Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
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'.
My view would be that neither my football club nor myself should do or say anything until the judicial process was completed. There is a difference between that viewpoint and saying 'Ched Evans is a convicted rapist who should never work in football again'.