Rio Ferdinand mum and dad.

[Tashyboy]

Just watching this on I player catch up.

Very thought provoking programme.

 

[Three]

Yes definitely.
Certainly overrides any team allegiances for anyone with a brain hopefully.

 

[Tashyboy]

Yes definitely.
Certainly overrides any team allegiances for anyone with a brain hopefully.

Exactly what I thought but didn't know how to word it 👍

 

[SocketRocket]

Is this about him having to bring up his children?

 

[Three]

Is this about him having to bring up his children?

Yes.
Shows him joining a group of single young dads who have also lost their wives/kids mums, plus a chat with Darren Clarke, plus more.
Quite an emotional watch, well worth having a look at.

 

[SocketRocket]

Yes.
Shows him joining a group of single young dads who have also lost their wives/kids mums, plus a chat with Darren Clarke, plus more.
Quite an emotional watch, well worth having a look at.

I sympathies with anyone losing their wife and mother of their children but it would have been better if they had used someone who was not so rich.

 

[Deleted member 16999]

I sympathies with anyone losing their wife and mother of their children but it would have been better if they had used someone who was not so rich.

Have you watched the programme? What on earth has his wealth got to do with it?

 

[Tashyboy]

I sympathies with anyone losing their wife and mother of their children but it would have been better if they had used someone who was not so rich.

If anything it was probably better that they did the programme on someone " rich" and famous. it showed that these tragedies can and do affect people from all walks of life and money does not count for anything.
He went onto to speak to everyday people who had lost there wives, and in one case where a guy had a new partner, they subsequently lost there baby.
How do they carry on.

 

[SocketRocket]

Have you watched the programme? What on earth has his wealth got to do with it?

If your wife dies and you have young children and are skint then it's a lot tougher.

 

[Deleted member 16999]

If your wife dies and you have young children and are skint then it's a lot tougher.

So that's a no then!

Absolute rubbish, the programme as Tashy says highlighted the emotional side, money is and was irrelevant, do you think them 3 kids suffered less because Dad has money.

 

[Three]

If your wife dies and you have young children and are skint then it's a lot tougher.

I can't speak from personal experience, but I think one message the programme portrayed very strongly was that money and riches make zero difference to the constant heartache that overrides every minute of your life.

 

[SocketRocket]

So that's a no then!

Absolute rubbish, the programme as Tashy says highlighted the emotional side, money is and was irrelevant, do you think them 3 kids suffered less because Dad has money.

I didn't suggest it wasn't hard for him and his kids, did i? All I am saying is that the TV producers would have been better to use a normal working man to portray how the pain and loss losing a mother to your young children affects your ability to cope. If you wish to read more into my reply then that's up to you.

 

[Hobbit]

Before anyone really judges another they "should walk a mile in their shoes." A bit simplistic but unless you've been there you have no idea how you'd react. Yes money will make some logistical difference, but it comes with a curse too. How about the thought of "for all the money I have and the access to the best care available I still couldn't save her."

 

[Deleted member 16999]

If anything it was probably better that they did the programme on someone " rich" and famous. it showed that these tragedies can and do affect people from all walks of life and money does not count for anything.
He went onto to speak to everyday people who had lost there wives, and in one case where a guy had a new partner, they subsequently lost there baby.
How do they carry on.

You're wasting your time Tash, he obviously hasn't seen the programme but feels justified in his ignorance to critisize it and Rio because Rio's got money.

 

[Deleted member 16999]

I didn't suggest it wasn't hard for him and his kids, did i? All I am saying is that the TV producers would have been better to use a normal working man to portray how the pain and loss losing a mother to your young children affects your ability to cope. If you wish to read more into my reply then that's up to you.

You can't comment on how it would be better on something you haven't seen, your opinion is purely speculation.

 

[SocketRocket]

You can't comment on how it would be better on something you haven't seen, your opinion is purely speculation.

I have seen much more than you can possible know.

 

[Hobbit]

I have seen much more than you can possible know.

And its made you cynical?

 

[Deleted member 16999]

I have seen much more than you can possible know.

Q. Did you see the programme?
A. No

But you feel justified to tell those that did how it would of been improved.

It was a fascinating, emotional and incredible insight into one man and his 3 children coping with the loss of a wife, mother and best friend, it didn't need to be made any better,

Nobody with an ounce of decency watched that programme and thought at anytime "this would be better with Joe Average"

 

[SocketRocket]

And its made you cynical?

Not at all. It has made me aware of how bloody difficult it is for people that have nothing to get by in these circumstances and I would have liked to see a program that portrayed that. I guess the nearest I have seen is Yosser Hughes and the despair he had but that was fictional. I have the greatest sympathy for Ferdinand and his loss.

 

[SocketRocket]

Q. Did you see the programme?
A. No

But you feel justified to tell those that did how it would of been improved.

It was a fascinating, emotional and incredible insight into one man and his 3 children coping with the loss of a wife, mother and best friend, it didn't need to be made any better,

Nobody with an ounce of decency watched that programme and thought at anytime "this would be better with Joe Average"

A, Yes I saw it.

And I agree with your sentiments. I am suggesting that there may have been a better way to portray the loss of a mother to a young family but if you wish to see my opinion as an affront on decency them so be it.