Another Autoblog story – football stars top the league of “bad drivers”.
I’m not completely clear on why this is considered “news”. It’s more a statement of the obvious – and it has more than a few links with the previous story from Autoblog about young male drivers’ insurance premiums.
According to findings by insurance firm elephant.co.uk, 28.9 per cent of professional footballers – almost one in three – have flouted the rules of the road and paid the price with points, fines or worse still, bans.
OK, OK. So it’s from an insurance company engaged in promoting itself with one of those daft surveys, but it is still an interesting topic (for a few minutes, anyway).
All it requires is the application of a little logic:
- stupidity, immaturity, and an inflated ego are key factors in accidents among young males
- footballers are usually young and immature
- footballers have bags of money
- footballers have huge egos
- footballers by stupidly fast cars
There’s not much point going on, is there? Like I said, it’s just stating the bloody obvious.