Deadline day

[John Hunt]

Being an addict, (of.any kind, and I'm.not saying Pritch was/is by the way), is an illness and not something to be looked down upon by the likes of you or anyone else.

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Well said.

[Jimbokav1971]

Gambling addict with a attitude problem - I am glad my premiership team never touched him with a bargepole

Apologies. "the likes of you" is rude and that wasn't my intention.

[Norfolkbee]

Gambling addict with a attitude problem - I am glad my premiership team never touched him with a bargepole

I don't know enough to disagree that he is an addict, but the gambling that goes on now is nothing to what went on in previous generations. Think of the stars you grew up watching. Now think of them playing cards for money. It's still gambling. It wasn't against the rules back then, but then again nobody had invented the Internet and mobile phones where you could place a bet on a game while sitting on a coach/train/plane travelling to a game.

We have just lost Pritch, (who fell foul of the gambling rules), and I'd have him back in a second if he said he was fit and able. Being an addict, (of.any kind, and I'm.not saying Pritch was/is by the way), is an illness and not something to be looked down upon by the likes of you or anyone else.

You can say he's rubbish and you can even claim he's got a bad attitude, (but perhaps you could specify what that attitude problem is specifically.

You're spot on about the amount of gambling that went on among players of previous generations. My mum grew up in a street opposite the Spurs ground. He nextdoor neighbour was a notorious bookie's runner. Mum reckoned that, before and after WW11, she would see "half the Spurs first team" poking envelopes through nextdoor's letterbox.
My first Spurs hero back in the 1960s - I won't name him, but probably know the name - had his career effectively ended by his gambling. He was so desperate for money, he resorted to stealing from the handbags of other players' wives at a presentation night. All very sad.