@bankhaunter wrote:
If it can be considered that he has served his sentence and should be allowed to carry on doing the work he is best at then no amount of signatures on a petition should make any difference.
We cannot be in a position where a media (including social media) outcry can dictate how much of a punishment a person receives, we have seen it in the past when the Home Secretary could dictate minimum tariffs for life imprisonment and sentences could vary for purely political reasons.
Where Oldham's fans are concerned, if they don't approve, they can express that disapproval by not attending matches, nothing wrong with that.
Except that he has only served part of his sentance and is out on parole, and I don't see it as social media determining how much punishment he receives.
Let's put it into another context, if a tv presenter had been similarly found guilty and sent down, and been released, would they expect to just pick up the pieces and be welcome back into the fold? I think not.
Would that person even have had their wages paid whilst inside? I very much doubt it - any contract would have been terminated.
This person has not gone on to protest his innocence and attempt to clear his name in a decent and civilised way, he has done so by using social media, with huge financial backing to attempt to coerce others into supporting him, selling his story to the press, and even it can be argued, condoning the hounding of the victim who, if nothing else, he has by any sense of the facts, taken full advantage of and continues to do so.
I'd like to pose some questions that obviously no-one can answer, but it's always skirted around - what happened to those phone videos that were taken by the friends who were permitted to watch this? Did the victim consent to that? How can the victim ever know who has those videos and when it could all come back to haunt her?
Evans has been the architect of all this angst over and over again because, whether anyone wants to accept it or not, he has no intention of even considering that what he did was wrong on so many counts.
And all this rubbish that's going around the media and social sites about he needs to be rehabilitated back into football because that's his 'job', I go back to the TV presenter - that would have been their job too but they forfeit the right to just go back into the public eye because they demand it.
And - has anyone asked the other team players if they actually want to play with him in their team?
Let him continue to serve his parole, in another way that rehabilitates him back into society and if he cannot or will not see what he did that was so wrong, then let him stay out of the public eye for good.
Add another dimension - all sports professionals have a limited 'job' in sport - eventually they have to find something else anyway. How many companies would like to have him on their board as a director? Would any tv company take him on as a sports presenter?
Could he ever get a job coaching young footballers - would you want your child being influenced by him?
If and when he can show some remorse and feeling for the victim, maybe then he could be accepted back into football without further controversy.
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