I like to consider myself pretty liberal, and I'm all for giving people who've made mistakes a second chance.
I like to consider myself pretty liberal, and I'm all for giving people who've made mistakes a second chance. When that person is Wigan striker Marlon King though, I'm afraid I get rather more right-wing.
King, for those who don't know - and there surely can't be many - was jailed last week for sexually assaulting and then punching a young woman in a London bar.
Regardless of what he does for a living, such actions are beneath contempt. But the fact that he is a well-paid (�35k-a-week) professional footballer merely reinforces the ever-growing stereotype of players as spoilt, vain, aggressive thugs.
King, though, goes one step further.
- Read more now, and have your say, in Mark Heath's Playing the Links blog.
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