England player arrested

CantGetNoSleep

According to several UK papers, an England international has been arrested for having sex with a 14 year old. Guess we cannot debate as to who it is?

Beasty

CantGetNoSleep wrote: »

Guess we cannot debate as to who it is?

Not until there is some confirmation. Speculation on such stuff is against site rules

Alfred Borden

Fairly certain who it is now

CantGetNoSleep

Raf32 wrote: »

Fairly certain who it is now

PM?

BMMachine

John Terry had sex with Luis Suarez 13 years ago and its all coming out now. This is it boys, the football apocalypse.

Beasty

Anyone can do a Web search and draw their own conclusions. Just don't post such conclusions here.

Soups123

Its amazing how rumours spread and how quickly it changes, the newspaper reporting it says a 15 year old and by the first post here she is now 14 :pac::pac:

Alfred Borden

confirmed by the sun who it is

DDC1990

What is accaptable to post and not.

The age and location of the arrested man is available on twitter, after being confirmed by police.

It does pretty much narrow it down to 1 person though, from what I can tell.

EDIT: I see your post now Beasty. Understood.

blueser

Apparently, the ref is certain it's someone else!

ssshhh123

A player was also found witg loaded gun.

monkey9

It's easy to work out who it is going by clues on Twitter.

Corholio

Is that supposed text from the player that's floating around from the article too? Can't read it cos it's behind a paywall.

blueser

The Beeb's Dan Roan has stuck his head above the parapet on Twitter and has named the player. If you've seen all the gossip on there, you won't be surprised who he's named. Sky Sports and Sky News also naming him as well now.

Muff_Daddy

BMMachine wrote: »

John Terry had sex with Luis Suarez 13 years ago and its all coming out now. This is it boys, the football apocalypse.

This has to be the worst attempt of humour I have ever come accross.

poppers

Sky news have named the player.

monkey9

Breaking news on Sky now that it's Adam Johnson.

secman

BBC have named the player Adam Johnson as having been arrested for this alleged offense

marno21

monkey9 wrote: »

Breaking news on Sky now that it's Adam Johnson.

Perhaps it was John O'Shea and Roger East was the arresting officer

secman

BBC have named the player Adam Johnson as having been arrested for this alleged offense

djburchgrove

Can't be Adam Johnson, he's gay with Stewart Downing.

Paully D

monkey9 wrote: »

Breaking news on Sky now that it's Adam Johnson.

And Wes Brown has been arrested.

dilallio

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2975953/Adam-Johnson-arrested-suspicion-having-sex-15-year-old-girl.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

CantGetNoSleep

dilallio wrote: »

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2975953/Adam-Johnson-arrested-suspicion-having-sex-15-year-old-girl.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

Daily Mail is always great for a bit of speculation when anything like this happens (plus an exact valuation of the person's home - they must employ an auctioneer)

Mr Blobby

Even if innocent Adam Johnson is never, ever going to hear the end of this.

Alfred Borden

Suspended by Sunderland now

http://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/other-soccer/adam-johnson-suspended-by-sunderland-in-underage-sex-investigation-31034376.html

Corholio

Not that I condone this sort of behaviour, and by behaviour I mean editing Wikipedia articles for your own enjoyment, this was Adam Johnsons a while ago (before being changed)....

('National team' section)

Raf32

Raf32 wrote: »

Suspended by Sunderland now

http://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/other-soccer/adam-johnson-suspended-by-sunderland-in-underage-sex-investigation-31034376.html

Seems fair enough.

Sunderland deserve credit.

Would that more clubs acted so quickly and decisively.

Oat23

Mr Blobby wrote: »

Even if innocent Adam Johnson is never, ever going to hear the end of this.

With the way the police over there have handled things recently when it comes to sex scandals it wouldn't surprise me at all if he's innocent and some kid has just made an allegation against him. The police have acted on nothing but the word of a kid in the past.

This did make me laugh though.

Alfred Borden

Deleted User wrote: »

Seems fair enough.

Sunderland deserve credit.

Would that more clubs acted so quickly and decisively.

Yup credit where its due. Hard way back for him even if innocent now though.

Manutd_4life

Corholio wrote: »

Not that I condone this sort of behaviour, and by behaviour I mean editing Wikipedia articles for your own enjoyment, this was Adam Johnsons a while ago (before being changed)....

('National team' section)

good banter mate

John Cherry

Raf32 wrote: »

Suspended by Sunderland now

http://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/other-soccer/adam-johnson-suspended-by-sunderland-in-underage-sex-investigation-31034376.html

The player has appeared for England and plays for a Premier League club according to the newspaper.

Who the hell writes a article and leaves that has there last sentence. They have written themselves at the start which club he was playing for. Pure lazy journalism.

LuckyLloyd

No guarantees he's guilty of anything as of yet obv. Presumption of innocence imo.

Moneymaker

Least the good news is he probably can't score against us in the derby for the millionth time.

kryogen

If he is innocent, and he must be afforded the benefit of the doubt at the moment of course this is one hell of a nightmare for him that is going to follow him for a long time even if he is cleared. How has he ended up in this position is what I am interested in, working on the presumption he is not guilty of course. I would be clear enough on how he ended up in this position if he is guilty!

jaykay74

I find the lack of anonymity for a currently innocent man appalling.

extra gravy

Deleted User wrote: »

Seems fair enough.

Sunderland deserve credit.

Would that more clubs acted so quickly and decisively.

Don't see how it's fair at all. He hasn't been found guilty of anything yet, it's a pity the club haven't the balls to stand by him until then.

kryogen

jaykay74 wrote: »

I find the lack of anonymity for a currently innocent man appalling.

Times we live in

kryogen

extra gravy wrote: »

Don't see how it's fair at all. He hasn't been found guilty of anything yet, it's a pity the club haven't the balls to stand by him until then.

Doesn't matter, the suspension is fair. They haven't sacked him or anything.

When Aaron Hernandez was arrested last year, before the organisation even knew what the charge was his contract was terminated for simply bringing disrepute on the team.

A suspension pending investigation from your job while under investigation for a sex crime is fair enough tbh.

hoodwinked

extra gravy wrote: »

Don't see how it's fair at all. He hasn't been found guilty of anything yet, it's a pity the club haven't the balls to stand by him until then.

In the uk i think this is standard for public figures, the same thing happened with the two coronation street actors when they were accused, when they were found not guilty they returned to work.

extra gravy

extra gravy wrote: »

Don't see how it's fair at all. He hasn't been found guilty of anything yet, it's a pity the club haven't the balls to stand by him until then.

I am fully aware he has not been found guilty.

But in many jobs he would be suspended, on full pay of course, once an allegation this serious was made. It's about time football clubs considered doing likewise, instead of standing by players during investigations and, in some famous cases even after adverse findings are made. Why? Not because they have any courage at all, but because the Terry's and Suarez's were valuable players and they put that above all else.

extra gravy

I just think it's harsh that's all. It's very easy to make an allegation but not so easy to shake off the stain of that allegation even if it's proven to be false.

Timmyctc

People making a big deal about the gun but apparently he owns a licence for it.

jaykay74

jaykay74 wrote: »

I find the lack of anonymity for a currently innocent man appalling.

I agree, I've never understood this. Regardless of the outcome, his life/career will now forever be tarnished

ctrl-alt-delete

jaykay74 wrote: »

I find the lack of anonymity for a currently innocent man appalling.

I know there was a politician in the UK campaigning for anonymity for both parties in such cases. As at the moment the alleged victims are the only ones who can't be named.

Something along those lines anyway.

Dozen Wicked Words

ctrl-alt-delete wrote: »

I know there was a politician in the UK campaigning for anonymity for both parties in such cases. As at the moment the alleged victims are the only ones who can't be named.

Something along those lines anyway.

Yep, Nigel Evans, former deputy speaker of the UK parliament, who was cleared of raping a man, is campaigning

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/nigel-evans-calls-for-anonymity-for-rape-suspects-9257824.html

recylingbin

**** sake.
My fantasy team is in tatters.
Can't keep a clean sheet
Can't defemd - can't defemd - injured - injured - ivanovic
Injured - plays for Man Utd - hazard - Henderson - soon to be jailed
Agueri - Costa - philanderer

Paully D

extra gravy wrote: »

Don't see how it's fair at all. He hasn't been found guilty of anything yet, it's a pity the club haven't the balls to stand by him until then.

They're damned if they do and damned if they don't really, but one thing is for sure: the club will likely have a lot more information than anyone else does regarding this situation.

I don't know whether this is the case or not, but maybe based on the information the club have, they think that this will go south for Johnson and from a PR standpoint want to be seeing to be "doing the right thing".

keeponhurling

Who released his name , was it the police ?
Or some journalist putting two and two together ?

764dak

I was Googling and I read too fast. I thought I saw a link that said Sunderland swinger but it was actually Sunderland winger.

764dak

He is innocent until proven guilty.