I honestly wouldn't like to say without having been in court for both trials - which is sort of the point.
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Would it not make more sense if we all stopped judging others, generally on the basis of very little direct knowledge, stopped hurling insults and abuse at each other, accepted that lives, actions and events may be complex and compromised, and occasionally checked our own eye beams/motes/whatevers?
My issue isn't with the football clubs, it's with the people who felt it sensible to protest publicly against him while he was in the process of appealing his conviction. And, personally, I would only consider someone to be truly convicted of anything once the judicial process was fully complete.
And, as we know, in this case it was not. It's not unreasonable to expect the muppets to have considered this.
So let's say it's another offence - kiddie-fiddling or child porn, maybe. If your club were threatening to sign someone convicted of it, would you be perfectly happy for them to do so on the basis that he was appealing his conviction and had been punished enough?
Of course not - and neither would the thousands of knuckle-draggers who've been shouting his case all this time. He'd be untouchable. And that's the problem: there's a double standard in operation because it was 'just' rape and she was 'just a slag'.