Referring to convicted sex offender Adam Johnson possible return to top class football, Sky Sport's Gordon Strachan, asked this.
/// 'If he goes on to the pitch and people start calling him names, have we got to do the same as it is to the racist situation? Is it all right to call him names now after doing his three years - have we got to allow that to happen?' ///
I may be proven wrong but the chances of AJ making a comeback to 'top class' football are extremely small. Nothing to stop it being a topic for discussion on SKY but broaching the subject at all was inviting trouble and embarrassment all round. Strachan is a victim of circumstances.He gave a valid view which revolves around abuse in general towards a player(s)...
A remarkably thoughtless comment about something which is highly unlikely ever to happen - what football team will sign Johnson now, especially in the UK?
And Strachan is not the only football pundit whose career was cut short in a similar way - Rodney Marsh, Andy Gray, Richard Keys et al.
Noooooo! It’s not what he asked. Your interpretation might be what he meant to ask. But what he actually asked was the ridiculous question of whether we should let it (allow) happen. We don’t allow racial abuse, so we shouldn’t allow any other kind.
We shouldn't allow any kind of abuse... but to correlate being called names as a sex offender or being called names for being black... is crass and dense, to say the least.
Private is hardly the point Jim. The issue is still a call to sack someone stating a fact. Much worse, surely, than facing the sack for asking a question or stating an opinion.
I looked it up, out of interest, and didn't know this...
//Pedophilia is not a legal term, and having a sexual attraction to children is not illegal. In law enforcement circles, the term pedophile is sometimes used informally to refer to any person who commits one or more sexually-based crimes that relate to legally underage victims.//
So I guess he could actually be called that.
I know, ag, I have already said that abuse is not acceptable. The comparison with black people is odious though. And I also believed "paedophilia" only concerned prepubescent children... but was obviously wrong. I was responding to some other posts too.
It's revolting, sp. To answer the question... it's entertainment and anything which loses them money will get people sacked. The great thing about social media is that people can be far more famous and get better pay for it because they are so much more well-known.
The flipside, is that if you act like a pillock, people find that out too....
Strachan gets sack for asking a valid question, yet Jamie Carragher is caught on film spitting at a young fan and is allowed to stay, is this double standards by SKY?
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