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Nathan Ashton - former player turns robber

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  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,846

    A lot of youngsters don't realise that you haven't made it until you have made it. The closer you get, the harder you have to work. Until you do make it, you need a plan B. But having that has to come from inside the player, clubs can only do so much.

    But clubs can do so much more in preparing their academy players for life after football - whether that be at 16 if they don't make it or after a successful career at say 35.

    They don't because it costs money in ensuring their scholars have a rounded education both in academic terms and also in dealing with life.

    The FA and FL also have a responsibility to make it happen.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,026
    edited July 2016
    SUBSTITUTION: Ashton for Floyd Hasslebaink

    Bad Boys XI

    This changes the formation of the team from a fraeyesque 3-3-4 to a more workable 4-3-3. It gives us far better balance along the back and importantly replaces a juvenile delinquent with a proper adult criminal. It does still leave a huge gap down the right hand side but anyone venturing too far down there is going to get seriously threatened by Omazusi.
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,319
    Never realised that Patrick Kluivert was done for Manslaughter?

    Although is quite bad when Luke McCormack (Plymouth Goalkeeper) doesnt get included
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,729
    bobmunro said:

    A lot of youngsters don't realise that you haven't made it until you have made it. The closer you get, the harder you have to work. Until you do make it, you need a plan B. But having that has to come from inside the player, clubs can only do so much.

    But clubs can do so much more in preparing their academy players for life after football - whether that be at 16 if they don't make it or after a successful career at say 35.

    They don't because it costs money in ensuring their scholars have a rounded education both in academic terms and also in dealing with life.

    The FA and FL also have a responsibility to make it happen.
    It is true, but so many boys and young players don't think it applies to them when they are told about so many not making it. I have seen many boys who have played with my son over the years who are not interested in anything else, and neither are their parents! I don't think you can teach people who don't want to learn!
  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,229
    edited July 2016
    From a football point of view,
    How can a guy who is considered good enough to play 20 matches for England from U16 to U19 have such a poor record even in lower League ?

    From a bank (bookies) robbers point of View.
    Make sure that your get away driver hasn't registered the car in his own Name!
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,651
    edited July 2016

    Didnt he play for us in the League Cup against Carlisle (Back when we were a Premier League team)

    Yes I was there and thought he looked decent.

    There'll be a thread on here somewhere.

    Found it! And no I didn't know I started it until just now! What's frightening is that it was nearly 10 years ago.

    http://forum.charltonlife.com/discussion/472/carlisle-game
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,850
    bobmunro said:

    A lot of youngsters don't realise that you haven't made it until you have made it. The closer you get, the harder you have to work. Until you do make it, you need a plan B. But having that has to come from inside the player, clubs can only do so much.

    But clubs can do so much more in preparing their academy players for life after football - whether that be at 16 if they don't make it or after a successful career at say 35.

    They don't because it costs money in ensuring their scholars have a rounded education both in academic terms and also in dealing with life.

    The FA and FL also have a responsibility to make it happen.
    To be fair our academy does try and give young players a more rounded education, and the vast majority of the hundreds of released players over the last 10 years or so have NOT ended up in a life of crime
  • Talal
    Talal Posts: 11,490
    Piece of shit
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,026

    Never realised that Patrick Kluivert was done for Manslaughter?

    Although is quite bad when Luke McCormack (Plymouth Goalkeeper) doesnt get included

    I'm sure McCormack would fit well in there, but there's a lot of drink driving in that all-star bad boys team. I felt that we needed to pick some other sort of crim to broaden the experience of the team. As for Higuita, he's a kidnapper, how on earth could he be left out.
  • LawrieAbrahams
    LawrieAbrahams Posts: 3,779
    Is Lionel Messi not good enough to get in that team?
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  • Stig said:

    SUBSTITUTION: Ashton for Floyd Hasslebaink

    Bad Boys XI

    This changes the formation of the team from a fraeyesque 3-3-4 to a more workable 4-3-3. It gives us far better balance along the back and importantly replaces a juvenile delinquent with a proper adult criminal. It does still leave a huge gap down the right hand side but anyone venturing too far down there is going to get seriously threatened by Omazusi.

    Wittiest thing I've seen on this site for quite a while!
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,850
    Nathan Ashton, 29 who played Premiership football on the wing for Fulham before moving to Crystal Palace and Charlton targeted betting shops across London and the South East.
    A fair number of inaccuracies in one sentence! Apart from anything else, he only made one appearance for Fulham!

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  • Bolderhumphreyreid
    Bolderhumphreyreid Posts: 2,553
    edited July 2016

    Nathan Ashton, 29 who played Premiership football on the wing for Fulham before moving to Crystal Palace and Charlton targeted betting shops across London and the South East.
    A fair number of inaccuracies in one sentence! Apart from anything else, he only made one appearance for Fulham!

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    Not forgetting the photo of poor Kevin Lisbie (not this one but the one in the article)!
  • Pedro45
    Pedro45 Posts: 5,823

    Nathan Ashton, 29 who played Premiership football on the wing for Fulham before moving to Crystal Palace and Charlton targeted betting shops across London and the South East.
    A fair number of inaccuracies in one sentence! Apart from anything else, he only made one appearance for Fulham!

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    Not forgetting the photo of poor Kevin Lisbie (not this one but the one in the article)!

    They probably got the picture from the club!
  • Norman_Smith
    Norman_Smith Posts: 338
    Bookies have been robbing me for years
  • cazo
    cazo Posts: 1,483
    Fuck him scum shit
  • tom_k
    tom_k Posts: 1,207
    Forced into a life of crime due to debts incurred whilst betting.
    Charlton in the mean time get a betting company as a shirt sponsor.
  • clive
    clive Posts: 19,456

    Ex-Premier League footballer Nathan Ashton jailed for raping two women in separate sex attacks

    Nathan Ashton, now 37, has been sentenced to 16 years for two separate sex attacks, eight years apart, at Reading Crown Court

    https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/nathan-ashton-jailed-rape-women-33256980
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  • Covered_End_Lad
    Covered_End_Lad Posts: 5,725
    Wrong'un
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,621
    What a wasted life. Hope he serves his full sentence. Despicable person.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,850
    Blimey, another one for that "bad boys 11" thread from a few weeks ago! I always thought he was a full back?
    Yikes, he's now the bad boys 11 star player  :#
  • Alwaysneil
    Alwaysneil Posts: 13,806
    All that's wrong with the criminal system.

    He was given 15 (FIFTEEN) years in 2015 for armed robbery....... so how comes he was out in 2022 to rape someone.

    We need to build a load more prisons so that prisoners are not released early. 15 years should mean 15 years. 
    You do realise that when sentencing, it is known that prisoners with good behaviour will be released with 50% of rhe sentence served (now 40% I believe) and the sentences given reflect that knowledge?
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,270
    And he thought he'd celebrate his good behaviour by raping someone? 

    Should have the 8 years he didn't serve tacked on and no chance of an early release this time around, see how he likes 24 years in the clink as a known rapist
  • Scumbag
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,628
    All that's wrong with the criminal system.

    He was given 15 (FIFTEEN) years in 2015 for armed robbery....... so how comes he was out in 2022 to rape someone.

    We need to build a load more prisons so that prisoners are not released early. 15 years should mean 15 years. 
    You do realise that when sentencing, it is known that prisoners with good behaviour will be released with 50% of rhe sentence served (now 40% I believe) and the sentences given reflect that knowledge?
    Yes I did. But it shouldn't.

    Might as well make a 15 year stretch 7 years. 

    And perhaps his 2nd 15 year stretch should mean 15 as obviously "good behaviour" is foriegn to him. 
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,045
    I hope that people that serve a prison sentence can come out a better person and not reoffend.
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,008
    I hope that people that serve a prison sentence can come out a better person and not reoffend.
    The majority in the UK return to prison quite quickly due in no small part to lack of accomodation and few wish to employ them. 
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