Generic small time football blather thread FOREVER

[wykikitoon 24595]

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[Meenzer 17075]

2 minutes ago, wykikitoon said:

 

[Toonpack 12738]

Chelsea and Villa:

 

 

[PaddockLad 20294]

6 hours ago, Craig said:

They're absolute fucking arseholes. As bad as the Mackems with Johnson. They don't renew his contract and suddenly 4 days later he's charged with this? 

They fucking knew, and they continued to exploit the situation in spite of it. 

Horrendous.

 

Also suggests there's a gooner near the top of the CPS in the London area...his contract runs out and only then he's charged? Fuck off man 😏

[wykikitoon 24595]

9 minutes ago, Toonpack said:

Chelsea and Villa:

 

 

[Andrew 5875]

1 hour ago, wykikitoon said:

 

Dont criticise when you dropped the screenshot with no mention of which clubs it referred to. Half a fucking job.

[Toonpack 12738]

9 hours ago, wykikitoon said:

 

7 hours ago, Andrew said:

 

Dont criticise when you dropped the screenshot with no mention of which clubs it referred to. Half a fucking job.

 

And he put it in a totally inappropriate thread, t'idiot.

[ewerk 35105]

10 hours ago, PaddockLad said:

 

Also suggests there's a gooner near the top of the CPS in the London area...his contract runs out and only then he's charged? Fuck off man 😏

[Diego21 2249]

The Thomas Partey case really makes me wonder what's fair. Should we keep the player out of jail while he's being investigated or rely on the presumption of innocence while a trial is underway?

The reality is that Thomas Partey was arrested by the police and spent several days in jail in 2023, which meant he couldn't travel with the team for preseason training in Germany.

Back then, the press had already leaked a case of rape involving a player from a London team. It was never mentioned publicly, but the Telegraph did say he was an Arsenal player, so everyone knew it was him.

While he was in jail to testify, another case involving another woman was added to the mix.

Later, I remember that videos of him admitting to one of the women what he had done and threatening her were leaked. (For me, at that point, even if the court says otherwise or one of the women drops the charges because they reach a settlement, it's already clear that Thomas is a bad person, and from that moment on, he has my animosity.)

The Telegraph has been reporting more or less regularly on the progress of the case, that in the summer of 2024, Thomas was taken back to the police station because a third woman had reported him, and in January, it was stated that a warrant was already being issued against him and that he would have to testify and face trial in the coming months.

So, Arsenal's position strikes me as unacceptable, cowardly, and groveling. "Thomas is no longer a player for this club, and we cannot comment on that." No. Thomas was a player for your club while he committed those acts. Thomas was arrested twice for those acts while he was a player for your club. And you tried to renew Thomas's contract knowing what was going to happen. That he was going to face trial for raping three women.

Surely, moreover, the one who has not wanted to renew the contract has been Thomas himself, because if he ends up being found guilty, he will run away from England looking for a country where they cannot touch him (Saudi Arabia) and where he can continue playing football for several years, earning a lot of money and improving his image until what he has done is forgotten and expires.

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[Andrew 5875]

City ditched Mendy quite quickly as well iirc. Greenwood was out at Man U.

then you have Arsenal and sunderland.

 

[PaddockLad 20294]

Siggurdsson was arrested for questioning and immediately suspended as the allegations were to do with children  That's an employment safeguarding issue so they had to suspend him (fuck knows why an allegation of adult sexual assault isn't? 🤷‍♂️)  Later no charges were brought, insufficient evidence. 

 

Mendy suspended after he was charged. Found not guilty on all counts at trial. 

 

Johnson was immediately suspended by Sunderland following his arrest, and missed two games before being returned to the team while on bail.He played in 28 games throughout the following 11 months, until he was first dropped from the team on 11 February 2016, and then later sacked by Sunderland, after pleading guilty at trial to two of the four counts put against him.His endorsement by Adidas was also terminated as a result, and EA Sports removed his likeness from the FIFA 16 video game.

After the conviction, Sunderland manager Sam Allardyce faced scrutiny for continuing to select Johnson during his bail, particularly following allegations that the club had seen documents in May 2015 suggesting that Johnson acknowledged his guilt. Allardyce, who had joined the club only in October 2015, claimed that he was not aware of such documents and had always been informed that Johnson was to plead not guilty; a Sunderland press release made the same statement.

 

In court, Johnson claimed that he had confessed to Sunderland chief executive Margaret Byrne on 4 May 2015. Byrne, a former lawyer, was due to appear as a witness for his defence but did not take the stand. Sunderland's supporter association desired to question her over her knowledge of the case. Byrne resigned on 8 March 2016, regretting her "serious mistake", but claimed that she had not made the club aware of Johnson's admission, nor was she aware that he was to plead guilty.

[Diego21 2249]

We suspended Nile Ranger for three months just for a fight at a nightclub.

It's true that he was already dealing with the gun incident and a few other things, but...

[wykikitoon 24595]

There is the other side that people will say 'innocent until proven guilty'

[Tom 14629]

Arsenal must have known something as Miles Lewis Skelly wasn’t allowed to be in the same changing room Partey. 
 

So if they put that safeguarding in place - why not suspend him? 
 

These cases take years so Arsenal must have been told some details.