The issue with the Evans situation is people are aghast he's so unrepentant and refuses to quietly accept his guilt. He won't stop telling people it was consensual. The fact that judge gave him the minimum sentence may reflect some doubt of his guilt in the judges eyes (usually someone who refuses to acknowledge guilt gets a tougher penalty, no?)
I've heard so many stories over the years from one of my best friends, who used to do a lot of events management in Manchester, so knew most of the footballers quite well (she did date one for a while, until he admitted he wasn't actually a plumber but played for Utd, so she chucked him,as she knew what they were like!), she also knew many of the girls who hung around the footballers - some were friends, colleagues, friends of friends, common faces at her events.... Anyway the stories are horrific. Footballers were regularly getting stung for cash purely because they were a sucker for a pair of things to suck on... some girls (and were talking a small minority) would sleep with players, then demand money to stop them going to the press. If that didn't work they'd demand money to stop them crying rape. Basically it was their livelihood, but the players would fall for it time and time again - many didn't care and weren't fussed to chuck £10k a girls way to shut them up, and if only 1/10 girls were like that, well it figures out cheaper than hookers. One certain ex-England player would get stung every 3 months or so, he was that bad, but he'd pay up and laugh it off..... Then theres the ones who'd deliberately get pregnant, and demand a fortune for an abortion (cheaper than maintenance after all!).
Part of me feels Evans might've got himself caught up in something like this - after all why be drawing attention to yourself 3 years later by shouting innocence? If you've got no proof to say this is the case then offering it as your defence would really land you in the **** if it doesn't work.... I dunno though
