This is a different point of view from female blogger in the spectator
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2014/12/letting-ched-evans-play-football-would-give-young-offenders-a-much-needed-role-model/
Under the ROA his sentence is spent:
Where in respect of a conviction a person has been sentenced to imprisonment with an order under s. 47(1) of the M1Criminal Law Act 1977, he is to be treated for the purposes of subsection (2) above as having served the sentence as soon as he completes...