Ched Evans signed by Oldham Athletic

House, I agree.

Sashh, there is nothing that puts him in a position to rape again during the course of the job (match, training etc) so it is unlikely the parole officer can object on that basis. He might be restricted from going to certain things like schools though.

HouseWhereNobodyLives

Surely his position as a footballer put him in a position where he could rape and shouldn't that mean he shouldn't be allowed to?

Anyone up for some activism?

Assuming he is signed and put on the team, he has to inform his parole officer if he stays anywhere overnight, so I'm thinking at away matches would the team be staying in a hotel? Can we contact hotels and ask them not ot have him stay? After all the last time he rented a room it was to rape someome

I'm following both of you now

Just a thought, don't the parole people have to give permission for him to work?

To those of you on twitter with names I don't recognise Blef is feeling quite down at the moment in her words "feels like we've lost" so if you could just let her know, as you have me on here, that you have seen what she's doing and noticed it.

Just unfriended a load of people posting on Facebook about how he's served his time, the girl was crying wolf (y'know, because we clearly know better than the court who convicted him), he deserves to be allowed to make a living, he was innocent anyway...

Fucking hell. There's an even mix of men and women posting this. It makes me so sad that some people have such a low idea of how women can expect to be treated in this country. And of course, there's no mention of how this "hard-working, talented footballer" encouraged friends, family and fans to hound his poor victim away from her home and her family.

He was older than his victim.

So tired of this. It's just so wrong and I'm sick of all the pro CE rapist arguments. Feel a bit hopeless about it all. 58,000 signatures on a petition and he still gets signed? Are we women just still so powerless against sexual violence in the 21st century? Guess we are...

God yes, the young lad, the boy.

The fucking minimisation.

Basil..

Excellent blog post. I agree with your thoughts about why this has been leaked as a drip feed.

What I don't understand, is why the argument that he has "done his time" has any weight anyway? I would expect most rapists who have "done their time" would find it hard to get work at all.

I couldn't help the inadvertent eye roll when Eric Hall kept trying to refer to him as a young lad.

Because as a young lad, he's a good one, an innocent, harmless, obviously not capable of rape. Which is why it's so good to see much of the media referring to the convicted rapist Ched Evans. It at least goes a little way to offsetting the 'young lad' portrayal his supporters keep coming up with.

Seriously, I think that's what it is.

For 3 months, he's been going round the lower league circuit asking men to let him "get on with his life" (kicking a ball on a Saturday afternoon and then going out for a spot of rape in the evening). All these men have bent over backwards to try and accommodate him, because when it comes down to it, many of them simply don't recognise what he did as rape.

Did anyone see that ape, Eric Hall, on Channel 4 news last night? Jesus effing Christ, I could not believe what he was saying. He actually tried to stop Charlie Webster naming Evans' crime. What a total ubernob.

Trojan I suspect they're doing the leaking to a) see how much of a furore it would cause if they signed him up and b) to say to rapist girlfriend's dad "see, we'll lose this sponsor if we sign him, how much will you pay us?"

It's disgusting.

Basil

'Bros before hos'

A blunt assessment but one that I sadly suspect is far too accurate.

Sadly, Blef & sashh getting shit on Twitter doesn't surprise me. It is depressing, though.

I sat in my office today listening to 2 of my male colleagues going on about how it's not right to put "another level of justice" on top of what's already there (these are men who work with orgs which carry out CRB checks or whatever they're called nowadays) and saying how footballers are not role models. Perfectly normal nice men, disapprove of Ched Evans and know he's a rapist, but can't see why this is so shit.

I was gibbering with rage.

So I wrote this herbsandhags.blogspot.co.uk/

Blef is still Tweeting away, still getting huge amounts of shit.

Yes, I remember when I first read about the CE case there were two Twitter accounts that I really noticed, it was yours and another 'Blef' (or something very similar to that).

Sashh, no info is the way forward!

So sorry TeamRape has been going at you too. The block button has been working overtime!

"Is it a female vs male divide on the evans issue?"

No. Most posters on ARRSE's Ched thread condemn the rapist. They do have some supporters (as on MN), but they aren't making headway.

Koala I think i'm the only sashh, yes I have had a lot of abuse, which is why there is nothing on my profile on twitter, threats mean nothing if they don't know where you live