12-05-2018, 00:41
(12-05-2018, 00:04)BaggieSteve Wrote: I suspect few will share my view but I don't have the same level of loathing to Odemwingie and Berahino that others may. Like nearly every one on here, i regard their behaviour as poor and incredibly stupid but I also believe that people make crap decisions for what they believe to be the right reasons and then have to live with their cock ups afterwards.
Odemwingie I've thawed out towards, not least because of his gesture last month of voluntarily flying in from Indonesia to play the charity game at Halesowen. My cousin was there and got chatting to him after the match, and suffice it to say that he is a top bloke in person. I suspect he still bears grudges against some individuals at Albion, and he's said some saft things on Twitter (a crime shared by some hundreds of millions of people, not least the leader of the free world), but as a man I think he's probably sound.
But Berahino... I really, really struggle to see him ever doing anything like Odemwingie did last month. Everything he's ever said or done points to him being an obnoxious waste of space with an ego he couldn't control, and probably never will.
People do, of course, make crap decisions for what they believe to be the right reasons, but if their idea of the right reason is "because the entire universe revolves around me and the sun shines out of my nitrous-oxide-emitting arsehole", then I reserve the right to judge them very, very harshly.
"I would rather spend a holiday in Tuscany than in the Black Country, but if I were compelled to choose between living in West Bromwich or Florence, I should make straight for West Bromwich." - J.B. Priestley