Boro fan arrested for leaving 11yo son in hotel to go drinking after fa cup win

Pentasa said:
wee poof has probably phoned his Mum and grassed up his Dad, I think the Dad being lifted is the least of his worries, he's going to be in the Dog house for a while

It was the done thing when I was youth if you were on Holiday you'd get put to bed and your parents would go out for the night

I'd imagine whats happened is the Mum has phoned to see how things were and the wee laddie has dropped his old boy in it by saying he's away out on the lash
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Good afternoon Gerry McCann, good to know you’ve moved on.

Think you might be on the wrong supporter forum though.
 
TerrySilverLoyal said:
So was I.

But leaving child in a hotel room a place you have no control over the safety or well-being to go bevvying is different.

Prioritising getting smashed over your kid
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You not think it would be normal when you were 11 ?, when I was that age or younger , I stayed in tenements and me and my mate used to camp round the backs or down the field , 0 control for safety there but completely normal all the other kids were doing it
 
Impossible to defend that. One thing giving the child responsibilities to suit a work routine or whatever but not ditching him in a hotel to go out!
 
Thewandofpedro said:
Not really funny though isn’t. Guys an absolute clown who should get the book thrown at him
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Back in the 50's and 60's parents at the holiday camps such as Butlin's and Pontin's would go out to evening shows and bars in the camp and the camp had chalet maids doing rounds of the chalets to check on the kids left in their beds but it was only maybe once or twice in the evening, kids who could be much younger than 11. I was left in the chalet at 9 with my wee sister who was 4. It was just normal and one of the attractions for families to go on holiday to the camps. It was no big deal.

W.A.T.P.
 
Pentasa said:
wee poof has probably phoned his Mum and grassed up his Dad, I think the Dad being lifted is the least of his worries, he's going to be in the Dog house for a while

It was the done thing when I was youth if you were on Holiday you'd get put to bed and your parents would go out for the night

I'd imagine whats happened is the Mum has phoned to see how things were and the wee laddie has dropped his old boy in it by saying he's away out on the lash
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Was the lad supposed create a filter of his dad's face & pretend to be him on Facetime?
 
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KirkieRanger said:
Back in the 50's and 60's parents at the holiday camps such as Butlin's and Pontin's would go out to evening shows and bars in the camp and the camp had chalet maids doing rounds of the chalets to check on the kids left in their beds but it was only maybe once or twice in the evening, kids who could be much younger than 11. I was left in the chalet at 9 with my wee sister who was 4. It was just normal and one of the attractions for families to go on holiday to the camps. It was no big deal.

W.A.T.P.
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Kate & Gerry McCann announce new Holiday Park venture..
 
Aragorn said:
I once worked with a woman whos husband, a carpenter, was an uber fanatical Sunderland fan...She said the last straw was when he cancelled a dinner she had arranged because of a big job he was involved in...Later that evening she happened to be watching MOTD showing Sunderland highlights and noticed a familiar face jumping around after they scored.

They divorced, she ended up marrying a doctor and is very happy, Sunderland still languish in Division One. B-D
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Bet the doctors not hapoy
 
My grandson is 11 and lives in Edinburgh. I was taking him to the Bond movie in Glasgow and asked my daughter if he could get the train through and I’d meet him at Queen St. From her reaction you’d have thought I’d spat in her cornflakes. As someone above said, changed times. I was going to away games with my pals at 11. :D
 
At 7 I was walking alongside a burn then climbing over a coal bing from Bonkle near Newmains to Morningside primary in all weathers just to save the Tuppenny bus fare which was spent on sweets.
 
Pre-match, my dad and my uncle used to go into Burns Bar at Bridgeton Cross for a couple of pints and leave my cousin and I in the Morris Minor with a bottle of coke and a bag of Golden Wonder each. Couldn't have been any older then 9 or 10. We just got on with it, singing Rangers songs until they came back.
 
Not the brightest thing to do these days however I was getting sent to school with the back door key on a bit of string round my neck tucked into my vest when I was 6. Would go home and be in the house for an hour or so until my wee Maw got in and then my faither an hour later. Neighbour’s would keep an eye out and nobody thought it odd or bad parenting.
We’re talking about the 70’s here and would walk the mile or so to school everyday.
Changed days indeed.
 
RickDagless said:
Good afternoon Gerry McCann, good to know you’ve moved on.

Think you might be on the wrong supporter forum though.
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For a fan of the show Darkplace you don't really seemed to have grasped the concept of sarcasm very well, even when I said it was posted tongue in cheek
 
Kid is a shitebag. Nothing wrong with sitting in the room watching telly while the old man goes for a pint. I was left in hotel rooms many times for a few hours.
 
Seems we've a lot of posters still stuck in the 60s.

I grew up in that era as well but, back in the day when I took my lad to the football, I was grown up enough to know that I could still go to the game, have a laugh with mates and not need to go and get bladdered as part of the day out FFS.

You just know if this was some wee schemie burd leaving her kid to go down the nightclub/to see her drug dealer the response would be noticeably different.
 
Fuxake, I started secondary school at 11, travelled to Ibrox with me wee brother for games at that age, cycled to the Clyde tunnel from Castlemilk.

A few fucking hours in a hotel room on my Todd would have been a piece of piss.

Unless the lad has special needs or something it’s hardly the crime of the century.

I was wanking at eleven. An empty hotel room would be bliss.
 
Kevin McAllister stayed in the plaza and ran about new york himself all those years ago....and the parents never got done! Infact they got a hotel room full of presents......life can be shit at times!
 
Bluebeard said:
As was I however there weren’t the same amount of sickos and peodophiles etc lurking around as there are these days. I wouldn’t let my kids do it now until they are at least 15. Different times.
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There absolutely were. It was just that your parents told you to stay away from them. Nobody really got charged for it in those days, though I believe they may have received some proper justice rather than people going to the police.
 
I can remember as a wean being 'ootside the pub' from the mid to late 60s and in my Uncle Jim's van into the early 70s.

They're getting mollycoddled these days.

I can only assume paw didn't get porn on the TV for the wee lamb.
 
QueensferryCR3Bear said:
At age 11 I had my own keys, walked myself home from school, got home made myself tea and a sandwich and watched telly til Mum or Dad got in from work. No one died and I wasnt scarred for life etc.

In a hotel in a different city, to go on the piss, hmm not the best is it...
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This is pretty much what I did.

my oldest is 12 and we will leave her in the house for maybe an hour max to walk the dog or pick up our other kid from primary school.

I’m all for giving as much autonomy as possible but my wife is still a bit paranoid.
 
For all we know it was a paedophile operating in the hotel, possibly disguised as a Corby Trouser Press, who got wind of the kid staying alone and went in to the room only to discover it looked like this:

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The nonce then raised the alarm.
 
RedWhiteBlue said:
Never understood people like this, and I know a few.

How poor must your relationship with your partner be when you have this hobby or interest you are fanatical about but they aren't able to accommodate that? Imagine it's so bad that you have to lie to them just to go and watch a football game.

My wife isn't that bothered about football but she at least knows when upcoming matches are being played and we tend to schedule around that.

Can't imagine how bad things would have to be before I'm pretending I have to work just so I can go to the match.
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Yeah it sounds like she'd made him scared/unable to say "I can't do that night, cos there's a game on" for fear of consequences etc.

Not a good sign of a healthy relationship, if he can't tell the truth to her. He needs to grow a set as well.
 
Doing a 'Mulgrew' is wrong. NSPCC states children under 12 should not be left alone and children.under 16 should not be left alone overnight. Could he not have bought or phoned in a carry out of drink and had a few in his hotel room?
 
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Sounds like a prick, and one that was missing a good trick. When I was wee and would travel up to the occasional game with my dad and the rest of the lads on the supporters bus, he would always take me into pubs with him while he got steaming and I almost always came out with pockets full of change to spend at the game because other drunk fans thought me standing on tables while singing the sash and other classics was worth chucking some shrapnel at on their way back from the bar
 
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