Wayne Rooney, John Terry, Ryan Giggs and Kyle Walker. What do they all have in common?  Apart from being millionaire footballers who’ve scored big for club and country, they’ve all played away from home in their respective relationships.   

Walker, the Manchester City defender, has had major success on the pitch for his club but has been a steadier fixture on the gossip pages rather than sporting ones of late. This week he made a tearful public apology after fathering a second child with reality TV star Lauryn Goodman, behind his wife’s back.  

Today on the Indo Daily Fionnán Sheehan is joined by Gemma Abbott, contributor to the UK Independent, and by Daniel McDonnell, football correspondent for the Irish Independent, to ask why do we treat Kyle Walker and other "bad boy" footballers like gods when, as Gemma says it, they’re just "inadequate men"? 

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