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 Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2009 10:35 pm Post subject: Marlon King jailed for 18 months and sacked by Wigan |
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Good to see him treated in exactly the way you or I would have been
Should never play again
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Footballer Marlon King has been jailed for 18 months for sexually assaulting a woman - and has been sacked by Premier League club Wigan Athletic as a result.
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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."
Whelan, who only learned on Tuesday that King was on trial at Southwark Crown Court, must follow Premier League rules and pay the player's wages for 14 days before terminating his contract.
The Latics chairman went on: "It's really upsetting and it just sets such a bad example for any youngster coming through who wants to be a professional footballer.
"He was on loan at the time to Hull City but I don't blame Hull City. Marlon King has got to accept full responsibility for this."
After groping and punching his victim at the Soho Revue Bar, breaking her nose, King briefly returned to Hull before spending a subsequent spell on loan at Middlesbrough in January.
The father of three, born in Dulwich, south London, finally made his way back to Wigan in the summer, but is now left without a club.
In 2002 King, who lives in Hertfordshire, served five months of a two-year prison sentence for handling a stolen car before being released on appeal.
A year later, he was convicted for common assault on two women he chased through London with a belt wrapped round his fist. And in 2006 he was convicted of threatening behaviour after slapping another woman and then spitting at her when police arrived.
Whelan explained how King had kept the club in the dark about the most recent, and most severe misdemeanour.
"It's been kept quite secret by the player. We knew he did something but we didn't know exactly what it was. When you read how serious it was, I mean striking a girl and breaking her nose and messing about like that, we didn't realise the severity of what was happening here.
"We knew he'd been charged with something but I was shocked by what he had actually done and I was shocked by the sentence. But if he deserves it then he's got to do it.
"I sat down with Marlon at the start of the season and said 'Marlon, if you want to play for Wigan Athletic you've got to settle down, train hard and go on the field and give your best.
"He never mentioned anything about this case and he promised me that he was going to train hard and he actually has trained hard, I have to say that.
"Once he's served his sentence, if he manages to get back into football, so be it, but he will never pull on the shirt of Wigan Athletic again."
However, King's agent Tony Finnigan, the former Crystal Palace pro, said the player was certain to find employment with another club after serving his sentence.
Finnigan told BBC Radio 5 live: "He has rights as a professional athlete. When you are a footballer you want to play football.
"Let's say he does his time and comes out afterwards. Do you expect him to work for McDonald's? Someone - you trust me on this - will sign him to score goals, because that's what he does best.
"He'll be devastated sitting in a cell with someone tonight. This ain't a movie, this is real life. No-one expected this."
King, a Jamaica international, started his professional career with Barnet, before moving to Gillingham.
He next signed for Nottingham Forest, who briefly loaned him out to Leeds United, before making his Premier League debut with Watford in the 2006-07 season.
In January 2008, he made his move to Wigan for an initial £3m on a three-and-a-half year contract with a £40,000-a-week salary. |
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Cos he plays for England!
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And coz he had a better defence than "it wasn't me guv, honest" when there were 146 witnesses!
Got pissed off with Roy Keane over this, he says it's unfair and that the abundance of camera phones held by jealous 'normal' folk have made it impossible for footballers to go out and enjoy themselves! Reckons that in his day you could get away with much more... Obviously Keano thinks punching a bird coz she wont sleep with you is just a bit of fun! Tosser.... As for King i just hope no one signs him in 9 months when he gets out, but they will... |
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Step up Gordon Taylor to come out with his usual bollocks, and say that King will get full support of the PFA to get back on track when released, FFS what about the girl he smacked up? that's who he should be supporting, these tosspots just don't live in the real world 
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| kenagen wrote: | | what about the girl he smacked up? that's who he should be supporting |
To be fair, she's busy selling her story to various papers. I'd gladly take a thump from a footballer (heck, I'd even let him feel me up) if I knew some Sunday rag would give me a few grand to tell them about it.
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| lastboyscout wrote: | | How come Gerrard didn`t get jail then for doing a similar thing? |
Liverpool Crown Court, and not Manchester Crown Court 
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| bentro wrote: | | kenagen wrote: | | what about the girl he smacked up? that's who he should be supporting |
To be fair, she's busy selling her story to various papers. I'd gladly take a thump from a footballer (heck, I'd even let him feel me up) if I knew some Sunday rag would give me a few grand to tell them about it. |
"To be fair"? Well that just about sums up today's attitudes, lets all go out looking for someone to beat us up so we can make a few £££ out of it 
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| kenagen wrote: | | bentro wrote: | | kenagen wrote: | | what about the girl he smacked up? that's who he should be supporting |
To be fair, she's busy selling her story to various papers. I'd gladly take a thump from a footballer (heck, I'd even let him feel me up) if I knew some Sunday rag would give me a few grand to tell them about it. |
"To be fair"? Well that just about sums up today's attitudes, lets all go out looking for someone to beat us up so we can make a few £££ out of it |
Not what you wanna show the kids growing up is it
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