and take us up!!!!!

 

[strings]

Interesting one, as I know one of Lee Hughes best mates is an albion player (I won't say which one) but I met both of them (and lewes goalie?) out at a club in the west end. Hughes, strangely, came across as a really nice bloke and even bought me a drink. He's one of those whose reputation puts him in bad stead with people and he doesn't do himself any favours with his wind up tactics on the pitch.

Does Dwayne know everybody on this planet...? He always seems to be clubbing it up with footballers etc.

 

[Napper]

I would love it if we signed Hughes, hated players that play for your team are the best

 

[drew]

My problem with Lee Hughes is that he never has, as far as I am aware, seemed to show genuine remorse for what he did coupled with the fact that he even ran away from the scene.

Lee McCormack is in the same boat but he does seem genuinely remorseful for what happend from footage that I've seen.

Just my opinion mind.

 

[throbinson]

He Knows where the net is, still would'nt want him in an albion shirt

 

[getreal1]

I could not stand Robert Codner either but if he can do a job ..... to be controversial I never much cared for Steve Foster the man, but of course he was loyal and committed for the club so you get on with it.

 

[mcshane in the 79th]

I would not want him at Brighton no.

I understand that he has served his time etc. But the fact it was a hit and run crime prevents me from having any sympathy or goodwill towards him. I could not watch someone like that and want him to do well. If he stopped at the accident and as someone above mentioned, showed some sort of remorse then maybe. But as he did a runner, I despise the man.

 

[Gritt23]

I wouldn't want to see him in a Brighton shirt.

I accept teh arguments of him "serving his time" but what he did was a disgrace and makes him someone I couldn't cheer, and I don't want players who I won't cheer.

 

[dale jasper football guru]

Why not?

Because he's got ginger hair.....why else !

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Interesting one, as I know one of Lee Hughes best mates is an albion player (I won't say which one) but I met both of them (and lewes goalie?) out at a club in the west end.QUOTE]

You, Lee Hughes, and Andy Whing all out clubbing together.

I bet the girls were just queuing up

 

[HseagullsH]

I don't know that much about the incident that happened but I would be fine with him playing for us. If however he had killed intentially in a violent attack, then no I wouldn't want him anywhere near our team.

I know for example the Luke McCormack incident is terrible but at the same time Fabian Delph was caught drink driving and just because he got lucky and didn't crash and kill someone due to it, no-one thinks of him badly.


In my view, Delph is as bad as McCormack and Hughes he just happened to get lucky and should be punished in the same way. Just my opinion

 

[Lady Whistledown]

I know for example the Luke McCormack incident is terrible but at the same time Fabian Delph was caught drink driving and just because he got lucky and didn't crash and kill someone due to it, no-one thinks of him badly.


In my view, Delph is as bad as McCormack and Hughes he just happened to get lucky and should be punished in the same way. Just my opinion

Hughes is more of an arse in most people's books because he ran away from the scene.

Plenty of footballers have been caught drink driving, but have been fortunate enough to get busted before they've actually killed someone. Try these for starters...

-Jermaine Pennant
-Jon Obi Mikel (due in court next month)
-Rio Ferdinand
-Jody Morris
-Nobby Solano
-James Beattie
-Seth Johnson
-Adam Proudlock
-El Hadji Diouf
-Didi Hamann (also left the scene)
-Michael Essien
-Matthew Etherington

Are they any less culpable than say Luke McCormick or are they just lucky? Surely if you make the decision to get behind the wheel after drinking, that itself defines your character rather than what fate deems the consequences to be.

 

[coventrygull]

My problem with Lee Hughes is that he never has, as far as I am aware, seemed to show genuine remorse for what he did coupled with the fact that he even ran away from the scene.

Lee McCormack is in the same boat but he does seem genuinely remorseful for what happend from footage that I've seen.

Just my opinion mind.

I think he has shown remorse. I am not sure but I think he met a relative of the victim.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

I think he has shown remorse. I am not sure but I think he met a relative of the victim.

I would imagine that is the case: I doubt many of us could end up in his position without wanting to express some kind of apology/regret to the family.

I would also imagine that would be done on the quiet, as to turn the moment into a press event would be undignified, unnecessary and distressing to the victim's relatives.

Because it hasn't been written up in the Daily Mail doesn't mean Hughes has never said sorry. Whether the family will ever be able to forgive him is another matter, but that's entirely their prerogative, not ours as football fans.

 

[mcshane in the 79th]

Fair enough if he stayed at the scene, got arrested, served his time and wanted to carry on. But I just can't show any respect for some that fled the scene of an incident like that and didn't report themselves for over 24 hours. To have him playing for Brighton and scoring goals would just feel very very wrong. That may make me a horrible person but I just can't muster any sort of support for him.

 

[tim warneford]

Lee Hughes has served his time and as such should be allowed to continue in his job like the majority of other people do when they come out of prison. It just happens that he is a professional footballer and therefore in the public spotlight. Why should he be denied the chance to earn a living, having served the sentence that he was handed down?

He does himself no favours, he hit the ground so many times within the first ten minutes when we played them that one could only deduce that he had the wrong studs in. He is an odious piece of shit who should have served far longer for the taking of a life. i bet you would be far harsher in your liberal assessment had you known or been related to the victim.

 

[Horney]

Hughes was a folk hero at West Brom...I know a few Baggies fans and to a man none of them would have him anywhere near the club.