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Originally Posted by nomadking
She didn't get there with Ched Evans, she got there with McDonald. If they had both been found guilty, that would have been one thing, but to find McDonald not guilty and Evans guilty, is quite another.
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Yes that bit I still don't really understand.
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Originally Posted by Kursk
Evans can, apparently, kick a ball. The financial reward for this is ridiculously high but it's one way that civilised people satiate their need for competition. Football has rules. Society has rules. Evans decided those rules do not apply to him so he's been sent off.
He still professes his innocence. He has stepped outside the rules and by doing so he is excluding himself from the game of life and football. Any decent person would not have taken advantage in the circumstances he found himself in. And any decent person who had made a mistake would admit it. His time is not served until he accepts he was wrong.
I don't think he can let himself back into football until he accepts his guilt and pays reparations to his victim.
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Presumably all that applies to anyone who commits a serious crime, not just footballers. What test would you suggest applying to assess the sincerity of any future acceptance of guilt by Evans or anyone else is a similar situation? Let's face it, it'd be the easiest thing in the world for someone to say a few words but not really mean them or intend to change their behaviour or views.