A team from the seventh division of English soccer apologized on Wednesday for signing a player who in 2017 was found guilty of raping a woman and said he had made a “significant mistake”. He radcliffebased in Manchester, have not made any announcement regarding the signing of the former Scottish striker David Goodwillie and he was selected for a Northern Premier League match on Tuesday. He scored a hat-trick.
But when the 33-year-old Goodwillie was spotted in the team’s official lineup, it sparked outrage among many on Twitter. Goodwillie and former Dundee United team-mate David Robertson were ordered to pay £100,000 (about €135,000) in damages to a woman they raped, a judge ruled at an Edinburgh court in 2017. They did not appear criminal charges against Goodwillie or Robertson.
“As a club, we are always concerned with second chances and have been part of the rehabilitation of many players and staff on that journey,” Radcliffe FC said in a statement. “We always give people a chance to improve their lives. When the club hired David Goodwillie the same logic was used, but in this case it was clearly a significant misstep and our due diligence must be higher level” .
The club said that Goodwillie was signed “because of the desire to do something good for a person with a certain tainted past, as we have successfully done before. But in this case we went too far. It will not happen again. ” , who lost sponsors after signing Goodwillie last year.
Source: La Verdad
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