Well as a profeshnial footballer your conduct is open to scrutiny

including your past conduct, and if he didn't know that his club should have told him.

The issue is he's held up as a role model for others to follow - then they see that s**t on his timeline and think it's cool (or that will be the thinking).

If he still hold those views then he certainly needs the facts of life explaining to him. On the assumption he doesn't, and no reason to suppose he does, because he left the stuff public it's probably right that the redress is also to an extent public - just part of a statement/culture of calling this stuff out when it appears.

To proth's point, if he'd committed a crime he'd have done his time and that would, or should, be the end of it. I've employed ex-offenders in the past and had no issues: our younger selves have all done things that our selves now would never do.

I think it was the fact it was still public on his timeline with no proactive action by him to remove it that was the issue. I have a lot of sympathy for the view that we're all dicks at 13/14 and a lot of gratitude that that phase of my life is pretty much entirely undocumented anywhere...

Posted By: Old Man, Sep 4, 14:25:19