Diogo Jota

[BainesontoastNEW]

Tragic but frankly innocent lives are lost via vehicular accidents every hour around the globe and considering the dire humanitarian crisis & ongoing genocide, the imbalance on empathy for human suffering and loss is incomprehensible

You would not be posting this if it was Raphinha - also 28 btw - killed in a road accident! Nor would you expect someone else to hold a similar view. Are you just after the controversy? Show some compassion.

 

[Andyramone]

Appalling news..

 

[larbert toffee]

RIP Diogo and also his brother, shocking news, their poor family.
My youngest lad is the same age, this has taken the wind out of my sails today.

 

[TexanToffee]

What horrific news. Nothing more to say really. Awful.

 

[lieneverton]

Just no age at all. Really hard to fathom this.

 

[FCBarça]

You would not be posting this if it was Raphinha - also 28 btw - killed in a road accident! Nor would you expect someone else to hold a similar view. Are you just after the controversy? Show some compassion.

For any celebrity, footballer or not

Innocent loss of life is not exclusive to celebrity, when there’s an outpouring of empathy or support for famous people in face of unconscionable genocide humanity loses

 

[FCBarça]

That might be true. But there's sometimes a better time and place to remind people of that. Now maybe isnt the best time or place..

When out of curiosity? 2 lives make headlines and outpouring of support while ignoring millions devastated in prime time

 

[Efcjake]

Tragic but frankly innocent lives are lost via vehicular accidents every hour around the globe and considering the dire humanitarian crisis & ongoing genocide, the imbalance on empathy for human suffering and loss is incomprehensible

There always has to be one nobhead.

Pipe down you Swiss bell. There is no "imbalance" you overly philosophic cockwomble.

It's just simply he had a global profile so there is a global outpour of empathy. It's not a competition of empathy sweepstakes.

 

[FCBarça]

I'm sorry I don't agree with all this "what about people dying in this place" nonsense. Obviously Hillsborough disaster had stronger emotional affect on Scousers Red and Blue, because it was or could have been their loved ones. Rhys Jones murder affected people in Liverpool, because it was closer to home. Because millions have watched Jota play, they'll notice him gone. Nobody's claimed his life is worth more than someone who dies on M62, it's just not normal for a 28 year old premier league player to die.

You don’t have to agree anymore than I do with you. I’m a trained physician who strives to preserve life

We worship loss of celebrities over innocent men, women and children where it is far more abnormal if not abjectly evil

Tomorrow it’ll be some actor who passes which will be tragic but we can’t even protect innocent people from ongoing genocide.

We’ve become immune to horrific warring but lament a millionaire footballer - imbalance is putting it mildly

 

[FCBarça]

Just different if it's someone of whose existence you are well aware of and who has been part of your actual conscious experience. But maybe you are a superior purely rational being.

This is awful and of course very upsetting having just seen him living and breathing and playing for his country a few weeks ago.

I don’t know Jota anymore than you might, moreover I know none of the innocent men, women and children slaughtered in Palestine. What’s your point?

 

[FCBarça]

Imbalance? This is a thread on a football forum about a footballer who plays for our neighbouring club who died tragically young and not somewhere to balance empathy for global human suffering.

Terrible news and thoughts especially with the family who have lost two young men.

No other threads in this forum than football?

 

[Efcjake]

You don’t have to agree anymore than I do with you. I’m a trained physician who strives to preserve life

We worship loss of celebrities over innocent men, women and children where it is far more abnormal if not abjectly evil

Tomorrow it’ll be some actor who passes which will be tragic but we can’t even protect innocent people from ongoing genocide.

We’ve become immune to horrific warring but lament a millionaire footballer - imbalance is putting it mildly

No, I don't believe that for a second.

Some Swiss Barca plastic who wastes their time on an Everton site is a trained physician?

In the bin with that

 

[dachshund]

I don’t know Jota anymore than you might, moreover I know none of the innocent men, women and children slaughtered in Palestine. What’s your point?

The point is right there in what I wrote but I'm not surprised that you seem to have missed it.

Plus, plenty of people on here lamenting what is happening in Palestine who also at the same time lament the death of an individual that they know the name of, recognize their face, in most cases seen him do his job on the pitch and just knowing that despite him being a millionaire footballer there's an entire family completely wrecked by this at the moment.

Don't see the either/or here. But it's nice that you find self-worth in your moral superiority and if it gets you through your days then by all means carry on.

 

[IllinoisBlue]

This is very sad news. He was very talented player. Condolences to his family.

 

[NathDogg]

When out of curiosity? 2 lives make headlines and outpouring of support while ignoring millions devastated in prime time

Not the time or place for this here mate.

No one here is diminishing or ignoring what’s happening in Palestine, Ukraine or anywhere else at all, poor form to suggest otherwise.