Oh dear. Typically lazy generalisations about footballers and their salaries with zero insight; Sturridge was diagnosed with meningitis just over a month ago and by his own admission found it difficult to walk – sounds like he displayed a good degree of character to make the team in the first instance.

But that doesn’t fit the narrative, does it?

What rubbish journalism.

A pretty unfair analysis and I am being kind. Perhaps Cole was unwise to take to Twitter, but someone else has put round a rumour that is unfounded, that he is asking for 200k per annum, so he has every right to respond. In respect of Daniel Sturridge, it is absurd to criticise the guy for being upset that he had his penalty saved. If he had not been upset, someone would have criticised him for not caring. The poor guy cannot win. Lets not kid ourselves that competitors in the Olympics don’t also show their disdain if they fail. For all sportsmen, winning is the ultimate goal and none of them enjoy anything less. Footballers are no different.

I enjoyed reading this article as its always pleasant to try and comprehend the ramblings of an incoherent journalist.
 
The Olympics has shown a great deal of humility and humanity, from the range of ethical sponsors such as Dow Chemicals, to the equitable distribution channels deployed to dispense tickets. Indeed, Usain Bolt’s comments that he is almost a genius echo the sentiments of this article entirely.
 
Similarly, I think few people would begrudge Ashley Cole speaking out given the abuse he has endured over the years. Yes, a great deal if that abuse is due to his actions, but many comments made are far wide of “banter”.
 
As for Sturridge, his actions were one of a man who was geniunely upset and hurt that he had cost his team mates the chance of a unique medal. People will see the passion, disappointment and hurt unless they are misguided by pointed articles which try to highlight his response as an act of petulance.
 
And, by the way, I believe young Daniel has a Premiership medal, a couple of FA Cup medals and a Champions League medal. Not bad for a guy who has achieved little in his career.

Blatantly written by an Arsenal twit, completely biased opinion, your piss pot club wouldnt know a top player if Winger didnt see one, and wouldnt know how to keep one happy if he did. You might have the richest shareholders in the game (sacrificing success to make these imbiciles even richer) but year after year you win nothing. Ashley Cole is a legend of English football, and a CHAMPION, like it or lump it

Rubbish ,,if Rooney or Gerrard missed a spot kick it would be fine …such bias drivel .

you are everything wrong with british journalism

what a load of old sh*t… sturridge’s penalty was a good penalty, struck well and placed almost perfectly. it was just a good save. but yeah, i suppose you can’t make an article out of that. he ‘lacked confidence’ apparently. just shows what journo’s see through their tinted glasses. and why should we condemn ashley cole for responding to twitter trolls? it’s his life, he can do what he wants. to say it lacks class is total rubbish. i can honestly say this is the worst piece of journalism i have ever read.

the main thing that tarnishes football here in the uk is the shabby standard of sports journalism

to all proper journalists out there apologies for even using the same term 

You get paid for writing this tripe?Dear oh Dear.

Mike Calvin LMAO, dont think ive ever seen an article torn to shreds in 15 mins like this one, if there is any possibility of taking it down I strongly advise you do so before your journo cred goes through the floor. (Not that I imagine you have much judging by this example of your idiotic views),

Stop having a pop at journalist with these replies…..this idiot is not a journalist just a complete Arsenal baffoon : – )

junk journalism

the man is a clown

sturridge who scored some vital goals in this tourno and who insisted on taking part despite having just recovered from meningitis – gets stick because he was upset we lost?

shabby despicable tabloid garabage

dear oh dear.

I’ll be sure to avoid this website in future.

TOTAL RUBBISH! Sturridge provides Chelsea and England alike, an attacking flair which most players do not, he is exciting. Apart from the likes of Ashley Young, Sinclair and perhaps Walcott, most of the players seem to constantly pass back to the defence which they also practised heavily during the world cup. Look at teams like Spain, Brazil and even Korea for that matter, they keep the ball in the midfield and aren’t afraid to attack, whereas England are lazy and just constantly pass back to either the defence or goal keeper, even when they are in a good position, Sturridge doesn’t do that, he goes for goal when there’s an opportunity and people call him selfish. HONESTLY!

Agreed. Modern day footballers are prima donnas. They do what they want and get paid hundreds of thousands whilst our GB athletes put in 110% effort and live on a Lotto grant…

Ashley Cole is a big headed fool who needs to learn about real life. An embarrassment to football

Exactly!

I’m a journalist and I can’t believe how poor this article is.

Expert Opinion??  more like mindless drivel

Jessica Ennis lives on a lotto grant?

That new Aston Martin she drives round in tells us the grants are big then

Plus football dosnt receive a penny in aid 

I am in disbelief at how people like this Mike Ashley get paid for shoddy journalism like this while there is a recession in the midst and a lack of jobs for people who are able to produce a much better article than this shite.

You have no idea!!

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The whole affair had the dignity of a drunken scuffle in a pub car park. ” The affair? It’s a fucking tweet not an affair!

Apart from Terry he does have less class than any other human being in the prem at the moment. Doesn’t deserve the attacks he gets at all but to say its rubbish that he lacks class is total nonsense 

“He doesn’t need to care. He has achieved little in the game, yet earns around £4m a year, basic.”

Excuse me? His response was one of a player who does care, he cares very much. That wasn’t a response of a player saying “Didn’t fancy it anyway”, he’d just let his team down by missing a penalty which dumped Team GB out, better players have done that in bigger games like Roberto Baggio and they’ve been inconsolable too. What response were you looking for exactly? The lad was annoyed at himself.

Looking at Mike Calvin’s article list hardly surprises though, bemoaning Josh McEachran’s (A 19 year old boy) lack of opportunities at a top club as some kind of plight. Andres Iniesta lacked opportunities at Barcelona till he was 22/23, he didn’t highlight Spanish footballs big problem. Then he’s followed this up with the usual Beckham lovein from the media. Anyone who has watched David Beckham at all will see that his particular brand of wasted Hollywood balls has no place in the side. Giggs was a much more intelligent call from Pearce than i’d have ever given him credit for beforehand. Fact was we could call upon some fantastic central midfielders like Cleverley, Ramsey, Allen, Giggs and left out some very good ones who would get in the side over Beckham like McEachran and Lallana. Just reminds me of the Brazilian medias lovein with Ronaldinho forcing Mano Menezes to recall him… that worked a treat too.

Couldn’t be a worse time to question someone like Ashley Cole’s professionalism as he sits there with a Champions League winners medal round his neck and record breaking FA Cups… I don’t like the playing to the crowd some footballers do including Ashley Cole with his Twitter entrance (I hate Twitter full stop, it’ll be the death of football) but when you endure the kind of abuse he has you can’t begrudge him the odd retort. Since when did Jessica Ennis or Mo Farrah have that to deal with?

What a vile commentary. Indeed “you’re everything wrong with British journalism”.To  think you’re actually paid to attack people in this manner indicates the low standards ruling British tabloid journalism. Ironically reading this will arouse guffaws of self-satisfaction. That’s how sick attention- seeking British journalists have become!

You call this journalism – criticising our greatest ever left back for correcting untruths and responding to insults from rival fans???
As for your criticism of Sturridge – footballers are often accused of not caring and being arrogant, so Sturridge shows he cares and all you can do is criticise and make reference to his pay packet. Jealousy, lazy and simplistic journalism and it has no place in modern society!
Shame on you Calvin!

If cole is that good a man y his wife left him.he is a fucking scum and he is one sick selfish motherfucker.the way chelsea won everything everybody knows.its abramovich’s cash,drogba,caravalioh,and orher foriegn players briliance that they won few trophies.what history chelsea have oh yea there is one that ken bates bought chelsea for 1 pound.chelsea can never b a class team like arsenal man united or liverpool.look at last year how arsenal spanked them at their own backyard.

The byline photo alone indicates that this columnist should not be given this website as a platform for his drivel. The comments posted here clearly find him out of touch, bitter, and crudely using Team GB’s success to criticize Ashley and Daniel. It’s a cynical, lazy and irrelevant opinion piece which on any half-decent sports publication would be rejected before it reached the the editor’s desk. Maybe that’s exactly what’s been happening to Calvin’s copy in recent years. Maybe that’s why we are seeing it here.   

You are so stupid. It’s people like you that i hate, stupid, poor and completely uneducated.
PS Mike Calvin you are by far the worst journalist there is. You know so little about football i find it staggering. You are stupid.

Mike Calvin is a Dinosaur of the football world. Sturridge with so may medals    is an underachiever and Cole can’t stand up to the Arsenal ranters. i hate to see a journalist in his position writing about nonsense. i come here to read about genuine football news. what a let down

You know your article is bad when comments are almost unanimous. Sorry Mr. Calvin but your hatred for Chelsea just showed through there.