Different times Wazza - this was the era when Bill Wyman was shacked up with a 13 year old and rather than call for the death penalty half the tabloids were congratulating him.
Police 'not interested' in Wyman's affair with 13-year-old Mandy Smith, who claims she slept with him when she was 14. Former Rolling Stone Bill Wyman has said that he approached police over widely reported claims he had sex with a minor – and was told that they were not interested. WTF
Shameful really. It'll still be happening no doubt, being swept under the rug so as not to offend those of a certain religion.
I wouldn't expect anyone to turn on their own players, especially in a dire situation like ours. Gazza obviously wasn't reported at the time, probably didn't even kiss this 15 year old lass even with her fathers approval. no case to be heard here imo. pretty sure some fans will have sang when Bramble was in the **** a few years ago. where was the consternation then? did man u fans turn on Giggs when he was caught impregnating his sister in law? (only to be later voted best man u player ever) did arsenal fans turn on RvP when he was accused of rape? it seems these situations are becoming more prevalent in modern football. we, as fans, have to roll with the punches. there's nothing we can do. to support the team is to support the individual. personally i blame the club, specifically Maggie Byrne, for not getting rid of AJ the moment they got a copy of his police interview. it was clear then he would have no choice but to plead guilty. we've been strung along and made to look like a bunch of ***** approving morons when all we've done is support one of our own players until he was proven to be the dickhead he clearly is. trying to shift the focus onto another outdated and frankly questionable accusation (convenently against our biggest rival) isn't going to change that.
It seems that parents them days were a totally different kettle of fish! 'When the scandal first emerged, Mandy was questioned by police but she and her family refused to press charges'
Now she's grown up, she gets it.... Young girls all over the country should read this from Mandy Smith. “If it happened today, he would be absolutely vilified by the press. He’d be in jail. For me, for a long time, it was a grey area. I was under age but I was complicit. “Now I see it in black and white. I work with teenagers, I see how vulnerable they are under all that bravado.”
There are archives uploaded from the 1720's about all sorts of irrelevant and ridiculously boring subjects, yet the media who hang Gazza out to dry every time he steps out of his house, have chosen to protect the guy for some reason? Sorry mate, until I see the facts AJ's a nonce and he's not. Same for Cisse, nothing's proven despite what you say. It's an accusation by a girl (just like Johnson's was when you lot defended him) of a 16 year old kid getting her pregnant, fortunately for him, she's left it too long to come out with this news for the Senegalese authorities to do anything about so it'll never be proven unless he admits it. You can't expect to have 'innocent until proven guilty' on your side, only when it suits you. Cisse is a spitting, pathetic prick and Gazza is a joke of a human being but neither are proven nonces.
I've just searched for my best mates Dad, who was plastered all over the front pages of the sun for a couple of days in 1984. Can't find a thing about it, on here.
I took it as if you were saying convenient, as in, it's convenient because it never happened. It's what I say to people as a sly dig when they can't back something up. So maybe I'm just looking at it to much through my eyes. It was a good point raised by Funky. I can relate to what he's saying as there's other things I can't find on the net, that I know I've seen in the paper.
Well you're entitled to make assumptions pal, but I'm not saying it never happened, I'm saying he's not a nonce until it's proven, just like you all said about Adam Johnson. Without a scrap of evidence about one of the greatest English footballers of all time messing around with a school girl, I am choosing not to condemn the bloke, that's all. The point Bri raised was convenient because it provides an excuse as to why this information is not available on the internet, when in my view, it's a weak point given how much history is backed up and documented online.
