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Stokes Arrested

sledger

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StephenZA said:
This is sad as a cricketing spectator..... but even if you get away with the criminal charge nowadays, as a public persona can screw up your entire career.
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Not like there is anything wrong with that imo. Behave like a ****, get treated like a **** etc
 
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Dan

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Can't upload an image from my phone, but (very unconfirmed, purely speculative) whispers on Twitter that Stokes may have been "interceding on behalf of someone receiving homophobic abuse".

The ECB is handling this quite well, to be fair.
 
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Dan

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I've deleted the post (and responses) and it's under review by the mod team.

If you don't know what I'm talking about, good.
 
Spikey

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Dan said:
Can't upload an image from my phone, but (very unconfirmed, purely speculative) whispers on Twitter that Stokes may have been "interceding on behalf of someone receiving homophobic abuse".

The ECB is handling this quite well, to be fair.
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Defending gay people? There's no way Peter Dutton will let him in the country now.
 
sledger

sledger

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Dan said:
Can't upload an image from my phone, but (very unconfirmed, purely speculative) whispers on Twitter that Stokes may have been "interceding on behalf of someone receiving homophobic abuse".

The ECB is handling this quite well, to be fair.
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Whilst that might make it better morally (from some perspectives, at least), legally it doesn't help him one jot.
 
Scaly piscine

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Yea there's a version of events on Twatter from Piers Morgan, who for reasons of taste and decency I won't link to.
 
burr

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He has children. Doing that while I assume the wife is at home looking after them is pathetic.
 
nick-o

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Well, this thread has turned into a real pack of ****, but this post from the first page surely takes the biscuit:

TheJediBrah said:
Yeah if anything he'll just fit in better over here. No one's going to take away one of the biggest draws of the Ashes because of a harmless little assault.
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I mean, seriously, when is assault ever "harmless"? It's assault, for crying out loud. It is never "harmless".

There's some guy out there who suffered actual bodily harm, who may or may not have been culpable in an attack and may or may not have been backing off at the time. We don't know.

But, for crissakes, it absolutely wasn't "harmless", and the attitude expressed in that post is beyond repugnant.
 
sledger

sledger

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For Stokes to be convicted of common assault the victim doesn't need to have experienced any "harm" anyway. So to some extent any talk of harm is kind of a red herring.

But yeah, I think by any understanding of the term, whacking a bloke to the ground and then kicking him whilst he's down isn't "harmless".
 
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mr_mister

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how many more of these 'im appalled by the comments here tonight' posts are going to be made?


these comments happen anytime theres a controversial thing on the internet
 
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