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Late shout to add Graeme Souness and Kevin Muscat to my squad.

I cannot see why people are getting so worked up about this. We played poorly against a team that is better than us in the first place and had one of the League's best players in outstanding form to top it all off. There's nothing more to it than that.

I can do without all the bullshit being thrown around by those arseholes though. It's like Debuchy is the first player ever to be injured as the result of an innocuous challenge or something.

To be fair to SS, it must be refreshing for him not to be the most offensive person on the thread.

Talk about missing the point. Get some perspective.

I note you're a believer in the patriarchy and rape culture. At what age should we start teaching boys they are all natural, violent rapists and so the law just needs a chance to catch them out so there's no need for trials and evidence? At what age should we be teaching the girls the same thing? When should we introduce the idea that you don't need to actually have to have sex to rape a girl? Their words are enough.

You've even just done that here. 'I don't like what you're saying so that makes you a rapist'. Care to single anybody out before you get some advice on libel?

Last time the world saw this sort of thinking it was applied to the rape of white women by black men and gave the KKK their excuse for a lynching. And looking at Jean Hatchet and the reaction of her online mob you can see the same thinking and for the same reasons.

Nick

The point you and others are missing is that this is no longer about Ched Evans. The woman who is driving the online campaign and starting the petitions has even said it herself. This is about cementing the idea of 'rape culture' and overturning the law. The world she wants is one in which you will by definition as a man be a rapist, you can be convicted on the say-so of one person and there is no need for evidence or even a proper trial, indeed you may not even need to be accused of physical rape - merely 'oppressing' a woman will count and the forms of oppression might include using unapproved language, and once you are released from prison the real problems start.

It's the road to hell and we need to take another one. It bothers me enormously that we have men and politicians going along with this bullshit. Now that we have politicians controlling the police, we even have that to consider.

Ched Evans is a convicted rapist but he's also a free man. The law says he is free to work if somebody will employ him and we need to stand by that. The alternative is that we descend into mob rule. You can pick either of the two mobs in this case to see what that will look like. Morons on one side threatening the victim and bigots on the other using it to make their case for more bigotry.

If you don't believe this is where we are headed, go read something by or watch an interview with rational feminists like Karen Straughan or Erin Pizzey (who was the first person to set up a shelter for abused women). However distasteful it is to uphold the rights of Ched Evans, we are on dodgy ground if we don't.

Can I suggest you do. Women and men with the same qualifications, in the same jobs and with the same career paths earn largely the same. In fact it's only when women take career breaks for maternity that their pay falls behind men. Up to that point many of them earn more.

www.consad.com/content/reports/Gender%20Wage%20Gap%20Final%20Report.pdf

www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/cut-the-crap-about-the-gender-pay-gap/15484#.VKxYqyusUgR

Has the victim given Jean Hatchet the role of her official spokesperson and asked her to make her the figurehead of the rape culture movement then?

He should move to the Mainly Nationalist Garvaghy Road in Portadown.

The question is who thought the likes of Kitson, Soares, Woodgate and Palacios were bad signings when we made them? Very few, I bet and it's easy to be wise looking back.

There you go again. Backing the mob rather than the law.

What I love most about all of this is that people like you are seriously arguing he should go work as a painter and decorator rather than a footballer. Now let's see. Would I rather a convicted rapist was at home with my daughter, or out on a pitch in front of 20,000 people while she's somewhere else because she's never been to Bramall Lane in her life and not likely to be?

I love the idea that footballers are role models by the way. I bet we could all roll off a list of respected footballers I would tell my kids are complete cocks. John Terry, Steve Gerrard and Luke McCormick are captains of their respective clubs. Would I want my kids to be drunk drivers, brawlers, child killers, thieves, shaggers and arseholes? No. How about Joey Barton? Lee Hughes? Jermaine Pennant? Nile Ranger? All still getting paid, not role models or anything like it. Just wankers who happen to play football.

Meanwhile, the mob gets its way. We can all do away with laws and our rights and the possibility of redemption and just leave it to those who can muster the biggest and most aggressive petitions and Twitter campaigns. People aren't free to earn a living, employers aren't free to employ who they like, and meanwhile we bow down to feminist fascists who want to create a world in which all men are rapists just waiting to be caught out, slammed in prison on no more than the say so of a woman and released into a world which wants them dead.

And has anybody asked the girl what she wants? We know she doesn't want thugs driving her away from home but does she want her name co-opted by people with an agenda? I'd assume she just wants the shit storm to go away.

Yeah. Leaving justice and human rights to "the majority". What's the worst that could happen?

This is no longer about Ched Evans. It's about an agenda to cement the idea that we live in a 'rape culture'. All of these petitions and protests online are being created by radical feminists. There would have been less fuss if Evans had walked up to that girl in the street and beat her to death because that would not have served this agenda.

The person we should all feel sorry for in this is the girl. Not only does she have morons hounding and abusing her, forcing her to move house and go into hiding repeatedly, she now has another online and media mob who won't stop using her as an excuse until Evans has hung himself, because this mob want men to lose the right to a fair trial and, even if convicted, want them dead after they've served their time.

Seeing as his defence is 'I'm not a rapist, I'm the sort of scumbag who turfs up uninvited to follow my mate in shagging pissed-up. semi-conscious girls in cheap hotel rooms we've booked in advance just for that purpose', I guess the answer would be yes.