Chelsea in the 60s and 70s had a great winger Peter Houseman. He was great... think Robben
Him and his wife and and another couple were killed outright by a head on smash by a drunk driver.
That driver was the son of a tory MP and was Bullingdon Club member Bartholomew Smith who drove himself home from an alcohol-fuelled dinner.
Driving at over 100mph, he lost control, collided with an oncoming car, and killed all four occupants. Peter Houseman, his wife and their friends. He walked free from court after his lawyers argued there was insufficient proof to convict him of drink driving.
We've had a PM Cameron and the present one Alexander de Pfeffel Boris Johnson both in the Bullingdon Club at Oxford university.
Its an exclusive club for the very wealthy that smash up restaurants, burn £50 in front of the homeless, and get away with murder.
Four lives. No sentence.
Boris Johnson recently distanced himself from Bullingdon behaviour he now dismisses as ‘toffishness and twittishness’.
But that makes it sound like something you’d smile ruefully and ruffle his hair for.
Oh, twittishness.
Like scrabbling around for your specs when they’re on your head.
But brutish, violent behaviour can’t be shrugged off that easily.
Neither can the fact that its perpetrators escape justice time after time. That instead they face futures of ever-increasing promotion and influence.
Thats how our great player died, and the perpetrator escaped any justice.