• The forum upgrades are now largely complete.
    Please read this thread for more details.
    New user registrations are currently disabled.

BBC Johnson free to play for Sunderland

  • Thread starter Thread starter RTG
  • Start date Start date
Status
Not open for further replies.
All those stressing about the club's image as a result of this if he's found guilty - Sheff Utd didn't seem to be getting stick re Ched Evans. It was all focused on the man in question not the club wasn't it( until they tried to play him after he left prison)
 

Mike said:
No. I am a teacher and if I had been in AJ's position I would have been suspended once the allegation had been made.
What the hell is a grown man doing to put himself in a position where a child can make this type of allegation.
We are about to become the laughing stock of the Premiership.
Click to expand...

You're a teacher, of course you would be suspended if you're be charged on grooming offences, you can hardly compare the two situations.

It's Premier League as well, Premiership is rugby, but that's just a pet hate. ;-)
 
SebastienELLISbexter said:
Well, no, because the whole point of the article is to highlight the fact that in this country you are innocent until proven guilty. Therefore, safc are doing nothing wrong by including him in the squad.

Then you brought up a completely different example of someone who has been convicted of a totally different crime. It made no sense.
Click to expand...
Well, for what its worth I agree. My point was saying in sport people tend to be a lot more fickle. So those who have already made their mind up should think before they comment.
 
SAFC should have either:
not imposed a suspension at all until a bail decision was reached, or,
having imposed it, should only have lifted it once a bail decision not to charge was decided.
What they have now apparently decided on is a cackhanded, duplicitous and desperate course which can only harm the club and player. What a mess.
 
Angelos said:
I think the suspension should never have been lifted in the first place. Now that he will be going on trial regarding the allegations I think it is baffling that the club have decided not to suspend him.
Click to expand...
Because we're desperate. If we were mid table, do you think he would have been available to play?
Think about it man.....

Useless at Roker said:
Suspended when arrested! Right decision

Now charged. Have our club no moral decency?
Click to expand...
Not when there's 80 million quid at stake. No
 
Last edited:
I cant imagine him wanting to play if he's actually guilty of the charges. If we stay up and he plays a significant role... but then is convicted, our survival will be tarnished imo.
 
I
PeruzziWatch said:
The reason I bring that up is because a charge of drink driving is usually going to be black or white, you either did drink drive or somehow the breathaliser was broken or someone has framed you, but that's pretty unlikely. So people generally will condemn something like that immediately because they know it's got to be true. In this case, we cannot condemn Johnson for something he hasn't been found guilty of. All we know right now is that there are serious charges, only the trial will give us answers. People seem to be suggesting that the club are failing to condemn him or something by not suspending him. It's not the club's duty to justify having a contractual agreement with a player with no previous criminal convictions. It is not their fault either that they've winded up being associated with a player who has had charges made against him. Should they be punishing themselves by suspending a player because he MIGHT be found guilty?
Click to expand...


Yes is the answer....this is 'just sport' and they are serious allegations....if he is found guilty the clubs name is mud. I am certainly very uncomfortable to be associated with this. He should be taken out of the spotlight ...no one is suggesting he should be sacked or not paid ...just suspended as most people would be let alone someone in such a impressionable position. Sunderland fans singing his name tomorrow will be a new low. Why the hell wash your dirty linen in public ?
 
Chewit said:
I


Yes is the answer....this is 'just sport' and they are serious allegations....if he is found guilty the clubs name is mud. I am certainly very uncomfortable to be associated with this. He should be taken out of the spotlight ...no one is suggesting he should be sacked or not paid ...just suspended as most people would be let alone someone in such a impressionable position. Sunderland fans singing his name tomorrow will be a new low. Why the hell wash your dirty linen in public ?
Click to expand...

This
 
In the case of someone getting arrested for this type of offence, their phones and computers would be seized and examined. Once done, if the person is then charged not only with USI but Grooming as well, I have to say that it really wouldn't look good at all for such a Defendant.
I don't believe for a moment Johnson will be in the frame of mind to play and given that there is clearly evidence of sexual grooming, I don't want him to represent my club at this time.
 
UrbanFox said:
SAFC should have either:
not imposed a suspension at all until a bail decision was reached, or,
having imposed it, should only have lifted it once a bail decision not to charge was decided.
What they have now apparently decided on is a cackhanded, duplicitous and desperate course which can only harm the club and player. What a mess.
Click to expand...

The club will have no doubt consulted their retained law firm and acted in accordance with their advice. Where's the deceitfulness in that ?
 
JimmyQuinn said:
Those of us who aren't thick enough to think football is the be all and end all, probably.

Not so sure you'd be laughing so heartily if he was found guilty of such things with your own daughter/sister/whomever.
Click to expand...

So you'd rather we went down than AJ scoring a winner in the next 6 games?
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top