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This thread's resurrection is a mix of :lolol: and :facepalm: As soon as I saw it was back my first instinct was to guess who raised it from the dead. You'll be glad to know I got it right.

Why did this guy have the twitter handle bhafc6? http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/jan/15/ched-evans-friend-victim

The website has been passed to the CPS to see if it unlawfully identifies the victim and to the police for possible contempt of court. https://twitter.com/david_conn/status/556071871352168448

Beacuse McDonald can reasonably assume consent from his interactions with the victim. The shared cab ride, the "don't leave me" etc... Evans recieves a text saying "I've got a bird." and then goes and has sex with someone he's never met before, very different circumstances. She said that it was...

Greg Dyke "I would encourage the game to consider and discuss this matter and the prospect for future guidelines or codes of conduct. The FA will certainly be considering it in line with our own ongoing review of what constitutes public or private communications and behaviour."...

Yeah I might have got the wrong end of the stick. I'll have a root around again, see what I can find. EDIT - Did definitely get the wrong end of the stick.

See above.

I may be wrong but I don't think that's true. Wasn't the victim known to McDonald in advance of the night? EDIT - Nope My mistake.

But not in the case of McDonald. I think that is very important when you consider this case.

Which is your perogative. I was just explaining why it is inherently believable that McDonald was not guilty of rape, whilst Evans was from the jury's perspective.

That's not true. The reason that McDonald could reasonably believe that he had consent is that he had a prior relationship (non-sexual) with the girl and she went willingly with him to the room. Even though she was intoxicated the jury believed that McDonald could reasonably assume consent. I am...

Yup. But there's also a half way house. His behaviour demonstrated a disgusting attitude towards women (which I'd imagine is prevalent in football.) If he were correctly advised he would have made some statement on contrition surrounding this on his release and also apologised for the behaviour...

Anyone watch with Julia Hartley-Brewer making a horrible pigs ear of this subject on Question Time last night? She said that she had read extensively on the case and didn't see how one man could be found guilty and the other aquitted, which anyone with even a cursory knowledge of the chronology...

Unbelievable.

Bloody good article from Paul Hayward in the Telegraph here. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/oldham-athletic/11333205/Ched-Evans-affair-shamed-football-myopic-PFA-mute-FA-and-idiotic-clubs-all-disgraced-themselves.html

There are people on this thread, including me who have said from the start he could have released a statement similar to the one he released today. Clearly I'm no legal expert but today's statement would have gone through his lawyers. He should have been saying more of this back when he was...

I would suggest this has come far too late to satisfy many of his critics of its sincerity. Also, that website needs to come down. I really do think he'd be best served letting this go until the appeal is heard/ not heard. Do some community work in the meantime (so long as the conditions of his...

Come on, Wales doesn't count does it?

I actually agree with you here BG. If a club really wants him, they need to present it as a fait accompli and hang the consequences. Oldham have totally ****ed themselves over on this one. They've made themselves look cynical and desperate, lost sponsors and didn't even get the player.

Did you know in the whole of this thread you are the first person to use the "it's not fair"defence. The "crime top trumps" defence. You've convinced me. I want him in at the Albion because he's "no worse than Marlon King." Who's with me?