Try hard, Jamie O’Hara, playing to the Talksport listener base and his clearly biased roots, again.
“Very few people get the opportunity to represent their country. For Ben White to turn that down because he doesn’t want to sit on the bench or because he doesn’t like watching football? I’m sorry, but I think you’re a disgrace. Representing your country is the biggest honour a footballer can have, and if it isn’t, then you’ve got a problem.”
As Ben White has said many times, (and I’m paraphrasing here) football is not his life, football is his job.
Now I know, like me, football is our passion, but it’s not all people are like that.
Benny Blanco happens to be bloody good at football, but to him it’s just a job. He doesn’t live and breathe the game. When his job is finished, he wants to go home, end of.
Arsenal employ him, he does what he is contracted to do and doesn’t want the ‘OPTIONAL UNPAID OVERTIME’ of playing (sitting on the bench) for England.
Fair enough, his choice.
Totally hypothetically scenario for you Jamie’s (because this isn’t going to happen)
You’ve finished your weeks ‘work’ with Talksport and the Beeb or Sky Sports call, asking you to, for free, to spend 2 weeks, maybe, commentating for them, dependent on whether they can get Wrighty or Shearer to do it.
Working for the Beeb / Sky Sports is the pinnacle, but you don’t have to do it, if you don’t want to, do you? You might want to just go home to your wife/kids/cats?
Leave the guy alone, it’s his choice and maybe it’s better for his mental health that he doesn’t muck around with England and people who don’t care/understand.
But I’m guessing, you don’t give a toss about that, because it doesn’t work with your preordained, alpha male, Talksport agenda.
It’s about what Ben White wants/needs and not you, who was surprisingly never asked to play for England!
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It’s about what Ben White wants/needs and not you, who was surprisingly never asked to play for England!
Did you not mean “who was NOT surprisingly never asked to play for England” At least I was not surprised he was not asked.
“Representing your country is the biggest honour a footballer can have, and if it isn’t, then you’ve got a problem.” Wrong. Winning major trophies is the biggest honour available to a footballer. Not that No-mark O’Clickbait would know what that feels like.
O ‘ Hara is a complete Dick head.Just jumping on the let’s kick Arsenal band wagon hoping it makes him look a Super Spud’.What a twat.
I doubt very much that Ben White actually even knows who Jamie O’Hara is or that he was a fairly below average footballer for Tottenham. I also doubt that Ben would even care if he did know. Ben will do exactly what suits him and focus on Arsenal and for that I am happy.
Jamie O’Hara got the gig on TalkSport because he has the ability to talk endlessly and mindlessly without hesitation about most things sports related. Jason Cundy also fits into that category as do most of the presenters on that low grade radio station.
Eventually Southgate will leave the FA and a new coach will replace him and I’d hedge a bet that Ben White will be in his first squad – and will play.
I find it hard to talk about BW without expletives, but I’ll give it a go. He’s a disgrace. Not long ago he was at Leeds, and it was a case of Ben WHO? Now he’s Mr Tantastic and he looks like a clown. Given his humble roots, it’s not taken him long to get superstaritis. If you get the call to play for your country, it’s an honour and it should be a privilege. If you refuse, that should be the end of your England career. I can only imagine that it’s not hot enough in Germany for him and he might be afraid of becoming a little paler. From the over coiffured beard to the embarrassment of him diving on the floor after he was caught by a fingernail against Brighton, he is obviously an obnoxious, self-entitled, self indulgent poor excuse for a footballer and as a man. Maybe he should have got a job in a factory, so that he could now know how lucky he is to be in such a privileged position. If I was Southgate he wouldn’t play for me again. I hope he gets a really serious injury so he can spend time reflecting on his ars*holery.
Wow, you really need to chill out
I find it hard to talk about BW without expletives, but I’ll give it a go. He’s a disgrace. Not long ago he was at Leeds, and it was a case of Ben WHO? Now he’s Mr Tantastic and he looks like a clown. Given his humble roots, it’s not taken him long to get superstaritis. If you get the call to play for your country, it’s an honour and it should be a privilege. If you refuse, that should be the end of your England career. I can only imagine that it’s not hot enough in Germany for him and he might be afraid of becoming a little paler. From the over coiffured beard to the embarrassment of him diving on the floor after he was caught by a fingernail against Brighton, he is obviously an obnoxious, self-entitled, self indulgent poor excuse for a footballer and as a man. Maybe he should have got a job in a factory, so that he could now know how lucky he is to be in such a privileged position. If I was Southgate he wouldn’t play for me again. I hope he gets a really serious injury so he can spend time reflecting on his behaviour.