NEVER MIND VIOLENCE IN FOOTBALL, WHAT ABOUT VIOLENT FOOTBALLERS...? BY SANDRA HARRIS. ©
NEVER MIND VIOLENCE IN FOOTBALL, WHAT ABOUT VIOLENT FOOTBALLERS? BY SANDRA HARRIS. © ‘My teenage son, who's also autistic, adores Premier League football and the Champions League as well. Understandably for someone as young and impressionable, these men are his heroes, his idols. But more and more of them are getting in trouble for the rape and battery of women. Just today, one of his favourite Manchester United players is on the front pages of the newspapers for rape and assault. I'll tell you something for nothing, it's getting very hard to teach a boy of today to respect women and never be violent to them when the men who should be his examples and role models behave the way they do.’ Above is a post I put up on Facebook yesterday morning after it was made known that Man. Utd forward Mason Greenwood had been arrested by the English police for the alleged rape and assault of a woman. A lot of the comments...