Like I said Durham or slog cricket fair enough. But allowing someone who is caught on camera taking the piss out of homosexuals is totally different when it comes to representing your country.
Like Red CB has said, i'd suggest waiting til you've seen the entire evidence before making your mind up.
If he found not guilty he should be able to play for England what ever , we have all done & said daft things when kettled & I am not condoning it,but if taking the moral high ground when making selections for representative sides is the criteria, then England would be struggling to get a side out in any sport , there are plenty of skeletons in the cupboards
Well they all got it wrong as far as one of the three who was charged is concerned, given that the Judge told them to drop the prosecution against him after a day or two. Anyway, sorry for expressing an opinion. I Won't bother doing so with you again.
, They probably charged the acquitted bloke to get his evidence submitted in Court , it happens a lot in Court even in serious offences like murder As for Nudges comments ,if you were out and about in tarn in the 70's it was quite hard not to get embroiled in a fight at some point during that time , Nudge was probably about !!
Not sure that the acquitted bloke had even given evidence. Anyway I only remember tarn from the early eighties. Nudge was probably doing porridge by then.
What happens, when the evidence is thin, is that defence counsel makes a submission of no case to answer, arguing that there is insufficient evidence upon which a jury could properly (so that they are sure) find the defendant guilty. In this case the judge agreed and withdrew the case from the jury. As this happens at the close of the Crown’s case the jury will have not heard from the defendant had it been his intention to give evidence as part of his own case. They would have heard what, if anything, he said in his in his police interviews, but given that they are not on oath nor given in the presence of the co-accused anything he may have said is not evidence against them and the jury will be so directed.
Come on Mateo, is there any red blooded member of this forum that can seriously say they haven’t woken up in the gutter one morning, with the jizz of a transsexual seeping from their bum hole and having committed sodomy to a farmyard animal, having committed a couple of violent murders after one too many pints of John Smiths? If so I don’t know what sort of yoof you’ve had.
See what we were on about when we said to wait until all the evidence has been heard??! Ali has hit one of the gay guys with a bottle...
My post that you quoted I mentioned him being caught on camera doing stereotypical gay mannerisms, thus being a bit homophobic towards homosexuals. That should make it difficult for him to represent his country again, whatever happens with the rest of it. It's no wonder football players don't come out in public, when their fellow sporting professionals seem to have negative feelings towards them.
I don't get your logic... so he's ok to play county cricket but England is a big no? Why is it ok for him to play county? Regarding the two gay guys, it may have been pisstaking going both ways. You are only going by what you see in the video- there is no context of what is being said. I'll reserve judgment until the case has ended.
Ahh the good old days. When people called a spade a spade. And proceeding to bludgeon someone to death with said spade on a night out with the lads. What's happened to our country.
Found not guilty of affray, not even charged with anything more than that. There will still be some that have concluded he’s guilty of much worse than what he’s just been acquitted of. Found not guilty - unanimously - by a jury of peers who have assessed all the submitted evidence is plenty enough for me to accept that the opinions of those who made such conclusions based solely on a leaked video online were flawed. Get him back in the side when he’s ready, England. No big rush.
Surprised at that. It seems from the cctv that he goes after the bloke and sparks him out for no justifiable reason
