Ignorance is  bliss.

As we get older, we begin to accept that everyone has skeleton's in their closet. We're matured enough to deal with the fact that icons or role models aren't perfect, while kids aren't. You don't tell your kids that Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy aren't real until their old enough to accept it do ya? Media censorship is across the board, doesn't matter if it's sports or politics. You don't see the local dailies pick up on the extra-curricular activities of government officials, unless they're from the opposition camp do ya? Don't we as a people of this nation have a right to know? Honestly, I could give a rats ass if a politician has a fetish for shagging sheep just so long as he gets his job done.

Now I don't like the fact that just because they're superstars, they can act as though they're above the law because they know they can get away with it but at the very least I reckon these cases get settled out of court, and the families of the victims get compensated. It's really hard to find a squeeky clean role model and I'm not sure one exists. With that in mind, we do what we have to do to ensure that young impressionable minds are not corrupted. Sometimes doing the 'right thing' means doing something wrong for the greater good. This isn't my opinion as an adult, for I do think that being famous comes with a price and you have a civic and social responsibility to an upstanding individual. We often forget however that the players we worship on the pitch and sometimes off it, are kids who have been deprived of a normal life and sometimes, do act out. My opinion is based on the fact I think we need to protect young kids from realising that their role models are really, just regular folk who happen to be good at something.