08-01-2015, 20:53
Ok, he has completed the custodial portion of his punishment and is now out on license for the rest of it.
Seems Oldham have given in to the mob and after receiving death threats and threats of rape against board members daughters have decided not to sign him after all!! Evans has also issued an apology for the effects his actions caused to various people including the victim. Probably too little, too late, but it is one of the things the mob were asking for. His legal team have not played this well imo, I know he continues to protest his innocence but there was no need for him to admit guilt while making an apology for his action much earlier than today!!
http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/30727380
The problem with this case, and no doubt more to come after this, is that the legal system is working in that he was found guilty by a jury, sentenced, completed his custodial punishment and now is legally allowed to find employment, which from a rehabilitation perspective is the next part of the "treatment". It should be up to individual clubs to make a commercial decision as to whether they want to sign a convicted criminal. But as we stand its the social media mob who are making this decision by use of threats in Oldham's case and by pressuring sponsors in the Blunts case, and while I would not want him at my club, this mob is essentially taking the law into its own hand and going beyond the laws of the land to enforce its own form of justice!! That is a dangerous road for us as a society to go down!!
Also, what do the social media mob want him to do?? He is a convicted criminal, an idiot and a low life but he should be allowed to work somewhere. Say he didn't come back to football, what job should he do?? If he worked for McDonalds on minimum wage, would they be happy with that or would there now be a campaign and petition against McDonalds for employing him??
Seems Oldham have given in to the mob and after receiving death threats and threats of rape against board members daughters have decided not to sign him after all!! Evans has also issued an apology for the effects his actions caused to various people including the victim. Probably too little, too late, but it is one of the things the mob were asking for. His legal team have not played this well imo, I know he continues to protest his innocence but there was no need for him to admit guilt while making an apology for his action much earlier than today!!
http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/30727380
The problem with this case, and no doubt more to come after this, is that the legal system is working in that he was found guilty by a jury, sentenced, completed his custodial punishment and now is legally allowed to find employment, which from a rehabilitation perspective is the next part of the "treatment". It should be up to individual clubs to make a commercial decision as to whether they want to sign a convicted criminal. But as we stand its the social media mob who are making this decision by use of threats in Oldham's case and by pressuring sponsors in the Blunts case, and while I would not want him at my club, this mob is essentially taking the law into its own hand and going beyond the laws of the land to enforce its own form of justice!! That is a dangerous road for us as a society to go down!!
Also, what do the social media mob want him to do?? He is a convicted criminal, an idiot and a low life but he should be allowed to work somewhere. Say he didn't come back to football, what job should he do?? If he worked for McDonalds on minimum wage, would they be happy with that or would there now be a campaign and petition against McDonalds for employing him??