to post a link to an Oldham sponsor that will continue to support them even with Ched Evans?

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If it would be, please ignore this.

If not, here it is. www.cmsolicitors.co.uk

Plenty of contact details too. :-)

If there is a financial guarantee to be worked out, it will take some time.

SD may still be considering their position.

Apparently Mike Ashley has been asked by Northumbria Police Commissioner not to continue sponsoring through SD if Evans is signed.

Hypothetically could they sign the rapists, take Mt Massey's money and then not have him play?

Surely somewhere very deep down, sometimes, Natasha must think 'Dad, don't you think I'm worth more than this?' Or has it just been completely conditioned out of her'

It seems like a seamless move from toxic parent to toxic relationship.

Yes sashh but it leaves the manager (who doesn't wish him there) in a tricky position. No-one in the squad will want him there (esp the forward players) and the manager would need to resist pressure IF Evans gets match fit and is avaialble AND if OA results continue to go badly. From a footie POV he wouldn't have a choice.

I would thought Massey's sponsorship would be a bit of a poisoned chalice. If after a time they decide that Evans is so toxic or so useless that they don't want him any more, the sponsorship will melt away, and the other sponsors won't come back.

Speaking of people who dont know the facts... I actually didnt know til yesterday that he left the hotel via the fire escape. The facts, although not hidden, get mentioned very rarely.

Pithy observation Chunderella - whatever happens, they will become/remembered as 'the club that signed/almost signed Evans'. Just awful for decent OA fans.

Karl massey offering money to OAFC is just beyond bizarre I think the explanations about being overinvested at this point are spot on the man is desperate. The amount of damage he has done to his company/ies is bad enough and yet he continues? His employees must feel very worried I would be if I were one of them.
I really hope the vile website gets shut down ASAP- does anyone know if we could help in anyway ie report it somewhere?
There's also an awful web page where someone has wrote about the victim and given her actually identity (not the the new ones thankfully) and has put pictures from her old twitter account- I won't link it for obvious reason but should I just report it to google or anywhere else?
Thanks

I would report it all to the Attorney General's Office.

I think that when this thread is full (although hopefully there will be a good resolution before then!), the op of thread #3 should have the basic facts (starting with, HE WAS CONVICTED ON HIS AND CLAYTONS TESTIMONY, SHE HAD NO MEMORY OF THE EVENT!!!) in it. Might save a few questions? i doubt it though

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If Karl Massey is so desperate for his little girl to be a WAG why doesn't he put a dowry on her head and have an open viewing for footballers?

It would be cheaper and more dignified.

Im surprised the website hasnt been closed down and ce bought back in re the bullying of the victim (ok not by him but by his family and he hasnt stopped them) The attorney general must know. Something must be in the conditions they let ce out. Ce should have got his supporters to close that website!

Chud hadnt thought of that

Beyond - he was convicted on his testimony, CM's, and that of the victim, the hotel workers and the cab driver.

She did give evidence, as far as I am aware, but she did not give evidence to the effect that she did not consent, because she cannot remember whether she did or not.

Hello Ched (I imagine one of your 'team' is monitoring this thread)

You are already a convicted rapist, had your infidelity and grubby sexual preference exposed for the world to see. You have spent time in prison and are on the sex offenders register.

Just when it seems you can't sink any lower- your FIL is allegedly buying you a place on a crappy football team. Have you any self respect left?

Is football such an important, world shattering career that you will reduce yourself to a mere puppet of your FIL to be in order to pursue it? You know that a decent, self respecting man would never behave the way you have. At one point I might have said 'doesn't Natasha deserve better?' but actually, I think you two deserve each other. A disgraced rapist footballer and a 'Daddy pays for it' WAG. Nice.

It is difficult to get any understanding why on Earth OA would continue on with this plan to wreck their own brand. There is one consolation though, if they do take on RCE they might cause themselves so much mischief that it gives out a clear message that it is simply far too risky for a football club to sign a convicted rapist as a professional footballer. (I just boggle at the concept that there are clubs out there who aren't able to see this.)

CE being signed by OA might have a better outcome than him not and this providing more fuel to the "poor CE, the true victim whose rehabilitation was stopped by a hysterical witchhunt" narrative.

See this BBC article, written by a law professor.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30699017

Email just sent by me to Professor Anderson pasted below.

Professor Anderson

Thank you for your article on the BBC website, which I found interesting.

However, I am intrigued that the list of “similar cases” you cite did not include the very recent example of Ilombe Mboyo (link below). Perhaps you might consider updating the list on the article to include a high profile case of a convicted rapist who was declined a contract by a UK club, purely because of his conviction and having taken the advice of club stakeholders? Note that, unlike Evans, Mboyo was repentant and contrite about the offence of which he had been convicted.

The other cases cited by you (Rix, Hughes, King, McCormick) in your article all resulted in the offender going back to football. Supporters of Ched Evans’ return to professional football often claim that his treatment is “unprecedented”. It would be unfortunate if you added weight to this incorrect view.

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/24064975

"I would report it all to the Attorney General's Office."

As CantBeBotheredThinking posted at Tue 06-Jan-15 22:36:40:

BBC article quoting AG spokesperson confirming an investigation is already underway

Breaking news on dm he been given a contract. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2900150/Rapist-footballer-Ched-Evans-handed-two-half-year-contract-Oldham-Athletic-tomorrow-despite-opposition-sponsors-campaigners.html

Mike Ashley the owner of sports direct is a well known idiot, with a bad reputation. He will not care one bit about the backlash and will probably revel in it.