Sean davis

Oh come on LH you know what I mean. The guys life has been one long grind to try and get himself fit, suffering set back after set back.

All any professional footballer wants to do is play football in a packed stadium week in week out. None of them wants the constant grind of trying to get back from injury. I can't imagine what its been like for the guy being out for as long as he has. Every time he's got close to a come back he's ended up having a set back and being back to square one again, that has to be demoralising and take it out of you mentally.

What gets me most about the situation with Davis is that fans moan about how much we've paid him for so little return and yet it is no different to whats been happening with Gardner for the last 3-4 years and yet that gets conveniently skimmed over or ignored.

I don't think you can blame a player who suffers a career threatening injury for taking a wage.

It would be like coming back in 3 years time and blaming him for having a heart attack because we have to pay hjm until August 2014.

him = Muamba

i have sympathy for davies picking up his injury but giving him a 3 yr contract on those terms was crazy.we must be saving fortunes releasing/offering reduced terms to the likes of robinson,knight,steinsson etc. yes sam did sign a few 30 somethings a few years ago but the likes of okocha,hierro,campo,speed,djorkaeff etc were actually worth the wages they were being paid and none were on long term contracts.

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I don't blame Davis, but I don't have an ounce of sympathy for him either. Poor Davis, getting injured at 29 and not being able to play football for three years, all the while being paid £5.4M.

What about the long term unemployed in this country, who can't find work? Many of whom are penniless and depressed because they can't find work and pay the bills or feed their families?

Anyone who feels sorry for Sean Davis really needs to just get a grip on the real world outside that of vastly overpaid footballers - none of whom give a toss about you.

largehat.

I agree with you, obviously, that Sean has had a better life than the vast majority of people, but from a footballing perspective the guy must be gutted that he can't play football, in the same way that Holden is.

Tevez and the like would be more than happy being injured and rolling in the money, but most people have a soul, unlike mr Devildog.

I am reminded of Burt Reynolds talking about the ups and downs in his life, how he suffered broken relationships before and after he was successful:

"I've been rich and unhappy, I've been poor and unhappy. Rich was better".

Let's not pretend life is a grind when you're getting paid £35,000 per week.

I think if we learnt anything last year, it's that money doesn't matter when it comes to a persons personal happiness. Money can't buy happiness. And I bet Davis would swap all his money to have been playing the last 3 years.

Considering one of our own, a man with respect from every fan, a man with fantastic achievements as a player, fantastic record as a young manager, a man who despite endless wealth and respect, felt taking his life was the only option for him last year, the correlation between wealth and happiness doesn't seem to have been removed by some.

RIP Speedo

Now of course Davis earning that much whilst being injured is ridiculous. No doubting that.

But just because someone has money, doesn't stop them from being unhappy or even depressed. After all Depression can come from just an imbalance of electrocity in your brain.