Pull your highly paid bowsies into line, for it is they who give the bad example.
McDowell has been dubbed ‘the Mad Mullah’ by some bowsies in the popular press, but he frequently had the aspect of the headmaster rather than the Allah-Wallah.
Even tennis is becoming populated by the bowsie brigade who ‘cheer’ double faults.
I like players committed and full blooded but I don't like bowsies.
He probably felt that people would say he was the bowsie.
A pity the beautiful game, enhanced by players like the above, is taking a trashing from the bowsies who, unfortunately, populate it, both on and off the field.
He has left a trail of unwelcome headlines and a few bruises to boot, a roll model for borstal bowsies, certainly not juveniles who have not reached the age of selectivity but rather see him as a ‘star’ to be imitated.
The Constitution provides that reports of ‘utterances’ are privileged - that is to say, the poor old Bert has no legal comeback no matter what those bowsies in the opposition say about him.
Indeed, they seem to sub-scribe to the oft-held belief that there is no such thing as bad publicity and that their over-paid bowsies fuelling ticket and merchandise sales.
There was unkind sniggering among opposition bowsies when the question of putting the Luas on stilts at the Red Cow roundabout came up.