hypochondriac

If he genuinely thinks he is innocent why would he show remorse? If it were you would you show remorse if you believed you were innocent? Certainly before all legal avenues have been exhausted.

The reason for barring convicted Sex offenders from working with children and the vulnerable is very different from football. It isn't really the same thing at all is it.

If he had got off after being found guilty then you would have an argument for saying it sends out the message that it is fine to rape. The message it sends out is that if you are convicted of rape then you will be punished but that there is also a chance for rehabilitation afterwards which imo is the correct message unless you want to bring in the death penalty.

I'm a bit uneasy about the conviction when in all possibility she could have said she wanted but couldn't remember.

I didn't say it wasn't...

Apologies if I'm genuinely ignorant of the case, but is it true that the girl herself didn't actually say it was rape but that they decided she was too drunk to have given her consent?

That's the problem imo. How do we decide which crimes warrant a return to football and which ones don't? I mean if lee hughes and Marlon king are allowed back then why should Evans be the one barred from a profession?

Can't be Guan he has been here for years.

Tbf I don't think we will get champions league but it's probably the best chance we will ever have and not impossible (Newcastle were close a few years back after all.) I agree that I would much rather win a cup than qualify for the Champions League because we will get knocked out of it and will have won nothing. It would be as tragic as pompey still hailing the time they nicked a draw against Milan at fratton.

Especially if Morgan gets another yellow. We will need him.

You're certainly unique on here- someone who claims to work for the cps yet has no idea how the cps works!

Taking pleasure is a bit different from a journalist losing out financially isn't it? Personally I think it's paranoid and a bit of a fantasy to suggest there are a group of journalists intentionally writing negative stories about saints in the hope it destabilised them and they miss out on the Champions League. I think that's nonsense.

Certainly seems that way! And Erm I didn't mock anyone, I questioned whether it was an appropriate thing to bring up in a thread about something like crowd sizes. No mocking at all.

You need to see someone about that paranoia.

Are you referring to shearer on motd2? Was very positive tbh.

I can see his point but it would probably have happened anyway. I don't think Hitler's rise to power hinged solely on an ex German war commander giving him credibility. Yes the hyper inflation didn't help but imo it was more about an embarrassed German public wanting some national pride again after being beaten (sort of like the Russian public now.)

Very disappointing. F*ck him.

He was always going to go in the summer. Just glad we got him for a season longer.

Get some friends who are season ticket holders. Like me.

Not sure why. Spurs were clearly better than us on the day.

Shame choice is spelt wrong.

Surely both teams can't make up 11 points on us? Even finishing above one of them would be sweet.

I saw some Arabic looking bloke with a beard in the chapel yesterday if that helps.

Says the man who in the previous post said stop being so childish!

I love that he is described as the man who doesn't get the credit he deserves every single week!