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OK, a good job done by the club once it got to know ALL of the facts. A fair wedge in wages released and we still have two loan spots to fill. In the cold hard world lets hope they make it work for us.

Who knows, we might sign a saviour!
 
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Well I am pleased this is all over, I have resisted posting on this subject while the case has been ongoing, but I have to say that we have all been let down. The fact that the club have acted today makes it clear that dis pit some comments from visitors to this board he has lied to the club all along sticking to his not guilty plea until the court yesterday.

We move on he is no longer a professional footballer and no longer anything to do with the club. I do hope that we can sue him for damages as he should not be able to live well of his earnings after he gets out.
Completely agree, I too have not commented on this issue, Johnson never attained the heights we all expected from him, probably due to the fact he liked too many beers, it is ironic that in his last game he,scored a good goal, what a pity he couldn't do it on a regular basis, a very silly young man and the,club have taken the only step left open to them, we move on.
 
Wonder if they'll go after him for damages? Lost transfer fee/Reputational damage to the club. They were clearly as surprised as us with the guilty plea.

I hope so, we gave him a lot he should pay that back at least part
 
Wonder if they'll go after him for damages? Lost transfer fee/Reputational damage to the club. They were clearly as surprised as us with the guilty plea.
Reputational damage :emoticon-0114-dull:

I don't think that he's damaged anybody's reputation but his own :emoticon-0112-wonde

The club has only done what we have . . . . believed his deception :emoticon-0101-sadsm . . . . as soon as they found out the truth they've acted appropriately, which is exactly as they should :emoticon-0148-yes:

I don't feel that our reputations have been damaged in any way :emoticon-0145-shake

Onwards and, hopefully, upwards
<cheers>
 
Gone and best forgotten, unlike a few others recently shown the door, this looser could have been a great success, with the talent he undoubtably possesed but rarely utilised. What a fool, he really is to be pitied.
 
Gone and best forgotten, unlike a few others recently shown the door, this looser could have been a great success, with the talent he undoubtably possesed but rarely utilised. What a fool, he really is to be pitied.

But god forbid we mention the possible outcomes surrounding the subject a few days before the trial, in stupid threads. <laugh>
 
What a prick. He lied to everyone and continued to pick up a fortune knowing exactly what he had done. I am pretty sure that the club can sue him under the tort of deception.
 
What a prick. He lied to everyone and continued to pick up a fortune knowing exactly what he had done. I am pretty sure that the club can sue him under the tort of deception.

I'm not sure the club will be able to reclaim any losses/costs/wages down to him maintaining his innocence because of the right not to incriminate yourself. Suspect this could be an issue for lawyers to get rich rather than anyone else getting any compensation.
 
I'm not sure the club will be able to reclaim any losses/costs/wages down to him maintaining his innocence because of the right not to incriminate yourself. Suspect this could be an issue for lawyers to get rich rather than anyone else getting any compensation.

Shame. He deserves to get taken to the cleaners. No doubt he will.
 
I'm not sure the club will be able to reclaim any losses/costs/wages down to him maintaining his innocence because of the right not to incriminate yourself. Suspect this could be an issue for lawyers to get rich rather than anyone else getting any compensation.
The interesting one is if the club did know. Can you sack someone you know is guilty when there is pending legal action but they haven't been to trial?
 
It was inevitable and the club should be commended for acting so swiftly...It is hard to see any circumstances where he can play football in this country again..
 
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The interesting one is if the club did know. Can you sack someone you know is guilty when there is pending legal action but they haven't been to trial?

I hope they didn't know. It would open a can of worms. You might not be able to sack someone, but there is no obligation to pick them. Even if they did it because they felt they had to treat him the same as they would if they didn't know it would open the club up to some serious abuse.

I don't think they could know though. If he had told the club he was guilty then the club would be obligated to report it. I don't think confidentiality applies where the safeguarding of children is concerned.
 
Makes me sick to the stomach, knowing full well he was guilty all along.

He's mugged the club off, the players, the backroom staff, but worst of all he's mugged each and every one of us fans off.

Hope he rots in prison.

He's tarnished Sunderland AFC, the club I love, for a long long time.[/QUOTE]

he has tarnished himself, but I don't see how this tarnishes the club..