Recent content by Slops

I'm not judge, jury and executioner. I'm not sending him to jail. I just don't want him to play for this football club anymore. There are plenty of totally justifiable reasons someone might not want a player to play for their club again, that don't involve a criminal conviction. For a lot of...

:lol: again, no one is claiming to be a pure person in this thread, and someone's 'purity' isn't really relevant, but keep banging that drum if you must, I guess.

No one in this thread has claimed to be of a higher mindset, or have ultimate purity. Those are your words and they're hyperbolic nonsense. You don't need to be a flawless person to look at attempted rape, sexual violence, controlling and coercive behaviour and not want any association with the...

Do you have to be a god to consider someone's behaviour to be abhorrent? Or a lawyer to understand that what was said in a very publicly available recording was extremely wrong? Cantona is just another false equivalency in a sea of them in this thread. Should he have booted a guy in the chest...

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You don't have to have lived a life without a flaw to be in a position to criticise the person behind the voice we heard on the recording. I've been in a fight once yeah. Smoked a little weed. Never drove a car drunk. I don't think that rap sheet is enough to prevent me from a career at...

We absolutely do not.

Oh we're not even hiding the victim blaming now. Won't someone please think of the multi-billion pound company.

I can accept that, because I must, and because it's away from the club I support. It's the best compromise on the table. I'll continue to judge him as a person, because of the information that I know. What do you mean 'as if any of you were moral judges'? Do you not think it's fair or...

Is it possible? Maybe. I'm not sure. I'd be very surprised if the club has evidence that is being withheld from the police/prosecution.

It's very possible that United's investigation didn't have access to some profound exonerating evidence, and simply that the statement is very cleverly worded PR. The club can not establish his guilt in a statement. Legally it's something they can't do. Most of us have heard the recording, and...

Well, we can only speculate on whether their view was that it was appropriate for him to return to playing for the club, or that the only thing that led them to conclude that he should play elsewhere is media coverage. We don't know that one way or the other. It's possible. Their handling of it...

An intentional reference :)

Because their quality as a footballer isn't, and shouldn't be, the deciding factor on whether it's right for them to continue to play for the club in the wake of allegations of attempted rape and domestic violence. One person doesn't deserve more lenience than the other because they're a good...