After weeks of speculation about sordid affairs involving another top-paid Premiership superstar who plays for Chelsea Football Club, the news broke yesterday of Cheryl Cole’s split from her husband, Ashley.
The England left-back, who is currently out injured with a broken ankle and faces a race against time to be fit for the World Cup in South Africa has seen a series of front page headlines for the wrong reasons, with allegation of affairs with up to six different women, whilst with Cheryl. Eventually, the Girls Aloud singer has decided enough is enough and rightly so.
Following the recent furore surrounding Chelsea skipper John Terry, this is the last thing that both Carlo Ancelotti and Fabio Capello needed. Capello has come out today with a quote, warning the England team about their future conduct. It will be very interesting to see what the spirit in the camp will be like, with next week’s friendly against Egypt at Wembley looming large. Chelsea have taken action and fined Cole for his actions, reports suggesting up to £400,000. Ashley should be hanging his head in shame, he only has got himself to blame. Excuses are the saddest and oldest trick in the book when it comes to infidelity.
For Cheryl, it’s time to move on and she has such incredible support from her fans and close friends. Girls Aloud will be backing her all the way, as they have done throughout, as will her close associates from The X-Factor. Her performance at last week’s BRIT awards showed bravery, but in reality, she probably should have pulled out, as it sounded terrible. A few days away in the United States were the best thing she could have done, and it is clear that she has done a load of thinking. Ashley had played away before, back in 2007 and it took a lot of courage for him to be forgiven for that. Stupidity should have been stamped on Cheryl’s head if she took him back again. I still think she probably still loves him, but if there is no trust in a relationship, then it just isn’t going to work.
The Cole marriage has been under scrutiny for a while now; it has been one of the most talked about celebrity couples, but nowhere near on the strand of ‘Brand Beckham.’ Yesterday’s news was no surprise at all; it had been expected for a long while. Cheryl has now requested for the media to leave her alone and give time to sort her head out. I would hope that will be the case, though knowing the British media, that’s probably more of a hopeful rather than expectant plea. She can do a load better than Ashley Cole and I do hope that everything will end up working for her in the end.
My final point is on relationships involving sportstars. The Tiger Woods shenanigans before Christmas still burn very bright, especially after his frank press conference last week. Formula 1 ace Lewis Hamilton went his separate ways with Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger at the start of the year, though there is now talk they are back together and now the latest implications involving Terry and Cole. This is the case of ‘Men Behaving Badly,’ and big time. You’d think these highly-paid global stars would be able to keep their trousers on, especially considering the farcical wages they pick up during a horrible economic period. It would be nice to see these guys began again to dominate the back pages for their actual talents, rather than their clear lack of relationship skills on the front pages. Lessons need to be learnt from this wave of cheating scandals, but will they….I really find that hard to believe…
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