You're using social media to campaign for economic / career sanctions against an individual based on snippets of publicly available information. That is the definition of trial by social media. What makes it so awful is that it is not a real trial and the individual being attacked never has an opportunity to challenge evidence or cross-examine witnesses as they would in a proper trial.
Take a bow son.
Irrespective of your views about the CPS decision and personal preferences regarding the player's future career, does anyone think that there is any way back for Greenwood at United without a reasonable explanation being offered (by the player and / or the club) for the audio and images that were released? It seems obvious to me that, absent such an explanation, there is no chance that Greenwood will ever play for United again - the magnitude of the inevitable backlash would simply be beyond what United are willing to endure.
True, there is probably no explanation that will fully satisfy all those who have followed this case, but if there is a context to the released material that casts it in a different light and there is a desire to resurrect Greenwood's United career, then the club and / or player will need to elucidate that context, publicly.
Let’s see what The Athletic have to say when he goes to his new club with no explanation being offered.
From the very outset The Athletic set the narrative that the fanbase needs to be outraged when football has never been a morally superior industry. What will happen is, those journalists who were so outraged by the notion of Greenwood playing football again [who have said next to feck all since he went to Getafe] will rehash their stories if there’s a sense he’s coming back only to show they don’t actually give a damn once he’s left & playing elsewhere, again.
We all saw/heard what we saw/heard, no amount of lip service from Greenwood will justify what is quite frankly unjustifiable. Though my view remains that I want my footballers to play football so whilst the industry continues to allow criminals of multiple forms to
do their job, I don’t believe Manchester United Football Club should be in the habit of setting a standard no other club is.
Setting the bar for dismissal at public outrage is dangerous, in particular when the CPS with far more information couldn’t take this further. People need to realise Greenwood doesn’t owe them peace of mind.