Disgrace of a captain. Sell him to PAOK.
Harry Maguire involved in incident with police in Greece - conviction nullified by appeal, full retrial pending
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You said ''Ole the nice guy is a myth that's been debunked a thousand times at this stage'', another poster asked you how this has been debunked also and my own reply was also questioning your claim with my own examples of him being quite lenient. I think Ole will handle this situation fine rather he's a nice guy or not, Woodward and many others at the club will also have a big say I'd assume. Long gone are the days when the manager has the only say regarding serious criminal charges, such as SAF and the Cantona case. There will be a big board meetings on whatever punishment or whatnot is to come.I'm not sure what your point is at all and we are miles off topic.
I was responding to someone who suggested he was a nice guy who wasn't capable of laying down the law in relation to the Maguire situation.
You're now claiming I said he was ruthless.
One of the examples I used of him not being a nice guy was that he moved people on who he didn't want at the club.
You then started talking about two other players who's contracts were extended being less useful than those he got rid of. This seemed completely irelevant to me and even further from the topic at hand.
I then suggested that if you wanted to complain about the manager that you should go to one of those threads and do it there.
You've yet to actually say anything to prove that he is a nice guy who's unable to deal with the Maguire situation.
And then you suggest I should take a break from forums
Not sure the drama or long term problem is even a problem. It's just noise and who chooses to hear it. Nobody got hurt, nobody died, nobody was actually bribed. This is all part of the clicks and sees.
You do that in England and more likely than not you will get the judge screaming at the prosecutor for wasting all of their time
I see no reason as to why he cannot still remain the captain on the pitch. By all means replace him as club captain if you want to protect your ‘image’ but this takes nothing away from his ability to be a captain on the pitch or as a leader of a football team.
Southgate is daft too. If you were going to remove him if he was guilty then you should have not put him in the squad. Idiotic decision.
Southgate is daft too. If you were going to remove him if he was guilty then you should have not put him in the squad. Idiotic decision.
And that further strengthens the point of this. It's such a nothing burger.
https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...y-of-aggravated-assault-and-bribery-in-greece
The trial, days after Maguire’s arrest for allegedly assaulting a policeman during a late-night brawl on Mykonos, began with police prosecution witnesses alleging that the footballer said: “Do you know who I am? I am very rich, I can give you money,” as he allegedly pleaded to be set free. The assertion by two police officers who appeared as key witnesses for the prosecution was among a host of unsavoury claims that emerged at a hearing that Maguire’s lawyer, Alexis Anagnostakis, had desperately tried to postpone arguing he had formally received the charge sheet only hours earlier. In proceedings that from the outset took many by surprise, the judges overruled Anagnostakis’s appeal.
Instead it was ruled the trial – attended by the 27-year-old footballer’s father, Alan – would begin as planned on Syros, the capital of the Cycladic isles to which Mykonos belongs. With police surrounding the building in searing temperatures, the case opened with several hours’ delay after officials had posted on the court’s notice board the names of the three suspects: Harry Maguire, his older brother Joe and Christopher Sharman, a friend. They too vigorously denied the charges and can also appeal. Maguire had flown to Mykonos earlier in the week for a holiday that included teammates Marcus Rashford and Brandon Williams, his fiancée Fern Hawkins and his younger sister Daisy.
The suspects were forced to endure two nights in police cells following the brawl, which is said to have erupted after rival fans publicly taunted the footballer on a day of heavy drinking in a beach bar on the famous party island and after Daisy was allegedly targeted. The defender was alleged to have attempted to bribe law enforcers after being taken to Mykonos’s police station in the wake of the brawl. As the severity of the incident hit home, the centre-back was described by one of the two police officers as not only resisting arrest but pleading to be released. “Please, let me go. I am very rich. I can pay. I am the leader of Manchester United,” he allegedly said.
Another on-duty officer who had rushed to the scene to break up the fight described how he was pushed so hard by the footballer as he tried to detain him that he fell on his back and had to be injected with painkillers.
Anagnostakis, who had flown in from Athens to represent the trio, disputed the account, telling the court that Harry Maguire was deliberately “kicked” and shoved by police officers who also attempted to demean him saying “your career is over”. His clients, he said, had acted in self-defence and had not realised that the men who had come to break up the fight were police officers because not all were in uniform. Anagnostakis, a leading human rights lawyer, who often defends Britons who get into trouble in Greece, said the brawl had been set off when Maguire learned his sister had been attacked by two men. Describing the pair as Albanians he said they had deliberately “injected” the 20-year-old with a substance that had caused her to instantly faint.
Ashden Morley, a friend of the Maguires called by the defence to corroborate the incident, said the group suspected she had been injected with what was described as a rape drug after Hawkins noticed Daisy’s eyes “rolling back in her head”. The group had called the driver of their rented van to take them to the island’s health clinic but found themselves being driven to the police station at the direction of undercover officers, the lawyer claimed. Undercover officers are commonplace on Mykonos to ensure restrictions to contain the spread of coronavirus are being upheld.
Some of the most dramatic moments in the courtroom came when Morley, aged 27, a quantity surveyor, said the group thought they were going to be kidnapped by men chasing them in cars behind the mini-van. “Our bus door opened and five or six males tried to force us off by physically pulling us,” he said recounting the scenes and fear that they were about to be “held at ransom”.
The trial, days after Maguire’s arrest for allegedly assaulting a policeman during a late-night brawl on Mykonos, began with police prosecution witnesses alleging that the footballer said: “Do you know who I am? I am very rich, I can give you money,” as he allegedly pleaded to be set free. The assertion by two police officers who appeared as key witnesses for the prosecution was among a host of unsavoury claims that emerged at a hearing that Maguire’s lawyer, Alexis Anagnostakis, had desperately tried to postpone arguing he had formally received the charge sheet only hours earlier. In proceedings that from the outset took many by surprise, the judges overruled Anagnostakis’s appeal.
Instead it was ruled the trial – attended by the 27-year-old footballer’s father, Alan – would begin as planned on Syros, the capital of the Cycladic isles to which Mykonos belongs. With police surrounding the building in searing temperatures, the case opened with several hours’ delay after officials had posted on the court’s notice board the names of the three suspects: Harry Maguire, his older brother Joe and Christopher Sharman, a friend. They too vigorously denied the charges and can also appeal. Maguire had flown to Mykonos earlier in the week for a holiday that included teammates Marcus Rashford and Brandon Williams, his fiancée Fern Hawkins and his younger sister Daisy.
The suspects were forced to endure two nights in police cells following the brawl, which is said to have erupted after rival fans publicly taunted the footballer on a day of heavy drinking in a beach bar on the famous party island and after Daisy was allegedly targeted. The defender was alleged to have attempted to bribe law enforcers after being taken to Mykonos’s police station in the wake of the brawl. As the severity of the incident hit home, the centre-back was described by one of the two police officers as not only resisting arrest but pleading to be released. “Please, let me go. I am very rich. I can pay. I am the leader of Manchester United,” he allegedly said.
Another on-duty officer who had rushed to the scene to break up the fight described how he was pushed so hard by the footballer as he tried to detain him that he fell on his back and had to be injected with painkillers.
Anagnostakis, who had flown in from Athens to represent the trio, disputed the account, telling the court that Harry Maguire was deliberately “kicked” and shoved by police officers who also attempted to demean him saying “your career is over”. His clients, he said, had acted in self-defence and had not realised that the men who had come to break up the fight were police officers because not all were in uniform. Anagnostakis, a leading human rights lawyer, who often defends Britons who get into trouble in Greece, said the brawl had been set off when Maguire learned his sister had been attacked by two men. Describing the pair as Albanians he said they had deliberately “injected” the 20-year-old with a substance that had caused her to instantly faint.
Ashden Morley, a friend of the Maguires called by the defence to corroborate the incident, said the group suspected she had been injected with what was described as a rape drug after Hawkins noticed Daisy’s eyes “rolling back in her head”. The group had called the driver of their rented van to take them to the island’s health clinic but found themselves being driven to the police station at the direction of undercover officers, the lawyer claimed. Undercover officers are commonplace on Mykonos to ensure restrictions to contain the spread of coronavirus are being upheld.
Some of the most dramatic moments in the courtroom came when Morley, aged 27, a quantity surveyor, said the group thought they were going to be kidnapped by men chasing them in cars behind the mini-van. “Our bus door opened and five or six males tried to force us off by physically pulling us,” he said recounting the scenes and fear that they were about to be “held at ransom”.
I'm certain the club will wait until his appeal before doing anything. The England deselection is a nonsense, he'll be back in should his appeal be fine - you can understand why Southgate had to drop him
This guy Is going into trouble
Imagine if this had been a player from one of erstwhile rivals.
It's pretty shitty of him. What do you think SAF would do?
It's pretty shitty of him. What do you think SAF would do?
So guilty until proved innocent then?
He would have listened to what he had to say and backed him, like he backed numerous players down the years for all sorts of things. That is why players ran through a brick wall for him.
Right decision to withdraw him, I guess Southgate wanted to show support for his players, but once he was found guilty he really needed to be withdrawn.
Think united now have to wait now after the appeal, if the verdict stands then he probably has to lose the captaincy all forgiven criminals(if the appeal upholds his guilt) second chances but they need to earn it.
Think united now have to wait now after the appeal, if the verdict stands then he probably has to lose the captaincy all forgiven criminals(if the appeal upholds his guilt) second chances but they need to earn it.
It does not necessarily have to be corruption in the way that they would take his money (if you want to bribe the policy, it´s better done in a dark corridor anyway, not right outside the police station...), but if they were insulted, they might retaliate in a way that is perhaps not supported by the law ("hi, you called us idiots... we´ll show you..."). I have absolutely no basis for claiming this is what happened, I´m just making the point that corrupt act by the police can involve other things than bribery.
For example? And I don't mean Cantona.
you do know we had a player under SAFs watch who physically assaulted a guy in a stadium full of people, right?
The same as he did with Keane and Cantona
It's not the same case, Maguire wasn't judged the same day. In the example that I gave you Maguire would have been judged on Friday or even Thursday depending on when he was arrested that day. And the issue with your comment and others is that none of us know why it was rejected and what we are talking about from a procedural standpoint. And the Law is procedural, if you don't know what procedure is being used and if it has been used appropriately. And it's pointless making comparisons when you don't know what you are comparing, you don't have enough informations to do that.
Rio, Clayton Blackmore and Jonny Evans on rape charges, Rooney and his exploits with the hookers. Forgot about Roy Keane.
so the plain clothed police officers failed to identify themselves then, and purposely misconstrued the 'I can pay you money' to get him for showing them up physically, on top of all the rest of the shit show.
Cantona was a totally different situation.
keane, Rooney, Rio etc
Ronaldo on a rape accusation too. Keane got up to a whole lot more than came out as well. He sought help for his drinking.
It didn't seem to me you were questioning it though. Either your meaning wasn't clear or I misinterpreted it.
Even so, I fail to see how the club extending contracts of players who weren't sold, which seems to be a financial policy, means he's being lenient but there we are.
My main point was there's little basis in this nice guy image from what I can see and yes as you say this situation will be dealt with by the club as a whole and I don't think there'll be any issues with how the manager deals with it.
Erm .. He was found guilty. Asking for an appeal doesn't grant him innocent status.
What did Keane actually do? That challenge tackle on Haaland? Or Saipan in the world cup?
no its about limiting the damage to our name. All of that stuff can be returned to him if he manage to clear his name
yeah, he assaulted a guy in front of thousands of people just because of something that guy had said. How do you automatically assume that what Maguire did was worse? We don't even know what happened exactly.
For fans who appear to be obsessed with image, there have actually been some of our biggest named players who are not angels.
That was worse - He did it in front of the cameras in a United shirt
Drinking, assault charges
Accused of kicking a woman in a bar before the 99 FA Cup final. He sought help for his drinking. He got in a many scrapes by his own admission but they never came out publicly.
Maguire could be more justified in resorting to violence than Cantona was.
Plausibly if the police failed to identify themselves as police, and the van took them somewhere they were not expecting after one of them was drugged and then grabbed them as they got out of the van, they could reasonably believe that they were being abducted to be ransomed.
Worse?
Where did I say it was worse, I said it was a totally different situation.
Cantona was like that Spurs player (?) who went into the crowd.
Plus his sister wasn´t drugged...That was worse - He did it in front of the cameras in a United shirt
Are you being serious, is that really what happened?
Just need to let the dust settle on this one. I don't think any of us are qualified or have enough information to pass judgement.
Not corrupt enough! They didn’t accept the bribes
That was an assault incited by racist abuse.That was worse - He did it in front of the cameras in a United shirt
I'm not sure what's going on here, but if it's true it's bad and a suspended custodial sentence.
With an £85 million price tag, it's not good for anyone's image "rights".
Anyway, it's football, and tomorrow's chip paper soon enough.
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