Millwall must have noticed that he ran off the pitch every time hwe heard the ref blow up..
Sorry the fuzz don't use whistles now, do they? Showing my age again.
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Bradford City striker facing LIFE SENTENCE
- Thread starter El Presidente
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Millwall must have noticed that he ran off the pitch every time hwe heard the ref blow up..
Sorry the fuzz don't use whistles now, do they? Showing my age again.
eastlondonseagull
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Biog, here, is still on the Bradford site, though fans on their message board are indignant that he is no longer their player...
Bradford City | Team | Profiles | Gavin Grant
Bradford City | Team | Profiles | Gavin Grant
There's only one person MAN ENOUGH to interview him
Tooled Up......Maintaining Respect.....Nothing to do with Civilians.....Geezer......Do it again and it's a CHINESE BURN etc
Also expect a HAND WRINGING comment from Graham Taylor about......football family must stick together........PFA commitment to all it's members.....lesbian lavatory lust..........pressure on players today......short career so you need a back up trade etc
Is this Danny Dyer? "Viz" magazine did a wicked lampoon of him in the last - not current - issue.
I bet the prison team will be DELIGHTED to have him...as long as he doesn't kneecap the oppo.
keaton
Big heart, hot blood and balls. Big balls
- Nov 18, 2004
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You've still not really answered his question though have you?
No he hasn't. Although he's made his position pretty clear previously.
He'd happily sign Lee McCormick, Lee Hughes, Marlon King, Joey Barton [AND his brother], plus this guy, so long as they all played well, as stuff off the pitch 'is irrelevant'.
Whitterz
Mmmmm? Marvellous
Footballer jailed 25 years
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-10760139
A professional footballer who shot dead a man on a north-west London housing estate has been jailed for life.
Former striker Gavin Grant was found guilty at the Old Bailey on Friday of murdering Leon Labastide, 21, on Harlesden's Stonebridge Park Estate.
His killing in 2004 was part of a series of "tit-for-tat" shootings, the Old Bailey heard.
Grant, 26, who played for Millwall, Wycombe Wanderers and Bradford City, must serve at least 25 years.
Gareth Downie, 25, and Damian Williams, 32, were also jailed for life and given 25-year minimum terms over the killing.
Victim 'executed'
Downie, from Markby Road, Birmingham, was found guilty of Mr Labastide's murder and Williams, from Tower Bridge Road in Southwark, was convicted of conspiring to murder him.
Sentencing the men the Recorder of London, Judge Peter Beaumont, said Mr Labastide "was executed by shooting".
Leon Labastide's mother said he was shot by so-called friends In 2007 Grant, from Kenton, north London, was cleared of killing Jahmall Moore, 22, who was shot two years earlier.
But he was charged with Mr Labastide's murder when new witnesses came forward.
Speaking for Grant - who was playing for Bradford as recently as May - Nigel Rumfitt QC said: "Whatever he did in the past, he had turned his life around by the time it [the murder case] was resurrected."
During the trial jurors heard trouble flared after a burglary in which three women were terrorised and it was suspected that £20,000 in drug money was taken.
'Senseless killing'
A 16-year-old girl, who had been in the house, gave evidence under an assumed name.
Mr Labastide was rumoured to have been behind the burglary and Williams arranged for Grant and Downie to shoot him, the court was told.
In a series of shootings that followed Mr Moore was shot by Roberto Parchment in a case of mistaken identity.
Gareth Downie (L) and Damian Williams were also given life sentences at the Old Bailey Parchment, 24, who was originally convicted of Mr Moore's murder, was found guilty again following a retrial in December as a result of information provided by "supergrass" Darren Mathurin.
Speaking after Grant's conviction last week, Det Insp Steve Horsley said: "Gavin Grant thought he had got away with murder.
"He carried on his footballing career while, all along, he had blood on his hands."
In a statement Mr Labastide's mother, Diane Havill, said: "Leon was a keen footballer who shared his passion for the game with all who knew him. He loved life.
"His senseless killing by so-called friends who grew up with him has left it hard for me to understand the futility of snatching Leon's future whilst, in the same breath, destroying their own."
Grant also played for Gillingham, Stevenage, Tooting and Grays during his football career.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-10760139
A professional footballer who shot dead a man on a north-west London housing estate has been jailed for life.
Former striker Gavin Grant was found guilty at the Old Bailey on Friday of murdering Leon Labastide, 21, on Harlesden's Stonebridge Park Estate.
His killing in 2004 was part of a series of "tit-for-tat" shootings, the Old Bailey heard.
Grant, 26, who played for Millwall, Wycombe Wanderers and Bradford City, must serve at least 25 years.
Gareth Downie, 25, and Damian Williams, 32, were also jailed for life and given 25-year minimum terms over the killing.
Victim 'executed'
Downie, from Markby Road, Birmingham, was found guilty of Mr Labastide's murder and Williams, from Tower Bridge Road in Southwark, was convicted of conspiring to murder him.
Sentencing the men the Recorder of London, Judge Peter Beaumont, said Mr Labastide "was executed by shooting".
Leon Labastide's mother said he was shot by so-called friends In 2007 Grant, from Kenton, north London, was cleared of killing Jahmall Moore, 22, who was shot two years earlier.
But he was charged with Mr Labastide's murder when new witnesses came forward.
Speaking for Grant - who was playing for Bradford as recently as May - Nigel Rumfitt QC said: "Whatever he did in the past, he had turned his life around by the time it [the murder case] was resurrected."
During the trial jurors heard trouble flared after a burglary in which three women were terrorised and it was suspected that £20,000 in drug money was taken.
'Senseless killing'
A 16-year-old girl, who had been in the house, gave evidence under an assumed name.
Mr Labastide was rumoured to have been behind the burglary and Williams arranged for Grant and Downie to shoot him, the court was told.
In a series of shootings that followed Mr Moore was shot by Roberto Parchment in a case of mistaken identity.
Gareth Downie (L) and Damian Williams were also given life sentences at the Old Bailey Parchment, 24, who was originally convicted of Mr Moore's murder, was found guilty again following a retrial in December as a result of information provided by "supergrass" Darren Mathurin.
Speaking after Grant's conviction last week, Det Insp Steve Horsley said: "Gavin Grant thought he had got away with murder.
"He carried on his footballing career while, all along, he had blood on his hands."
In a statement Mr Labastide's mother, Diane Havill, said: "Leon was a keen footballer who shared his passion for the game with all who knew him. He loved life.
"His senseless killing by so-called friends who grew up with him has left it hard for me to understand the futility of snatching Leon's future whilst, in the same breath, destroying their own."
Grant also played for Gillingham, Stevenage, Tooting and Grays during his football career.
Dr. Notthenineo'clocknews
Remainer
BensGrandad
New member
Before Han Krays Fan Club suggests it, as usual, I do not advocate that we sign him him when he is released, he will be too old.
BensGrandad
New member
My view is that whatever a player has been sent to prison for is not for us as supporters to be concerned about. The system and society would have punished the offender in the manner that is appropriate and as such if the players is only imprisoned for a short period and if after release a player is still able to play to the standard required I see no problem in signing him. It is not for me or indeed any supporter to be a judge and jury once again.
I would have no objection to us signing Joey Barton, Marlon King or possibly Lee Hughes if they could improve us. As regards Gavin Grant and Lee McCormack they will have been out of circulation too long to be effective. Does serving a prison sentence mean a player cannot play professional football ever again or are we to be given the right to decide yet once again about the crime that they were sentenced for.
I would have no objection to us signing Joey Barton, Marlon King or possibly Lee Hughes if they could improve us. As regards Gavin Grant and Lee McCormack they will have been out of circulation too long to be effective. Does serving a prison sentence mean a player cannot play professional football ever again or are we to be given the right to decide yet once again about the crime that they were sentenced for.
Freddie Goodwin.
Well-known member
Peter Taylor must be having fun at Bradford City as that's 2 players now involved in crime.
Gritt23
New member
Close call for the former Brighton man here. Some people who got in the way of this fella shots, didn't get to walk away.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_conf/7157380.stm
Grays 1-1 Ebbsfleet
Goalkeeper Lance Cronin was Ebbsfleet's hero as the 10-man visitors held on for a 1-1 draw at Grays Athletic.
Cronin dived low to his left to keep out Aaron O'Connor's penalty after Paul McCarthy had been sent off for blocking Gavin Grant's late goalbound effort.
Grays took the lead when Danny Kedwell headed home Simon Downer's cross.
Ben Watson almost made it 2-0 but his header hit the post and they were made to pay when John Akinde fired a George Purcell pass into the bottom corner.
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Grays: Flitney, Downer, Ashton, Gaia, Stuart, Murray, Day, Selley, O'Connor, Kedwell (Grant 75), Watson (Cumbers 78).
Subs Not Used: Gibbons, Obersteller, Sambrook.
Booked: Kedwell.
Goals: Kedwell 20.
Ebbsfleet: Cronin, Ricketts, Smith, McCarthy, Hawkins, McPhee, Coleman (Akinde 58), Bostwick, Long, Eribenne (Purcell 73), Moore, Purcell (Opinel 85).
Subs Not Used: French, Barrett.
Sent Off: McCarthy (84).
Goals: Akinde 77.
Att: 813
Ref: D Sheldrake (Midlands).
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_conf/7157380.stm
Grays 1-1 Ebbsfleet
Goalkeeper Lance Cronin was Ebbsfleet's hero as the 10-man visitors held on for a 1-1 draw at Grays Athletic.
Cronin dived low to his left to keep out Aaron O'Connor's penalty after Paul McCarthy had been sent off for blocking Gavin Grant's late goalbound effort.
Grays took the lead when Danny Kedwell headed home Simon Downer's cross.
Ben Watson almost made it 2-0 but his header hit the post and they were made to pay when John Akinde fired a George Purcell pass into the bottom corner.
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Grays: Flitney, Downer, Ashton, Gaia, Stuart, Murray, Day, Selley, O'Connor, Kedwell (Grant 75), Watson (Cumbers 78).
Subs Not Used: Gibbons, Obersteller, Sambrook.
Booked: Kedwell.
Goals: Kedwell 20.
Ebbsfleet: Cronin, Ricketts, Smith, McCarthy, Hawkins, McPhee, Coleman (Akinde 58), Bostwick, Long, Eribenne (Purcell 73), Moore, Purcell (Opinel 85).
Subs Not Used: French, Barrett.
Sent Off: McCarthy (84).
Goals: Akinde 77.
Att: 813
Ref: D Sheldrake (Midlands).
Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Obviously we'll never be able to have a convicted murderer on our books because he would eventually be too old to be of any use, but thats not the point. The question is, if in theory it WAS possible, would you have no problem with it as long as he could knock a few goals in ?
Personally I would find it VERY difficult [edit] sorry, IMPOSSIBLE, to cheer on and give my support to a murderer playing for the Albion. Or indeed someone like Hughes or McCormack who, although have done or are doing their time in the eyes of the law, still committed heinous crimes which resulted in the tragic deaths of innocent people.
Would I want to see the likes of them in the stripes ? Not on your nelly.
bhaexpress
New member
It would depend on the seriousness of his crime. The murder conviction is obvious thanks to length of sentence however, whilst a child molester is a no brainer what about somebody who had defrauded pensioners ?
Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
I think any crime / conviction that involved someones DEATH would put me right off having that player in the stripes once his sentence was served. I wouldn't be overly keen on having a convicted RAPIST in there either, although he'd probably be able to put himself about a bit, and would have some good stories for the long coach trips.
Pensioners are fair game. They'll sign anything under a bit of duress.