Footballer Marlon King has been jailed for 18 months for sexually assaulting a woman - and will be sacked by Premier League club Wigan Athletic as a result.The striker was repeatedly "cold-shouldered" by the 20-year-old student in a bar in central London last December, Southwark Crown Court heard. He groped her and then punched her, leaving her with a broken nose. The father-of-three, from Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, had insisted it was a case of mistaken identity. The jury returned a 10-2 majority verdict, however, and King was convicted of sexually assaulting the woman and causing actual bodily harm. The assault happened at the Soho Revue Bar at a time when he was on loan with Hull City. King was celebrating two occasions - his wife's latest pregnancy and the scoring of a winning goal - with a night out in the West End.
Prosecution lawyer Roger Daniells-Smith said King had struck up a conversation with his victim by saying: "Don't you know who I am? I'm a millionaire."
The court heard she replied: "I don't care who you are; take your millionaire-self away from our table."
He groped the woman and she told him: "Don't do that, it's not nice. Don't touch me."
King was warned off her again but he continued to stroke the woman's hair and then told her she was not in his league, the court heard.
After she pushed him in the chest, King lost his temper and a moment of "completely gratuitous violence" led to him "smashing" the victim to the floor, jurors were told.
Two other people standing beside him were also knocked away as a result of the force of the blow he inflicted.
Several witnesses testified that King was responsible, despite his denial.
They included a football coach who insisted the 29-year-old Jamaican international was the assailant.
Wigan Athletic chairman Dave Whelan said King "was finished with football" at the club.
"We will now be in the process of severing his contract," he told BBC Radio 5 live.
"To say the least, I am really, really disappointed."
Mr Whelan continued: "It's really upsetting and it just sets such a bad example for any youngster coming through who wants to be a professional footballer."
In 2002 King, then playing for Gillingham, served five months of a two-year prison sentence for handling a stolen car before being released on appeal.
Other previous convictions include dishonesty and a range of motoring offences, including drink-driving.
No... you're not using your head. It takes no effort at all to do those things. All the guy does is show up. That's all they know how to do.
Think about this:
What if somebody told you, Polite, do you think you, as a representative of the team, can show up next Tuesday at the Childrens Hospital and pose for a few pictures, shake a few hands and hang around for an hour? There will of course be several drop-dead gorgeous women there --nurses --who'll want to meet (and probably sleep) with you and there's a good possibility of meeting several people who might want to offer you business opportunities. Of course we'll pick you up and chauffure you there in the team limosine and afterwards whisk you away to attend dinner with the club.
You: Sure.. I'll do the little people a favor. But you owe me. And I need to be paid extra. And I want my picture in the paper. This is like above and beyond, you know? And I want credit for it. My picture better be on the front page!
So if an athlete does something bad then he's worthless scum, but if an athlete does something good then he's only doing it for selfish reasons. You say that without personally knowing any of these athletes and without having the slightest clue as to what really went on when they asked the athlete to come out, or if they even asked him, there's always the chance he voluntarily came.
My wife's cousin was a missionary in Columbia helping the locals there, he was killed by local warlords, he was not an athlete so guess what, only his hometown newspaper made any mention of it. What's my point? People only recognize good deeds if they are performed by an athlete. Yeah this player seems to be a decent guy, but there's a lot of decent people out there and they are NOT ATHLETES! Considering all the bad shit many pro athletes cause I guess it is noteworthy to mention when one of them does something decent for a change. Most of them are worthless assholes.
Greencom
Polite24 wrote:Most are worthless assholes? You do realize you don't even know a fraction of a percent of athletes, right?
Mr. Polite, name ALL the ATHLETES YOU KNOW! Remember, you have to name at least 1% of the athletes in the world, no less. You MUST MUST MUST MUST MUST MUST MUST (MUST!) name me 20,000 athletes in this forum alone, the day you read this message. You just lost the game... OH DAMN IT I LOST THE GAME!
HULK SMASH SPORTS JOCK'S HEAD! OWWWW, HULK HURT HAND!
He's using his BRAIN. I don't have to taste every M&M in the world to know that M&Ms are delicious.
I don't have to touch every hot stove in town to know that stoves burn.
Similarly, I don't have to meet every pro-athlete to know they are self-centered glory hounds. If they were truly benevolent, they wouldn't call ahead to have newspaper reporters on hand to document their charity effort, WOULD THEY??
See? Use your noggin for something other than a helmet stuffer.
Sergey and Ray,
Well said guys. Polite is so pathetic defending those overpaid nonecks. I wouldn't lower myself to even be in the same room with these degenerate self serving dicks let alone want to know them.
Greencom
greencom wrote:Sergey and Ray,
Well said guys. Polite is so pathetic defending those overpaid nonecks. I wouldn't lower myself to even be in the same room with these degenerate self serving dicks let alone want to know them.
Greencom
Thanks!
Yeah.. I don't know why he is so passionate in defending them. I wonder what's innit for him. The answer to that would be revealing I suspect.
Ray wrote:He's using his BRAIN. I don't have to taste every M&M in the world to know that M&Ms are delicious.
I don't have to touch every hot stove in town to know that stoves burn.
Similarly, I don't have to meet every pro-athlete to know they are self-centered glory hounds. If they were truly benevolent, they wouldn't call ahead to have newspaper reporters on hand to document their charity effort, WOULD THEY??
See? Use your noggin for something other than a helmet stuffer.
Excellent!
That reminds me of something my dear departed mother once said "Use your head for something besides a hat-rack"!
I'm fat and sassy! I love to sing & dance & stomp my feet & really rock your world!
All I want to hear from an ex-jock is "Will that be paper or plastic?" After that he can shut the fuck up!
Heah comes da judge! Heah comes da judge! Order in da court 'cuz heah comes da judge!
I'm fat and sassy! I love to sing & dance & stomp my feet & really rock your world!
