[Albion] Adam Johnson

[Weststander]

With FA safeguarding will find it difficult to sign for a British club. But also unlikely to get a visa abroad.

No doubt he will end up somewhere but will no doubt be some footballing backwater. Or Portsmouth

IF we stay in the EU, will freedom of movement allow him to play anywhere in the EU, if wanted?

 

[GT49er]

IF we stay in the EU, will freedom of movement allow him to play anywhere in the EU, if wanted?

Brexit won't make any difference. He has skills (probably a bit more than he's been credited with on here) as a footballer which will be in demand. If someone in the EU wants to employ him, and he wants to go, it will happen; there might be a few more forms to ill in, but so what.....................

 

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

IF we stay in the EU, will freedom of movement allow him to play anywhere in the EU, if wanted?

Yes, however the fact he's out on licence will mean he's going to have certain restrictions on his movements. This is likely to include having to get permission if he wants to leave the UK for any reason.

 

[Weststander]

Brexit won't make any difference. He has skills (probably a bit more than he's been credited with on here) as a footballer which will be in demand. If someone in the EU wants to employ him, and he wants to go, it will happen; there might be a few more forms to ill in, but so what.....................

Thanks, but I was commenting on the bit where “visas” were mentioned. Would Johnson require a visa if for example he went to play in Sweden or Poland just now?

 

[Surport Local Team]

He is very fortunate that he does not have to work, very well paid played playing football and has amassed a sizeable property empire

 

[BensGrandad]

Perhaps he will buy a football team and make himself player/manager as I see Hednesford Town, who we bought Nobby Horton from, is up for sale. It would depend on how the FA classify 'fit and proper person' would it be financial or moral.

 

[JoeKidd]

Perhaps he will buy a football team and make himself player/manager as I see Hednesford Town, who we bought Nobby Horton from, is up for sale. It would depend on how the FA classify 'fit and proper person' would it be financial or moral.

I thought we signed Horton from Port Vale.

 

[BensGrandad]

I thought we signed Horton from Port Vale.

I think that you are correct as they signed him from Hednesford sorry.

 

[Sheebo]

Age of consent for females and males has been 16 since 1885 (when it was raised from 13 to 16)

Thanks mate - interesting. I literally swear we were told it was different for boys at school but lots of people have said to me since it was the same all along.

 

[pornomagboy]

wouldn't want him walking out with a mascot

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[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Plenty of countries in Europe with medieval age of consent laws where he could ply his trade.

 

[Acker79]

Or he could get a job outside football, and get his football playing fix with a pub team, or five-a-side games with workmates at the local sports centre.

Why are people going to such lengths to find away to get him a football career back? No one has a right to be a footballer.

 

[BensGrandad]

Or he could get a job outside football, and get his football playing fix with a pub team, or five-a-side games with workmates at the local sports centre.

Why are people going to such lengths to find away to get him a football career back? No one has a right to be a footballer.

Because irrespective of peoples views on him and his crime he has a right to earn a living as part of his rehabilitation and playing football is what he is trained for and has always done. The problem comes with finding a suitable employer.

 

[Acker79]

Because irrespective of peoples views on him and his crime he has a right to earn a living as part of his rehabilitation and playing football is what he is trained for and has always done. The problem comes with finding a suitable employer.

So? Again, that doesn't give him a right to specifically earn a living by playing football. If he has to look elsewhere for a job, so be it. He's young enough that he can learn new skills (he may have had the opportunity to do so during his time in prison).

And still, why are a bunch of Brighton fans so interested in working out a way for him to go back to his previous life as if nothing happened?

 

[drew]

Because irrespective of peoples views on him and his crime he has a right to earn a living as part of his rehabilitation and playing football is what he is trained for and has always done. The problem comes with finding a suitable employer.

Sorry but that argument doesn't really hold water. Firstly, he doesn't have a right to earn a living as a footballer. There are plenty of people who trained purely as a footballer and then never made the grade. Also, there are many footballers who have to change careers when their footballing days are behind them. So, if he can find a club that will take him on then fair enough but otherwise he has to do what everyone else in society does when they lose one career.

 

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

Because irrespective of peoples views on him and his crime he has a right to earn a living as part of his rehabilitation and playing football is what he is trained for and has always done. The problem comes with finding a suitable employer.

What a stupid argument, by that logic a teacher who had been convicted of sexual offences should be able to return to the profession as its what they trained for.

 

[BensGrandad]

What a stupid argument, by that logic a teacher who had been convicted of sexual offences should be able to return to the profession as its what they trained for.

Totally different as a teacher will be dealing with a children of some age but he would never need to have contact with children.

I wouldn't want him to be signed by us but if a club is prepared to sign him and accept the s..t they would get so be it.

 

[Wilko]

People liberally throwing the word nonce and paedo about on here need to look up the definition of that word. As Martin Samuel pointed out on Sunday supplement this morning, a Paedophile is a person attracted to pre-pubescent children, not a 15 year old who could pass for a few years older.

This is non condoning what he did, he is a sex offender and any club would be mad to give him a chance. He deserved his time in the slammer but let'e be a bit careful with the language being banded around FFS.

 

[Acker79]

Totally different as a teacher will be dealing with a children of some age but he would never need to have contact with children.

I wouldn't want him to be signed by us but if a club is prepared to sign him and accept the s..t they would get so be it.

Thank god no 15 year olds are interested in football, eh? Carry on, Adam!

 

[Weststander]

People liberally throwing the word nonce and paedo about on here need to look up the definition of that word. As Martin Samuel pointed out on Sunday supplement this morning, a Paedophile is a person attracted to pre-pubescent children, not a 15 year old who could pass for a few years older.

This is non condoning what he did, he is a sex offender and any club would be mad to give him a chance. He deserved his time in the slammer but let'e be a bit careful with the language being banded around FFS.

Martin Samuel 'writes' for a nasty little rag, so we can discount his opinion.

The Sexual Offences Act 2003 does not define paedophilia as such. But it does define victims in the age bracket 13 to 15, as being children.