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L’attaccante del Wigan M.King ( in foto mentre entra in aula ) è stato condannato a 18 mesi di carcere per l’aggressione commessa in un locale ai danni di una cliente ed ora la società per cui milita, il Wigan, potrebbe rescindere il contratto da 35mila sterline a settimana. Per quanto concerne gli incidenti dell’ incontro di “Carling Cup” tra Barnsley e Man U sono avvenute le prime identificazioni di presunti responsabili con relativi strascichi giudiziari a loro carico. Infine pubblichiamo la bizzarra storia di un tifoso del Burnley che ha evitato di essere incarcerato per avere violato il “banning order” in quanto, secondo la corte, in tale caso non potrebbe accudire il proprio cane, così la pena gli è stata sospesa per un anno con l’aggiunta di 200 ore di lavori socialmente utili.
Wigan to sack jailed striker King
King will be left without a club once he has served his sentence
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Wigan chairman Dave Whelan says Marlon King will never play for the club again after he was jailed for 18 months.
The striker, 29, was found guilty of sexual assault and actual bodily harm after he had been “cold-shouldered” by a female student in a London nightclub.The incident occurred last December while he was on loan at Hull.Whelan told BBC Radio 5 live: “We will now be in the process of severing his contract. To say the least I am really, really disappointed.”
(BBC Sport )
King jailed for attack on club girl
The Sun
30 October 2009
By James Clench
STRIKER Marlon King has form for violence against women – with one attack bearing a chilling resemblance to his nightclub act of thuggery.The 29-year-old Wigan Athletic star had been involved in two previous bust-ups with females, resulting in three convictions.Yesterday he was given 18 months’ jail for lashing out again – with his lawyer moaning the sentence would cost him up to £1MILLION in earnings.Premier League Wigan immediately fired him, with chairman Dave Whelan declaring: “He is absolutely sacked.”King had denied punching a 20-year-old student after she complained he had touched her bottom at the nightspot in London’s West End.He claimed he was a victim of mistaken identity. But he was convicted at the capital’s Southwark Crown Court of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and sexual assault by touching.Jurors had heard he told the woman: “Don’t you know who I am? I’m a millionaire. You’re not even in my league.”
Broken
He then hit her so hard that she and two friends were knocked to the floor and his pretty victim was left with blood pouring from a broken nose.Jamaica international King – on £35,000 a week – was jailed, placed on the sex offenders register for seven years and told to pay £3,125 compensation plus £1,600 prosecution costs.As the sentence was handed down, members of the soccer star’s family screamed: “Institutional racism.”One relative shouted: “Heil Hitler,” while another roared: “Steven Gerrard’s still walking the streets” – a reference to the Liverpool captain’s acquittal for affray earlier this year.After the footballer’s lawyer moaned about the star’s loss of wages, Judge Nicholas Loraine-Smith said: “It is difficult to be sympathetic when you boasted about how much you earned.”You have shown not a hint of shame for your disgraceful and arrogant behaviour.”Six-footer King – jailed in 2002 for handling a stolen BMW – has 13 previous convictions dating back to 1997.In May 2006, he was accused of approaching stranger Claudia Canadas near Leicester Square and slapping her bottom.After she complained, he slapped her in the face.When cops attended, he spat at her in the presence of the police.The footballer admitting using threatening or abusive behaviour and was fined £300 plus costs of £55.He was also ordered to pay compensation of £500 by Bow Street magistrates.In June 2003 King was told to pay £1,600 in compensation, fines and costs at Bow Street after admitting two counts of common assault against women.The court heard he had chased two females through Soho with a belt buckle wrapped around his fist.
One told police he had punched her in the face, causing cuts and swelling.Five weeks after the incident, King’s then solicitor Martin Lee told cops that he was unable to attend a police station appointment because he was at a residential drugs rehab clinic.During this week’s case King, whose other convictions include drink-driving and various motor offences, told the jury under oath he had never taken drugs.The Wigan forward lashed out during a boozy night with friends last December to celebrate the news wife Julie was expecting their third child.Earlier, he had scored the winning goal against Middlesbrough for Hull City, with whom he was then on loan.Onlookers told how he appeared to be drunk or on drugs as he tried to force his attentions on various girls.The victim, just over 5ft, was celebrating a friend’s birthday at London’s Soho Review Bar when she said King fondled her backside.She said: “I felt someone grab my bum – someone grab my left buttock.”I turned around because I was quite disgusted and shocked.”There was a man standing towards the bar, further up the walkway, smirking at me in a suggestive way.”I looked at him and said quite firmly, ‘Don’t touch me, it’s not nice. Don’t do that’.”King then tried to grope two of her friends also at her table, stroking their chins and necks.The victim told jurors: “I just turned around and said, ‘You’re not part of this table, can you please leave?'”I’m quite a lot smaller than him and he looked over my head at my friend, saying, ‘Get this girl away from me’.”The footballer then “smashed” her in the face, leaving her with a broken nose, black eye and split lip.Witnesses said they recognised King, who has a distinctive gold tooth.He then paid his bill, left with pals, and returned to his Hertfordshire mansion.He later insisted he had been in the club only an hour and 45 minutes, and had left quietly after three drinks.
Temper
King, whose previous clubs include Gillingham and Watford, denied he was involved in any altercation, telling jurors: “I didn’t punch no woman.”But Ryan Watts, a former colleague of the striker who witnessed the incident, told the court: “I watch a lot of football and I play a lot of football.”I knew it was Marlon King because I was on trial for Watford FC for two months when he played there.”The judge told King: “You touched the complainant on the backside in a way that amounted to sexual assault.”Although they and others told you politely to leave them alone, you weren’t prepared to be ignored.”After some time, you simply lost your temper and punched her hard in the face.”Last night King’s agent Tony Finnegan said plans were in place for appeals against both his sentence and his sacking. He said: “No one saw this coming. He’s very, very disappointed.”
EXCLUSIVE: FA Must Not Make “Scapegoat” Of Manchester United After “Diabolical” Behaviour At Barnsley – Fanzine Spokesman
Goal
29 October 2009
Matt Monaghan
The asstistant editor of oldest United fanzine demands equal treatment…
Rioting Manchester United fans have brought shame on the club, but the Football Association must deal with the problem fairly, according to Liam Bradford.
The F.A. have launched an investigation into the mid-week rampage during the League Cup clash at Barnsley that saw a burger kiosk ransacked as eight terrified catering staff barricaded themselves behind metal shutters.Riot police and dog handlers were also deployed to stop hooligans charging on to the pitch during the 2-0 victory for the Premier League champions.Police made eight arrests at the game, with four United supporters and four from the Championship outfit taken in to custody.Mr Bradford is the assistant editor of Red News, the first fanzine for the club established in 1987, and a prominent member of the Independent Manchester United Supporters Association. Speaking exclusively to Goal.com UK, he slammed the actions of the minority in attendance.“I wasn’t at the game myself, but speaking to a number of people who were there, the issue came from supporters who do not usually travel to away games,” he said. “People who are usually priced out got in and caused the problems.“The behaviour of the minority of supporters involved was diabolical and unacceptable. We [Manchester United fans] sing the song ‘the best behaved supporters in the land’ and Tuesday’s events were not a fair representation.“This has brought shame on the club and the minority have given us a bad name. We have travelled across Europe, going to Moscow and Rome for the last two Champions League finals, and not caused any problems.“[Manchester] United only really get in trouble for persistent standing, and I admit, that is a problem. Reduced allocations and the standing issue have made us very defiant, and as the fans want to stay stood up, this causes more trouble.“United are constantly in the spotlight and 95 per cent of supporters don’t act like that. The minority have put us at the top of the news agenda, but it’s important to remember we have made huge strides since the chaos of the 1970s.”The 24-year old agreed with the decision to investigate the incident and is happy to accept any punishment as long as it falls in line with sanctions handed out to other clubs.Mr Bradford made reference to the eight-month ban Ferdinand received in 2004 after missing a drugs test. Edgar Davids was suspended for just four months on appeal three years earlier after being caught using a banned substance.He argued: “The F.A. has charged Millwall and West Ham [United] and if we deserve that kind of sanction, then that’s fine. Punishments must be handed out equally across the board though, and [Manchester] United must not be made a scapegoat again.“We all remember how Rio [Ferdinand] was treated.”
Fans bailed over match violence
BBC News
29 October 2009
Three men arrested on suspicion of violent disorder during Manchester United’s Carling Cup win at Barnsley have been bailed.The men, aged 22, 24 and 27 and from Manchester, were arrested as trouble flared at Oakwell Stadium on Tuesday.They have been bailed until 4 December, along with another United fan who was arrested on suspicion of throwing a missile on to the pitch.Three men are due in court next week accused of running on to the pitch.The Barnsley supporters, two aged 21 and one aged 25, have been charged with entering a playing area during a designated football game.They will appear at Barnsley Magistrates’ Court on 6 November.The Football Association (FA) is investigating the incidents.
Burnley Football Hooligan Escapes Jail Because He Loves His Dog
Anorak
29 October 2009
IS that you in the “DEE 38” top biting off part of a fan’s ear at the Champions League final in Rome?
Football hooliganism was once the media’s favourite topic . One of your writer’s first jobs in sports journalism was to compile a “Year Of Shame” list. It turned out that the archives had one for each year and all that was needed was to look for any game in the past 12 months featuring two of Leeds, Chelsea or Millwall to keep it up to date.The media loves talking of and talking up crowd trouble. You do get lunatics like “Dee 38” and one Michael Lewis, who breached his Football Banning Order for the third time when he went to a match at Blackpool.Lewis’s case show that banning orders can work. But are they effective?Lewis told magistrates he had come to the resort with his dog for a four-day break. He met a man who invited him to go to the match…Lewis said: “I was not drunk, I was just a bit fresh. I thought my banning order was just for Burnley matches and international matches.“I would not like to go to prison today. Years ago, I would not have bothered, but I now have a little dog, who is like a son to me, and I would miss him.”He is sentenced to eight weeks’ imprisonment, suspended for 12 months, ordered to do 200 hours unpaid work for the community, put on a year’s supervision and told to pay £85 costs by Blackpool magistrates.“Dee 38? is thought to be like a dog to his family, also…