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Adam Johnson Trial Verdict

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prehab26 said:
It is his fault. Absolutely. However, and it is a big one, which I am not comfortable with is the handling of the case at club level. Poor morals, massive incompetence or negligence. Sorry, I don't find it acceptable and feel this will run and run, that is due to the statement that the club produced and it's lacks of definitive denial of allegations put to them.
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Agree, my feelings exactly.
 
JimmyQuinn said:
Aye of course they do. Young lasses life in shreds while a millionaire goes on plying his trade to the adoration of thousands. Hilarious.
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It's wrong but they do.

Do you really believe the Mags are terribly upset or do you think they're lapping it up without a thought for the girl?

When Rooney was shagging owld prostitutes people laughed without a thought for his family ....... deny it if you must.
 
PTR said:
100 page thread. Sad times.

I'd rather we all simply refused to talk about him, and washed our hands of the entire thing never to be spoken of again.
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To be fair, most are, just some of us are defending the club from criticism.
 
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Reiver said:
It's wrong but they do.

Do you really believe the Mags are terribly upset or do you think they're lapping it up without a thought for the girl?

When Rooney was shagging owld prostitutes people laughed without a thought for his family ....... deny it if you must.
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Not quite the same mind...
 
Reiver said:
It's wrong but they do.

Do you really believe the Mags are terribly upset or do you think they're lapping it up without a thought for the girl?

When Rooney was shagging owld prostitutes people laughed without a thought for his family ....... deny it if you must.
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Some did. Plenty of Mags do, I agree. That in no way makes it right. Plenty more appeal to a sense of human decency and find it entirely abhorrent.
 
Reiver said:
It's wrong but they do.

Do you really believe the Mags are terribly upset or do you think they're lapping it up without a thought for the girl?

When Rooney was shagging owld prostitutes people laughed without a thought for his family ....... deny it if you must.
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Unfortunately, this.
 
Black Cat Gypsy said:
This is what I don't get. He told Byrne he kissed the girl under the age of 16. That was in May but he
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ANonnyMoose said:
I was going to say this. When he "admitted" to a "senior official" at the club that he kissed her, what context was given and/or understood. Kissing a 15 year old isn't de facto illegal - context is everything.

What I am really struggling with is the whatsapp conversation that AJ's lawyers passed to Byrne. Why on earth would his DEFENCE team pass incriminating evidence to his employer? That's a court case in itself! Is there not a huge possibility that the messages passed to the club were in fact incomplete, the chatty start to the conversation and not the later dubious stuff. Only the club, its lawyer and AJ's people know the answer to this.
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This is what would make sense of what played out . Also the meeting took place as the season was ending and at that time his court date was set for 24th August so why on earth would they saddle the club with his wages over the summer if they knew that he would likely be found guilty just after the new season started .
He's a liar , he's manipulated the truth to try to benefit himself and I think the club have handled a horrible situation the best they could.
 
becs said:
It just doesn't make any sense to me at the moment.

He said he wasn't guilty then the club were given evidence. We don't know exactly what documents or evidence were given though. The club have their own legal advisers and would know the sexual messages would be read out in court. I can't get my head around why they would continue to play him, after seeing those messages when it was clearly obvious he was guilty.

The initial messages were just chatty, with nothing untoward seemingly going on. If I had just had those messages and someone saying they were not guilty, I would believe him. Based on the info in the press and his not guilty pleas when the story broke, many Sunderland fans thought along those line and continued to cheer for him on the pitch. We've all been taken for mugs by his lies. I was horrified when I read the messages that came out in the court and feel sick that I believed him initially.
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spot on, there's only one guilty party here but the internet always demands a witch hunt these days
 
JimmyQuinn said:
Some did. Plenty of Mags do, I agree. That in no way makes it right. Plenty more appeal to a sense of human decency and find it entirely abhorrent.
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I didn't say it did.

Fact is that it's juicy stories, like this, that make people buy the Sun, not pressing human rights issues ........ you know it and so do I.
 
I'm sure that given the legal advisors available to the club, they had absolutely no other choice but to allow him to continue. Imagine the shenanigans if they fired him and he was found not guilty. As far as I can see the club have carried out an exercise in damage control. Just decided which was the lesser of two evils. As has been said previously, the press will pursue this for as long as it generates income, which won't be that long. Personally I'm more concerned about what we do on the pitch, rather than what some journalist writes about the club in order to justify his/ her salary.
 
Dilligaf60 said:
I'm sure that given the legal advisors available to the club, they had absolutely no other choice but to allow him to continue. Imagine the shenanigans if they fired him and he was found not guilty. As far as I can see the club have carried out an exercise in damage control. Just decided which was the lesser of two evils. As has been said previously, the press will pursue this for as long as it generates income, which won't be that long. Personally I'm more concerned about what we do on the pitch, rather than what some journalist writes about the club in order to justify his/ her salary.
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Correct. All of this caused by Mr Johnson, who almost seems forgotten by some in the anti SAFC bloodlust. It's odd.
 
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