Harry Maguire involved in incident with police in Greece - conviction nullified by appeal, full retrial pending

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Oh yes the typical British get away from jail card. Unfortunately it won't work in this side of work.
Wtf are you talking about? You asked if somebody would try to bribe a police officer to stop them going to jail. You’re now throwing xenophobic anti-British comments about :lol:
 

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£190,000 a week, guilty or not you‘d think he would be smart enough to choose somewhere more exclusive and private than Mykonos. It’s not like he can’t afford it.

He must be craving some kind of power/attention fetish being surrounded by back slapping football fans.
 

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Brits abroad are the biggest wankers going, though.
Yes. There are some absolute cretins. But until we hear the facts, we don’t know what happened.

I also don’t know how we’ve got to this point, it started with me pointing out the ‘bribe’ was most likely a drunk man pulling a hundred euros out of his wallet as opposed to some oceans eleven type heist. Then answered whether somebody would try to bribe police. When I’d imagine that’s fairly common when alcohol is involved with rich people
 

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I don't understand why people question why we are discussing this. It's literally the only thing interesting happen at the club at this moment. Let us have our fun.
 

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In all seriousness though 2 nights in jail and now Ferguson giving character references and stuff, he must be in pretty deep shit..
 

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Wtf are you talking about? You asked if somebody would try to bribe a police officer to stop them going to jail. You’re now throwing xenophobic anti-British comments about :lol:
I am referring to the too drunk to think card. I've lived in the UK for nearly half a decade and I was always fascinated how far people would get out of things thanks to it.

It won't work in this part of world unfortunately
 

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Yes. There are some absolute cretins. But until we hear the facts, we don’t know what happened.

I also don’t know how we’ve got to this point, it started with me pointing out the ‘bribe’ was most likely a drunk man pulling a hundred euros out of his wallet as opposed to some oceans eleven type heist. Then answered whether somebody would try to bribe police. When I’d imagine that’s fairly common when alcohol is involved with rich people
How do you know that about the bribe though? It’s no different to devilish version. Both made up
 

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The amount of Liverpool fans on Reddit and twitter calling him a disgrace and a terrible role model who should be stripped of his captaincy without even a smidge of irony is just unbelievable.
 

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No idea how jurisdiction works in Greece but no way would he go to jail for first time offences like that here in Austria.
There's feck all chance he'll go to prison. Misbehaving tourists in Greece tend to be heavily fined, perhaps receive a suspended community sentence and then deported.

Jailing tourists for getting into drunken fights would backfire. They'd have to do something completely over the top to actually end up behind bars.
 

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The amount of Liverpool fans on Reddit and twitter calling him a disgrace and a terrible role model who should be stripped of his captaincy without even a smidge of irony is just unbelievable.
Who gives a feck what Liverpool fans have to say about anything, not least the captain of Manchester United. Let them have their aneurysm over it for all I care.
 

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I am referring to the too drunk to think card. I've lived in the UK for nearly half a decade and I was always fascinated how far people would get out of things thanks to it.

It won't work in this part of world unfortunately
People are idiots when they’ve had a drink. And I’d be willing to bet it does work with police a hell of a lot. Anyway, we don’t know what’s happened so it’s all just guess work at this point. Best waiting for the facts
 

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There's feck all chance he'll go to prison. Misbehaving tourists in Greece tend to be heavily fined, perhaps receive a suspended community sentence and then deported.

Jailing tourists for getting into drunken fights would backfire. They'd have to do something completely over the top to actually end up behind bars.
If it's true he punched a cop then continued to kick him when he was down, that's a bit more than a drunken scrap with another affluent, like-minded pisshead.
 

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Greece=nice weather and great food.
I'd do the same if I could - except for the getting into a brawl part of it. Poor Harry will probably never want to have some gyros anymore after this. What a terrible fate that is.
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How do you know that about the bribe though? It’s no different to devilish version. Both made up
I don’t know. That’s why I said it’s more likely. Seeing as though the bribe reports came out pretty quickly, I don’t know how it could have been ‘Harry sending somebody’ opposed to one of his mates offering the police money at the time of arrest
 

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The amount of Liverpool fans on Reddit and twitter calling him a disgrace and a terrible role model who should be stripped of his captaincy without even a smidge of irony is just unbelievable.
Lets be honest, if it was Jordan Henderson (god I wish it was) this place would have gone into total meltdown.
 

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People are idiots when they’ve had a drink. And I’d be willing to bet it does work with police a hell of a lot. Anyway, we don’t know what’s happened so it’s all just guess work at this point. Best waiting for the facts
From experience I can assure you that people tend to act more like idiots when they know that they will probably get away with it. I found the British police tend to treat drunks with far too much leniency. Which kind of explains why shit tend to hit fan when people who are used to such mentality go abroad

I had my lion share of binge drinking in my life and I got a liver to show for it. Despite all I never ever lost control of myself. I knew exactly what I was going into
 

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Have they come to conclusions? Being skeptical of reports from a highly corruptible source with a history of bribery and unwarranted violence isn't unreasonable. Wanting to see some solid evidence of his supposed wrong doings isn't unreasonable. But balancing being British again being undeniably corrupt is entirely unfair, and I think you know that.
Basically yes, this is a well known tactic.

obviously they’ve just realised theyve got harry maguire in the cell and are now trying to make it seem proper serious so they haven’t just arrested him for nothing.

they’ll drop the chargers after no further evidence was provided.
This is just one example but there’s a few posts with similar sentiments. Of course people should want to see evidence before assuming Maguire’s wrong doing but no one can convince me that the same logic shouldn’t be applied to all parties. Concocting stories out of thin air to prove Maguire’s innocence is just as bad as presuming his guilt.
 

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Who gives a feck what Liverpool fans have to say about anything, not least the captain of Manchester United. Let them have their aneurysm over it for all I care.
Lets be honest, if it was Jordan Henderson (god I wish it was) this place would have gone into total meltdown.
Well they seem to be forgetting about Gerrard and Phil Collins and it’s just quite funny.
 

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I think it’s certain that if we or England ever play in Greece in the future Maguire won’t be allowed in the country to play.
 

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I don’t know. That’s why I said it’s more likely. Seeing as though the bribe reports came out pretty quickly, I don’t know how it could have been ‘Harry sending somebody’ opposed to one of his mates offering the police money at the time of arrest
But it’s not more likely, you’re totally making that up, anything could have happened. The shit you’re giving devilish is A bit ironic when you’re making stuff up about bribes and drunkness
 

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I think it’s certain that if we or England ever play in Greece in the future Maguire won’t be allowed in the country to play.
I was thinking the same thing gets deported and not allowed back in the country
 

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If it's true he punched a cop then continued to kick him when he was down, that's a bit more than a drunken scrap with another affluent, like-minded pisshead.
If he had really punched a cop they wouldn't have asked him to follow them to the station in a taxi.

I know somebody who had something very similar happen to them in Greece. There was a massive overreaction from the Greek police aimed at getting a public apology and a hefty fine out of them before being released with a minor charge on their record. I am certain this is what will happen with Maguire, it's how they operate over there.
 

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If it's true he punched a cop then continued to kick him when he was down, that's a bit more than a drunken scrap with another affluent, like-minded pisshead.
They'll get him off 100%. Plus from what I'm reading here the police officers were plainclothes, like most police on islands, trying to catch drug trafficking or observe potential breaches on covid restrictions from club owners. Add to that the language barrier and his lawyer will successfully argue he didn't even know, let alone mean to, fight a cop.

Fine, written apology, suspended community service (never to be done) and on a plane back to Manchester. Betting money on it.
 

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If he had really punched a cop they wouldn't have asked him to follow them to the station in a taxi.

I know somebody who had something very similar happen to them in Greece. There was a massive overreaction from the Greek police aimed at getting a public apology and a hefty fine out of them before being released with a minor charge on their record. I am certain this is what will happen with Maguire, it's how they operate over there.
Who knows but I thought the allegation was that the cop punching part was at the station, not the bar.
 

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Who knows but I thought the allegation was that the cop punching part was at the station, not the bar.
In the initial police statement they said it happened outside the bar, but then that statement was aimed purely at maximum press coverage/$$$.
 

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It seems it’s all under control anyway... :lol:
The absolute worst punishment they could give Harry would be to get Sir Alex to pick him from the airport and give him a dressing down from the godfather of football.

If I was Harry that would resonate most with me and I'd be feckin devastated to have let him down.
 
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