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"Oldham pull out of Evans deal

Posted at 11:55

"Oldham board member tells us deal to sign Ched Evans is OFF due to 'enormous pressure from sponsors and threats to staff and their families.'"




"Threats to staff and their families"? I mean FFS!


Reminds me of when Judy Finnigan semi supported him (by saying it wasn't a violent rape). People were so upset by that that they did what? That's right, they threatened to rape her daughter.


We live in a country with a scarily large number of really really really feckin stupid people.


I'm no supporter of Evans, but stories like this make me start to want a club to gamble on him.

That's a rather glib and uncalled for response quids (apologies otta for confusing the names - I should have known better)


I've already alluded to the 70s in my posts (coupled with the fact that in the Polanski case it's been going on for decades and has the victim saying she doesn't wish to prosecute)


I don't recall Assange being tried so can't really comment on the outcome of that case


Not sure how much room there is for shit-stirring these days

Otta Wrote:

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> We live in a country with a scarily large number

> of really really really feckin stupid people.


We always have, difference being that these days they have a voice through social media...and anonymity.


> I'm no supporter of Evans, but stories like this

> make me start to want a club to gamble on him.


Really?...

What sort of quote is that from Harry - is it computer generated ?


The R's boss said: "I think it's about getting a second chance in life. It's very difficult, people make mistakes, dreadful mistakes in life, but people go in prison or whatever they do, whether you've murdered someone or whatever, unfortunately a lot of them come out."

red devil Wrote:

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> Otta Wrote:

>

> > I'm no supporter of Evans, but stories like

> this make me start to want a club to gamble on him.

>

> Really?...



Well no, not really I suppose. But I do hope that any dick head who has threatened anyone's family gets their collar felt.

I have no reason to doubt threats were made by some supporters (after all isn't it one of the reasons Stevie G stayed at Liverpool back in the day?) and two wrongs don't make a right


But equally I suspect some spin in including that as one of the reasons when really it's money and the ongoing damage to their reputation

Yup - it's a terrible world


Now imagine how many of those kinds of messages the victim has been receiving in the last few weeks and wonder why Evans hasn't said anything to ask people to stop it


Basically anyone in the public eye (but especially women) get these threats All The Time

Yeah I get that (but thanks for clueing me in).


The point is that I would rather the club just say "we've decided not to sign him". Saying "we're not signing him because threats have been made" basiocally tells the world "you can get your way, just make threats of violence".

Well, that's rather *why* there's an appeals process isn't it?

Though (and im REALLY no expoert) doesn't it have to be based on new evidence, else its just a retrial.


Having read the linked judge's summary this hardly looks like someone's been fitted up, or a shocking lapse by the jury. Noone's really arguing the events themselves, just that bit of legal grey area between crime and not.

Now Oldham's pulled out, a likely next step for Ched Evans if he still refuses to acknowledge any responsibility could be reputation rehab via a Martin Bashir style stage-managed confessional, or the more usual route of a celebrity reality show, to humanise him and gain sympathy.

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