http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/pfa-chief-gordon-taylor-under-4944907 Comparing Evans's case to Hillsborough? Surely he must go now!
C.U.T.N. (misspelled)... The PFA is a joke, the Premier League is an F-ing joke, the football league is a bad joke & Ched needs to find a trade that isn't football.
here is the BBC report of what the ****** said http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/30737640 I seriously cannot get my head around this blokes reasoning... he should now offer his resignation... and if not then his peers should kick him out. He is perhaps one of the greatest world class Assholes ever... I am quite high on that list... but he flies way higher than I could ever achieve.
I think he's a complete tool so if this gets shut of him then good. No doubt he'll cling to power and just let the storm blow over.
I'm ambivalent to Taylor but, Christ, give the bloke a chance. He's looking after the interests of one of his members. All he said was the police get it wrong sometimes and, presumably trying to keep his example football related, referred to the Hillsborough travesty of justice. In retrospect not the best example he could have chosen but it didn't upset me. It certainly brought out the umbrage seekers though.
The guy is a bit of a tail but he's not actually said that much wrong as he? He's not laughed or sneered at the disaster he's not blamed the Liverpool fans....... A think what he was getting at is that like hillsborough wrongful accusations were made and he's obviously tried to blend this in with his views on the Evans case. The reaction of some people on here and the media is staggering at times!!!............obviously my opinion!
He's been on TalkSport this morning apologising that his comments were taken out of context. What he meant was that the media frenzy surrounding this Ched Evans story was very similar to that of Hillsborough, that is all. I haven't read the original article, but we all know what the tabloids are like.
trouble with Taylor is he's one of the guys that only has to open his gob and you know he's annoying and to be fair he has talked an awful load of ***** over the years
Taylor generally annoys the bejesus outta me and they should have ditched him from the PFA years ago. Not heard these comments in context so don't know if they are offensive or not bit his very existence is certainly offensive.
I'm not sure he does compare the two incidents. Actually, I don't think he does at all. Let me be clear before I start with this, I don't particularly like Gordon Taylor and I certainly don't like his stance on this either, however... He's not comparing the two incidents, he's arguing that the verdict reached in the Ched Evans case could well be wrong. He uses the Hillsborough case as the greatest example in the sphere football of where the judiciary got it completely wrong. He's not comparing the events, but the outcomes. There is an issue here, and it's a massive one, but it's not what everyone is talking about. It used to be that when someone was convicted of a crime it was accepted they had done it and everyone acted accordingly. For reasons that I can't even begin to fathom, in the case of Ched Evans people openly talk about the conviction being unsafe and act as though he's innocent. It's bizarre. The chief exec of the PFA shouldn't be on the radio talking as though Ched Evans is innocent. He should accept the verdict of the courts and be telling us how his organisation can help rehabilitate one of his members who has been convicted of a serious crime. The PFA should help Ched Evans, but not by pretending he didn't do it. There' nothing wrong with Gordon Taylor highlighting the miscarriage of justice that took place after the Hilsborough disaster, he should do it at every opportunity as far as I'm concerned, but there'e everything wrong with him assuming that Ched Evans is not guilty when he has already been convicted. I had a friend who was a criminal solicitor, if that's the right term. He reckoned that 99%+ of his clients were guilty. His job consisted of trying to keep them out of prison and pay as small a fine as possible. The few clients he had that were innocent he went to town on the case. He reckoned he kept thousands of guilty people out of prison, but no innocent person he ever represented was found guilty. There are miscarriages of justice of course, but they're few and far between. Prisons aren't full of innocent people wrongly convicted, they're full of people who did it. Because the judiciary occasionally get it wrong does not mean Ched Evans is innocent. Such an argument is, well, it's no argument at all. There's nothing wrong with it on an internet forum I suppose, but there's something very wrong with the chief exec of the PFA using it.
I'm not basing my decison on what he said about Hillsborough, I genuinely don't think he meant any offence in what he said. I just think the guy is a tool generally, way past his sell by date, a hypocrite and somebody that can rub people up the wrong way with what he says which is often complete ballax. I hate listening to his interviews, I find him to be smug, dismissive, an at time just bloody rude to reporters so if this brings his tenure to an end then I won't be losing any sleep.