Blue Maniac
Alzheimers sufferer
Last Thursday lunchtime. He got a ticking off from an old woman at the post office for trying to jump the queue.
City in for former Jailbird
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Granite Fox
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The final straw BM. We don't want people like that at our club.
David Gwilliam
Well-Known Member
How long it is since the young woman who was his victim thought about the incident? We will never know but I would expect it never really goes away.
How long is it since Marlon KIng asked the Coventry fans to stop those chants about the young woman - chants she may well be only too aware of?
Feriol
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gregs_y2k
Active Member
There's always the family he can apologise to. It's by no means going to take away any of the pain but it's something. An example being Lee Hughes arranging charity football matches and doing a lot of community work since his imprisonment and meeting up with the daughter of the man he killed. It will never make up for his actions on that night but at least it shows he is remorseful.
As you've just said it was an act of stupidity, which I completely agree with, which had a tragic outcome. My point is that one act of stupidity does not make him a worse person the Marlon King, a persistent and an aggressive offender, which I believe was your initial point.
Blue Maniac
Alzheimers sufferer
He may not have specifically intended to injure someone like King undoubtedly did, but he did something that he knew could cause death. King knew he wasn't going to kill anyone. Chapman must have known he was likely to.
FryattFox
Well-Known Member
He hardly would have know he was likely to. There must be a fairly high percentage of drivers who have sped, used their phone, or performed other acts whilst driving. Not that that makes it acceptable; but their hardly 'likely' to kill someone.
For the record, I'd rather have dinner with Chapman, but I'd rather live with what King had done. Chapman was clearly unlucky however he ended up in those circumstances, but the consequence of his actions was far worse imho than King's.
spionfox
Well-Known Member
Gillian Taylforth anybody :icon_lol:
David Gwilliam
Well-Known Member
Did you quote the wrong post? or did you misunderstand my question?
Re-reading your question I may well have misunderstood it which is always a danger with rhetorical questions.
Therefore to turn my rhetorical questions into statements.
It may well be that the victim will never fully recover from the shock of that incident.
I have heard that Marlon King appealed the conviction. I have not heard that he made any effort to recompense the victim or (if she prefered) to give money from his wages to a charity of her choice.
We do know from Gordon Taylor that the PFA can arrange help on Anger management issues but that Marlon King has decided not to ask for this.
We can be sure that Marlon King is aware of the chants about his victim. There is no record of him publicly asking the Coventry fans to desist.
I very much believe in giving people a second chance provided any necessary safeguards are in check. For a 4th or 5th chance I believe you are dealing with a pattern of behaviour and that the onus is on the offender to prove himself.
Mawsley
Well-Known Member
Not now, thanks - I've already been eaten.
Blue Maniac
Alzheimers sufferer
I think you might have it the wrong way round...
Blue Maniac
Alzheimers sufferer
spionfox
Well-Known Member
beaumontfox
New Member
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city-faithful
Well-Known Member
http://www.thebluearmy.co.uk/news/M...mits-Sven/article-3527327-detail/article.html
Bit more substance to this. I'd like to think it won't happen though.
Bit more substance to this. I'd like to think it won't happen though.
Cate Fox
Well-Known Member
The majority who have commented on the story dont want it to happen either.
bocadillo
Water Gypsy
Some crap in the story though. Sven is quoted as saying, "...we cannot contact players until the league is finished". The truth is that clubs can talk to and sign pre-contract agreements with players who are about to come out of contract from January onwards.
Makes me wonder about the rest of what is written.
Macky
Gruntled Member
SVEN OUT! He's clearly just lying to us, the snake!
Thank Bod we have the Mercury to tell us the facts
Harbro-Fox
Legend
He has done his time and served his sentence, I'd take him if the Yak and co go back we have no strikers and I am sure that King would score goals like he has done for a shite Cov team this year.
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