Langan on liveline

[Razors left peg]

That's the risks that come attatched with soccer. If you can stay and on form you'll get huge wages, if you're unlucky enough to suffer injury then suddenly you're Keith O Neill looking for a panel job.
It's not selfless work, all players know what they're getting into.

Dave Langan was not on huge wages

[Drumcondra 69er]

That's the risks that come attatched with soccer. If you can stay and on form you'll get huge wages, if you're unlucky enough to suffer injury then suddenly you're Keith O Neill looking for a panel job.
It's not selfless work, all players know what they're getting into.

Jesus Christ. You don't actually realise football existed before Sky do you?

[sylvo]

That's the risks that come attatched with soccer. If you can stay and on form you'll get huge wages, if you're unlucky enough to suffer injury then suddenly you're Keith O Neill looking for a panel job.
It's not selfless work, all players know what they're getting into.

Its pretty easy this giving craic, if a game is ever put on for Dave Langan, and I really hope one day it is, YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO TO IT, AND GIVE HIM ANY OF YOUR MONEY,NOBODY WILL FORCE YOU. But there seems to be a lot of people on here who feel that he deserves better and deserves to be remembered for the player he was and what he done.

So be a good boy and let the grown up's talk about a great former Irish international player who deserves to be treated better.

[NeilMcD]

Fair play Sylvo. Hope you are keeping well and top post. Langan was a whole hearted player who put it all in for his country. Great crosser of the ball and to think Chris Morris took his place and he could not cross the road. I remember that game in Belgium and I loved Langan that night with his socks down by his ankles I love when Ireland wear all Green also.

[Babysis]

Ray Houghton's column in today's Star is about Davy - good to see he doesn't begrudge helping him.

[lopez]

Look, it's not a case that Langan isn't a worthy cause, it's a case that he's a vocal worthy cause while others suffer quietly which isn't fair. The FAI don't owe him anything so it's not a case of an injustice here it's a similar case to wanting to help the poor out with 50 bucks, the right thing is to give it to an agency responsible and experienced in it, the wrong thing is to give it all to a homeless man on the street. That's how I feel about this.

Technically the FAI weren't his employers, and I think a nice chunk of these overpaid ***kers pay should go to him and his ilk (Tommy Smith for instance who the last time I heard was virtually in a wheelchair).

I was watching a programme about eighties football a few years back and it had Souness claiming his wages were £500 a week in 1983. Nice pay back then (I was on £40 after leaving school getting around £150 as a train guard towards the end of the year) but if you finish work at 32, no education and with a one ticket to being crippled, I think you can hardly say these people were on huge wages.

Certainly, I wouldn't begrudge Dave Langan one last payday.

[KildareFan]

It was in the Star today that Kildare County are to play a Leeds X1 managed by Steve Staunton in July in aid of Dave Langan.

And there will also be a dinner in his benefit in Kildare the night before. Anybody anymore about this?

[Blue Man]

If they were injured in the job and forced to retire from it yes, though let me point out the obvious here. Ireland is his country not his employer. Birmingham or Leicester or wherever he played are his employer, and if he was injured in his job then he should have been paid the remainder of his contract which I'm sure he was like 20 years ago.

He's got everything due to him from the sounds of things, I don't see any injustice here. This just seems like a Charity begging more than anything else.

"Birmingham or Leicester"

Sheer ignorance again. Its been mentioned numerous times what his clubs were so for a throwaway quote like that just highlights the ignorance which has been shown