LINK: Jerome Thomas was arrested for allegedly hitting a girl in the face with his elbow in a drunken brawl (and locked up for 8hrs)
In case you don't have access to The Sun website from work ....
Ace 'hurt pizza girl in brawl'
By JAMIE PYATT .... September 11, 2007
SOCCER star Jerome Thomas was arrested for allegedly hitting a girl in the face with his elbow in a drunken brawl.
Liverpool ace Jermaine Pennant was also at the pizza takeaway bust-up. Charlton Athletic star Thomas and Pennant, both 24, tried to jump the queue after a night out.
Another customer told them to go to the back — and a scuffle broke out as Thomas left the shop in Bournemouth, Dorset. The girl, who is not being named, said: “Thomas’s arms were flailing. I got his elbow in the face, which really hurt.”
Police were called and a female cop wrestled the midfielder to the ground. He was nicked for assault and banged up for eight hours, then released without charge.
The blow is thought to have been an accident. Bystanders said “steaming drunk” Pennant had tried to calm the fracas.
Comments
2. With Pennant?
3. Just why?
What a nob.
Not exactly "A-list" is it?
Exactly. Should know by now that he's going to be recognised, jostled and wound up.
And if he's going out for the night, best to keep a low profile.
Pretty tiresome reading this sort of rubbish really. Whether or not he's actually done anything wrong, I'm begining to think that we might just be better off all round without him and the circus he seems to be a part of (as a clown, no doubt!)
It's a shame, but I really don't think we've got room for big time charlies in our squad at the moment.
All this sell him/ he is big time charlie stuff seems all little over the top to me
They aren't selected for their brains
They are mainly overpaid, young, with too much time on their hands, under a fair bit of pressure from many directions.. and the media trot out this bunkum that they are somehow role models for society.
Derrrr!
you never see the young foreign lads behaving like this?
But they should have learned by now that they are an easy target - and whatever they do or say is going to be magnified and splashed across the papers.
I don't doubt that there was absolutely nothing in it whatsoever. But the point is that this fella seems to regularly attract attention of this kind - for whatever reason - and I am just suggesting that it might not have been a bad idea for us to have cashed in if there was interest. All a bit academic now of course, for a few months at least, but at a time when the squad needs to be focussed on the job in hand the last thing we need is guff like this every few weeks or so.
On his day he certainly can be a match winner. But how many days does he have? I think he's got DRS - Denise Rommedahl Syndrome!
I also don't think footballers are there to be role models, they're there to play football, I do get tired of reading about Charlton players acting like arrogant tw@ts though.
yeah, and was close to going down for it too.
Though Thomas is a bit of a pillock for walking into situations which are bound to be exaggerated and get splashed across the press.
The fact was, he wan't charged.
Jerome Thomas will elbow you in the heaaaaad again
I agree. Bit of a prat for putting himself in that situaction in the first place but It sounds like it was something about nothing. However, I don't think Pards will be too pleased with him
Based on recent events, even though he wasn't charged with anything, do you think he might get a letter from plod "advising" him to stay away from the Palarse home match in Feb?
He often goes 'missing' in games and sometimes doesn't 'turn up' .........
But you're right though. Considering there are so many non-British players in the league these days you don't seem to see any/many of them hitting the headlines like our "stars" do. Must be a cultural thing I suppose.