Sadly true. Best comeback on a soccer newsgroup.

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There's a message board on the net where anyone who wants to talk about soccer can connect with people in their own state. Well, over the weekend, someone posted to the message board, revealing information that someone from a major soccer club had just received his fourth DUI. There have been, easily, a half dozen threads and hundreds of posts on the subject. I almost feel sorry for the guy, because emotions are strong going both ways.

You have the parents who have benefited from the guy's good works in soccer defending him to the hilt, claiming that his private life is none of anybody's business; and then you have everybody else literally eviscerating the man. And then, here comes the best comeback of all just with minor editing added:

"If you people put as much effort into selecting a President as you do in getting rid of a coach at a soccer club that you don't even belong to, this country wouldn't have the clown in the white house that we have."

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. so, what ever happened to the coach?

did he have a good plan on dealing with the midfield? Did he pick his goal keepers for size or speed?

Did er ah never mind.

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2. I get the impression he was more than a coach.

Possibly involved with training all the teams in the club? May have even put in a good word for kids to get into college. No doubt that to some people, he was a mentor.

I just was taken back by the humanity of it all, because in all the people that defended him, you can begin to see the hidden bonds that usually give good ole boy networks their resilience during times when they should be knocked down a peg for the bad things they do.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. my 'phews were lucky to run into a guy like that.

fair, a great teacher, caring, and (surprise!) a muslim foreigner. Considering that they live in the reddest part of the state, (folks cut their hair short to get that extra stripe of red on their necks) the idea of allowing the kids play for a "Muslim" was amazing. There were a few church goers who complained and took their kids out of the program. But, if a parent spent 10 minutes watching, and 5 minutes talking (or listening) they came away convinced that this coach was the cat's meow of trainers and educators. Along the lines of who you described.

The locals also did a study of grades and sports. Kids who played for this guy had a half a grade higher GPA than those who didn't. Statistically, that is huge.

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4. Well, it's not a crime to be a muslim, so obviously, the problem is with

the parents and their prejudices. But a four time DUIer is going to get it on both ends. First, the guy is obviously sick and needs help; and Second, he obviously isn't in the right place to get that support now that the parents know about him. Many want him out and are questioning why they hired him with 3 DUIs to begin with.