You Know What's Crazy Though...

Nwo got banned for an article like this OP. his was ill timed but just be careful as people on here that don't agree with your opinion will complain and cause a fuss!

Get well soon muamba!

Get well soon Muamba.

I truly believe nWo wasn't banned because of what he said but how he said it.

Denis Law, totally agree

Stig has said exactly the same thing but with tact and sensitivity. Hence the lack of any negative response

Yeah you know I think some people could get this twisted. We all rooting for Muamba and this thing is relevant to us because we football fans so it kinda hits home. It shocks us but a lot of other news has become so normal that people are desensitized.

The flipside is this Muamba situation is one that mad people are facing all over the world every second of every day of every year. Now if people all felt about these people the way they do about things such as this terrible Muamba situation or whatever sad news has been before or will come after then we'd feeling emotionally attached. Maybe then something can be done.

We have the resources, the technology and even in harder times we still got the money. What's missing is the emotional attachment to make this actually happen. I'm just sayin. Feel me? It's like seeing the way people come together to support one person makes you realise that the emotional attachment can exist. People do care.

Stig

I could actually see what NWO was trying to say but he went about it the wrong way and when challenged. Was agumentitive and hostile. Add into that the fact that he a balloon head at the best of times nd that's why he got banned!

Stigs article on the other hand is sensitive and compassionate, G's got class nah mean??

I didn't read NWO's article, but garnered what he had written from numerous other posts.

I can't say whether NWO put it as eloquently and non-confrontational as Stig has done here, but I do think that the underlying point, not so much here, but by all accounts to NWO's point misses the mark.

You are quite correct to point out that Muamba is receiving the best possible attention. You are also right to point out that many others will not be that fortunate (fortunate doesn't seem like the right word to use, but hopefully you know what I mean).

The sympathy and concern expressed towards Muamba by people is no different to the sympathy and concern that these people will express towards anyone else they know. It is also expressed towards "ordinary" people that we merely hear about various media channels. People we don't know - or have never heard of - we simply do not know their circumstance, but that doesn't mean that we wouldn't have any sympathy should they go through something as horrendous as being life-threatening, or worse, something that ended up resulting in their life being lost.

Someone somewhere, in the time it's taken for me to write this post, will have died. Numerous people in all probability. That in itself is a sobering thought, but that's all it ever can be. It may well even be someone young - a person who's future we will never know. They could have gone on to become just another average, normal person. They could have gone on to become a country's leader, a person who found the cure for disease, a very top sportsman, a visionary. They could have gone on to become a murderer, a rapist, a child molestor, or a tyrannical leader. No one knows. It's impossible therefore to think about such loss in such terms - the point being there are too many variables to consider.

And it's impossible to contemplate loss in the true sense of the word in regards to that which we have never been a part of, or are even aware of.

When a famous person suffers adversity, or at worst dies, it becomes a channel in which to express emotions that mean everything to us on a personal level. It is in a sense a projection, an extension, on what really matters to us all - upon those who are closest to us. In that sense, we can all relate. We express concerns, not only for ourselves and our own vested interests (losing a player who plays for our team, or plays a sport that we love to follow, losing a musician whose music we love), but through what it means to the people closest to them - the ones who it will hit harder than anyone else. That is us empathising with their circumstance. And we do so because it is something that the vast majority of us will experience on a personal level, thus know how horrendous it can be.

My thoughts are with Muamba, and those closest to him because of that very reason. There is also the thought, from a more selfish perspective, that the next time the team I support takes to the field, the same thing could happen. And that is a sobering thought.

If anything good can come out of such incidents, its that people do come together - seen in no small part on this forum since the incident yesterday. I take heart in that. That is a good thing. It's just a shame that it takes a bad thing in order for that to happen. We are all here because we share one thing in common at the very least - a love for the game of football. That should be embraced much more than it is. Rivalry will always be secondary to that in my opinion.

A slightly insensitive article. I'm sure you wouldn't be so philosophical if it had happened to a player from your club.

A slightly insensitive response. You don't know me bro. You don't know how I think.