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Also why are so many people criticising when they have gone out of their way to watch the video? When I read what it contained I did not want to watch it. Nowt so strange as people
I was simply explaining why I think sponsors have taken the action they have. The club can't be held responsible for Zouma kicking the cat, but can be held responsible for the decision to play him the day after the video was released, which some sponsors seems to have taken as either condoning or downplaying the act.
West Ham had every right to play Zouma. There was no legal reason not to. Their choice.
Sponsors have every right to not agree with him playing and disassociate with the club. Their choice.
No-one's right or wrong here (other than Zouma, obvs). The club made a decision to play him; some sponsors have decided they don't think that was the right thing to do. Both perfectly entitled to their respective opinions and actions.
Personally I think there's a great deal of hypocrisy across the board with the reaction to what Zouma did, and for a company that promotes Seaworld to preach about animal cruelty is pretty rich, IMO.
There will always be animal abuse as there will always be abuse against each other, there are also much worse examples of it than what Zouma has done, but when there is an outcry it does send the message that many people care and will raise a voice for the animal that can't.
You'd suspect it might be trickier with Zouma, though I guess he has admitted it so maybe that changes the situation as well.
I guess what I'm saying is that if I was filmed beating my dogs, and my employer sacked me, and my friends didn't want to associate with me, I think that's sort of ok. Same as if I knew someone who was overtly racist or homophobic or sexist, I would be happy to cut them out of my life. There may or may not be a criminal prosecution of a person, but whether there is or isn't that doesn't mean that I as an individual can't change my view of that person.
I feel like when someone breaches broadly accepted social standards, they do so at the risk of various negative consequences - be they criminal prosecution, termination of employment, loss of social standing, etc.
I’m sure we can sleep easier in our beds now.
Immediately after the video was released, it must have registered that there would need to be a plan of action as to an appropriate response, you can call it damage limitation or an old fashioned threat analysis. It must have been clear that there would likely be a backlash and no-one would have had clear sight on what impact that would have on the upcoming game, the fans attending, the other players and the club’s sponsors.
Zouma is solely responsible and is accountable for his actions but i feel the club tripped up in not being proactive in their immediate response.
That decision apart, I feel comfortable with the subsequent actions of the club which appear appropriate to me.
You might say Zouma deserves to have this happen but if it was an isolated incident and we still don’t know what prompted it and I doubt it was done as a joke. Maybe the investigation will throw some light on it.
We all have bad days, where we may feel down, unwanted, not good enough etc etc..me included...
I've never once thought about abusing one of my 3 cats....
Kicking them, slapping them, chasing after them to scare them or throwing objects at them that could hurt them... and laughing while it's going down.
Capable of what he done could just be the start of worse things to follow ( not saying it is in his case ) but didn't many serial killers start by hurting/killing animals?
Sorry Thorn, but that comment does not sit well with me or an excuse to do what he did.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/60339439
Who cares if it was planned???
Sorry you might doubt it was planned, but Thorn, would you ever do such a thing?
Only he and his smart brother will know…
But hey his brother had planned to capture it on video, it wasn’t like half way through it happening, so It was planned, to at least capture it all on video, while they having a good laugh…
Great guy…
Both have massively misjudged the situation. I believe it was done for comedic effect but they got it massively wrong & misjudged the fact that most humans would deem that as sick & disgusting & not humorous. Do I believe Zouma is an evil human? No. He should pay for this mistake & he cannot argue about it. Same for his brother.
I do find it hard to feel this should define him as a human, though. His record as a character so far has been flawless & he is a well liked member of the squad & previous squads he had been apart of. This was a moment of idiotic & childish misjudgment that manifested in an act of cruelty & he will now pay the price for that.