Dropped (footballer)

Don't conflate him being dropped (as part of investigation process) with him being summarily found guilty.
He probably has a termination provision in his contract for bringing his club into disrepute.

Blup
 
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He probably has a termination provision in his contract for bringing his club into disrepute.

Blup

Most, if not all of us will.

But I'm sure his lawyers would have a field day if he was sacked solely on someone's accusation, with no evidence at all.
 
These are businesses that proudly monetise their community ties and their family appeal, that style themselves as dream factories, their players as heroes. They are also institutions that hothouse young men on an industrial scale from an ever-younger age, a surrogate school, family, cultural home. And yet as the organisation The Three Hijabis stated last month in an open letter to the football industry, there is no identifiable structure of care here, just an ever more frantic dance of horror, blame and punishment.

“Solely focusing on the actions of individual players allows football clubs and institutions to evade accountability for the role they play in maintaining a culture of silence and impunity a culture that enables these abuses of power and status in the first place,” the letter notes. “This is a structural issue that football must take responsibility for.”

Barney Ronay @the Guadrian

How is it the responsibility of football to monitor the activities of young men after they go on a night out, or what they get up to in their home?
Racism: it's up to football, they say. I'm surprised they haven't pinned migration and inflation on to the Premier League and told them to fix it.
 
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These are businesses that proudly monetise their community ties and their family appeal, that style themselves as dream factories, their players as heroes. They are also institutions that hothouse young men on an industrial scale from an ever-younger age, a surrogate school, family, cultural home. And yet as the organisation The Three Hijabis stated last month in an open letter to the football industry, there is no identifiable structure of care here, just an ever more frantic dance of horror, blame and punishment.

“Solely focusing on the actions of individual players allows football clubs and institutions to evade accountability for the role they play in maintaining a culture of silence and impunity a culture that enables these abuses of power and status in the first place,” the letter notes. “This is a structural issue that football must take responsibility for.”

Barney Ronay @the Guadrian

How is it the responsibility of football to monitor the activities of young men after they go on a night out, or what they get up to in their home?
Racism: it's up to football, they say. I'm surprised they haven't pinned migration and inflation on to the Premier League and told them to fix it.

These young men are in the public eye being paid massive amounts of money by the clubs they represent.
If Racism is up to football then hiw these young men treat women is upto football.

Don't throw stones in glass houses.

"Don't preach to working class people how to behave when you don't know how to behave yourself"
 
"Suspension during investigation" is quite common. Not just for footballers.

Should a nurse suspected of murdering babies have been given the opportunity to murder some more, pending investigation?

Should Jimmy Saville have lost access to vulnerable people?

What about a bank employee suspected of embezzlement?
 
"Suspension during investigation" is quite common. Not just for footballers.

Should a nurse suspected of murdering babies have been given the opportunity to murder some more, pending investigation?

Should Jimmy Saville have lost access to vulnerable people?

What about a bank employee suspected of embezzlement?
You can hardly compare a footballer having a bad break-up with his girlfriend to the abhorrent actions of Jimmy Saville, surely.
Calm down.
The best reason i can see for his suspension is to prohibit the actions of rival fans who'll just twist the situation into a chant-fest at any game he attends. But if he's exonerated, will he receive lost revenue from his contract when he'd reasonably be expected to play during that time? Mason Greenwood didn't.
Seems to me to be a green light to any bint with an attitude to find this a good way to get back at any guy who decided he'd had his fill of a relationship.
 
You can hardly compare a footballer having a bad break-up with his girlfriend to the abhorrent actions of Jimmy Saville, surely.
However, I can very reasonably point out that it is very common to suspend people during an investigation, frequently on full pay.

Do you think that is wrong?
 
Seems to me to be a green light to any bint with an attitude to find this a good way to get back at any guy who decided he'd had his fill of a relationship.

That most clubs don't have this as an issue though, suggests that this sort of thing - domestic abuse, and both warranted and malevolent accusations - is (thankfully, for all parties) not common.
 
Seems to me to be a green light to any bint with an attitude to find this a good way to get back at any guy who decided he'd had his fill of a relationship.

Yes, victims of rape and sexual assault often say that they are accused of making it up.
 
However, I can very reasonably point out that it is very common to suspend people during an investigation, frequently on full pay.

Do you think that is wrong?
Not in these circumstances, no. A public figure will be under more scrutiny and be subject to opinions based on what they hear before the full facts are known. Most people will automatically assume it's the blokes fault. I'm sure someone will provide statistics to back it up. I'd rather wait for the verdict in a court of law.
 
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