Yet another life taken by social media trolls. Such a waste of a life. Hope he’s at peace now.
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I didn't know him, or much about him, but what a tragic ending to a young man with so much to live for.
posted by AC (Guest) - Friday 14th August 2026, 9:08 PM
There are so many people with far worse problems than he had. They live to fight on. Taking your own life so cheaply is wrong and cowardly.
posted by jerome (Guest) - Friday 14th August 2026, 9:12 PM
down at the job center they encourage you to embellish your CV
posted by nite fa (Guest) - Friday 14th August 2026, 9:23 PM
As someone who had a relative take his own life you , Jerome , are talking absolute boll++ks , have you never heard of depression? Idiot.
posted by Mick (Guest) - Friday 14th August 2026, 9:41 PM
No sympathy here. Made a fortune from gaslighting and when queried by two professors he reported them to the Met for racism. He also instructed the libel specialists, Carter Ruck to threaten to bankrupt them with litigation. A rare example of karma actually working I’d have thought.
posted by Mel Blanc (Guest) - Friday 14th August 2026, 9:44 PM
Having a relative take their own life gives you no superior qualifications Mick the d.....
posted by jerome (Guest) - Friday 14th August 2026, 9:49 PM
I know far more about depression than you’ll ever know you sick Cnut.
posted by Mick (Guest) - Friday 14th August 2026, 9:52 PM
R.I.P Finlay Tarling, someone we should all grieve for. Tragic
posted by Dave Sprockets (Guest) - Friday 14th August 2026, 9:54 PM
with an attitude like that i would not be surprised if you drove your relative to it. Miko dicko
posted by jerome (Guest) - Friday 14th August 2026, 9:55 PM
Unfortunately I knew two people, one of which I drove to our matches for many years, who committed suicide, throwing themselves in front of trains, and ironically my Fulham supporting friend, did it at Motspur Park Station, the other one at Croydon. Both Unfortunately, were suffering from major depression, I'm sorry to say.
posted by LTS (Guest) - Friday 14th August 2026, 10:08 PM
I think about the kids in wheelchairs with twisted limbs and their heartbroken but loving parent wheeling them around. So im not shedding a tear.
posted by jerome (Guest) - Friday 14th August 2026, 10:13 PM
Social media trolls? Oh like the trolling of Nigel Farage. The left see nothing wrong with that they are only concerned with the trolling of anyone on their side. Did you see some of the comments from sick lefties when Anne Widdecombe was brutally murdered in her own home. The hypocrisy is just staggering.
posted by Bong Bong (Guest) - Friday 14th August 2026, 10:22 PM
Trolls? Nothing to do with Cambridge University who employed and over promoted a mentally ill Walter Mitty without due diligence and are still encouraging the racial drivel he wrote about?
posted by John Brown (Guest) - Friday 14th August 2026, 10:53 PM
MST you have lost the plot, that has to be stupidest post you have ever made. While any suicide is sad, this guy was a modern day Walter Mitty. Perhaps if he hadn't lied and cheated so much, he wouldn't have had so far to fall and could have seen a way out.
posted by Ted (Guest) - Saturday 15th August 2026, 4:26 AM
I am absolute staggered at the lack of empathy, sympathy and humility on this site. With the attitudes some people have to the tragic loss of a human life, it’s no wonder we live in a society where stabbing and shooting people to death is committed with no conscience. I’m deeply ashamed to be associated by our football club with some of the senseless cowards who contribute to this site!!!
posted by MST (Moderator) - Saturday 15th August 2026, 6:01 AM
Who are you to apportion blame and cast judgement. You run a cheap chat site from your throne and now you sit in judgement like some self professed god with your ever ready delete finger. There is so much worse to worry about going on. It was his choice.
posted by Shakespeare (Guest) - Saturday 15th August 2026, 6:43 AM
Well said Shakespeare spot on.
posted by Animal Farm. (Guest) - Saturday 15th August 2026, 7:09 AM
So having no sympathy for a racist who spent his life lying and cheating and getting rich on the proceeds before taking his life because he was found out means we’re the same as murderers? That’ll be a great consolation to the widow and two young children he left behind to face the fallout of his actions. I’d quit while I was behind if I was you.
posted by John Brown (Guest) - Saturday 15th August 2026, 7:27 AM
Sad and social media didn’t help! Hope he rests in peace! The number of suicides in uk has gone up from around 4000 to 8000 in the last 20 years since Social media came along. Is that a coincidence?? Most likely. I don’t like and don’t use social media. It’s out of control! But You’d also have to remember that without social media, many talented people would not have the same profile and stardom. So, sad death but it is too easy to blame social media.
posted by JohnC (Guest) - Saturday 15th August 2026, 10:07 AM
Whole life built on smoke and mirrors. It’d not surprise me if there are other revelations about to come out. Never forget he was quite prepared to destroy the lives of anyone who questioned him by threatening legal action and declaring them racist which is the biggest crime in the eyes of today’s criminal justice system.
posted by Claude Greengrass (Guest) - Saturday 15th August 2026, 11:31 AM
I know I'm of the older brigade, and I have heard the words banded about, and most of you will have a good laugh, but I have absolutely no idea, what Social medium is, or where you get it. Now that does show my age doesn't it, but it doesn't sound like, I'm missing anything.
posted by LTS (Guest) - Saturday 15th August 2026, 11:32 AM
You are not missing a thing. Think of social media as The Eight Bells on a match day. You might go in there once but after sampling the welcome you’d not go in there again because there’s every chance of getting in bother and only a fool would do that.
posted by Dave Soul (Guest) - Saturday 15th August 2026, 11:46 AM
MSTI WAS WRONG! Your reply was even more stupid.
posted by Ted (Guest) - Saturday 15th August 2026, 12:59 PM
be nice Ted
posted by Tibor (Guest) - Saturday 15th August 2026, 1:40 PM
Just remember that depression can strike any one of us at any time for any reason, it's something that is out of your control once you become depressed and all it can take is that little switch to be flipped in your head for you to take your own life. Social media has a lot to do with it but also the legacy meadia has a lot to answer too as well. I read somewhere that suicide is the biggest killer a men in the uk.
posted by Scott free (Guest) - Saturday 15th August 2026, 4:57 PM
It’s men under 50 so this site should be just fine. There’s no particular evidence of depression in this case. He was fine and still drawing a nice professor’s salary last week as well as preparing for his book launch. Maybe it was natural causes.
posted by Eric Freud (Guest) - Saturday 15th August 2026, 5:39 PM
I disagree with MST on just about everything. But not this. Very sad situation - poor man.
posted by Paul (Guest) - Saturday 15th August 2026, 6:20 PM
But not social media related. Probably the thought of paying back the £1.5 million book advance while jobless. Though racists tend to find a bolt hole somewhere.
posted by Arctic Roll (Guest) - Saturday 15th August 2026, 7:57 PM
Of course it’s unfortunate that any individual should think that the only hope lies in death.
However, this guy was a liar, cheat and a fraud. He was deluded to the point of insanity. Being brutally honest he brought all his problems on himself. Couldn’t cope with reality and in the end couldn’t face up to his deceptions and couldn’t face the world he’d deceived.
MST’s moralising doesn’t cut any ice with me.
Doubtless he will now insult me:))
posted by Mortlake (Guest) - Saturday 15th August 2026, 8:30 PM
It’s trending on X that he is the victim of a modern day lynching by the evil whites. Now that’s trolling
posted by Eric Blowhard (Guest) - Saturday 15th August 2026, 8:53 PM
Can I have some White privilege please I think I’ve been overlooked.
posted by Steve the Greaser. (Guest) - Saturday 15th August 2026, 10:55 PM
Very sad if you are reduced to jumping in front of a train god knows how the drivers can live with themselves after that not sure I could carry. That burden I would definatley not drive a train again and would ask myself why the poor souls did not take an ovedose instead
posted by Ipitombi (Guest) - Sunday 16th August 2026, 9:07 AM
Don't try to educate people about depression just because you had/have it. I believe most people have enough experience or knowledge about the subject to make informed contributions to this debate. By claiming people don't know or care about it is to make huge assumptions, and apportion some sort of guilt upon them.
posted by Tibor (Guest) - Sunday 16th August 2026, 1:22 PM