Good enough for this f**king lowlife!
Wigan chairman sacks Marlon King and says the striker's career may be over• Imprisoned striker 'finished at Wigan'
Stuart James guardian.co.uk, Thursday 29 October 2009
Dave Whelan tonight confirmed that Marlon King would never play for Wigan Athletic again after the disgraced striker was sentenced to 18 months in prison. The Wigan chairman also expressed his doubts that King will return to professional football on his release after he was found guilty of sexual assault and actually bodily harm following an incident in a London nightclub while on loan at Hull City.
King cost Wigan £5m from Watford less than two years ago but Whelan felt that his offence was so serious that he had no option but to sack the player. "We have to follow the rules and regulations, which means we will have to give him 14 days' notice that his contract will be cancelled," he said. "He is absolutely sacked – we will not tolerate football players who get sent to jail for 18 months. As far as we are concerned, he is finished with football at Wigan Athletic.
"It sets such a bad example for our youngsters coming through, who are just crazy about being professional footballers," continued Whelan. "Young people look up to professional footballers and we must have standards. At Wigan we're mad keen on setting standards and our players, generally, are absolutely brilliant. It can happen to any club — this has happened while the lad was on loan to Hull. I don't blame Hull in any way, shape or form, but we have to stand up and be counted."
Whelan also admitted that he wished Wigan had never signed King, who served five months in prison earlier in his career after he was caught driving a stolen BMW in 2002. "I do personally regret the day," he said. "When we signed him I always thought his heart and soul wasn't in being a professional footballer. We loaned him out last year, we were trying to offload him this year and couldn't."
Having spent the second half of last season at Middlesbrough, King returned to Wigan this summer and made four appearances in the current campaign, the 29-year-old's most recent outing coming as a substitute against Burnley last Saturday.
Whelan suspects that could prove to be his final game as a professional. "It will be very, very difficult for any club to stick their neck out and take Marlon on," he said. "I cannot really see him coming back as a professional."
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Hmmm I was amazed that any club would touch Joey Barton after showing himself to be an animal, but their he is still getting paid millions. Sad to say but some club will probably offer this guy another contract.
"My final expression of thanks is to the supporters of both Ireland and Leinster with whom I have shared some special days that I will never forget" - Shane Horgan
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he groped a girl in a nightclub, and when she tried to stop him he decked her.
classy guy
classy guy
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True, football clubs would pretty much sign a paedophile if they thought they'd do a job for them. Just so long as it wasn't a Gay paedophile of course, cause that would be unacceptable.Scott wrote:Hmmm I was amazed that any club would touch Joey Barton after showing himself to be an animal, but their he is still getting paid millions. Sad to say but some club will probably offer this guy another contract.
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The Fiver's take on King and his agent! Some bloody rap sheet!!!!
Chiselling Out A Few Extra Quid From Even The Most Unsavoury Of PR
Disasters
Barney Ronay
30 October 2009
KING OF THE ILL
The Fiver has always dreamed of becoming a big enough swinging
appendage in the humorous email scene to have a Mr 10%. A particular
kind of Mr 10% too: one of those yodelling, high-fiving,
romantically-involved-with-Renee-Zellweger agents, constantly on the
verge of shouting "show me the derisory 17p annual royalty statement
on an unfunny Fiver Christmas annual that ends up going in one of
those bins by the stairs after just three days out on the 'humour'
table!" Or at least that was the case, until the Fiver caught sight
of new dream Tony Finnegan, who has the currently quite tricky job of
representing Marlon King.
"No one saw this coming," said Finnegan after King's conviction for
$exual assault and actual bodily harm, in the process putting on the
most disturbingly over-the-top exhibition of standing by your man
since the Fiver's encounter with a quart of methylated spirits, a
tea-time-email gender identity crisis and a late-night wrong turn
into the bear-pit of the Rubber Monkey Dolly Parton Karaoke Tribute
Night.
Still, the Fiver believes in giving everyone a fair hearing. Even if
some people do seem to get a lot more fair hearings than others -
like these ones belonging to Marlon King for example:
1997: Marlon King convicted of head-butting and punching opposition
player.
1999: Marlon King fined for theft and fraudulently using tax disc.
2002: Marlon King fined for drunk, uninsured driving.
2002: Marlon King secures community order for criminal damage.
Still 2002: Marlon King jailed for receiving a stolen GBP30,000 BMW.
2003: Marlon King fined for chasing two women down Soho street with
belt buckle wrapped around his fist.
2005: Marlon King fined for spitting in the face of woman he'd never
met before.
The Fiver would respectfully suggest that if no one really did see
this coming, no one might have perhaps had a squint at the King
career rap sheet. Still, it takes a great deal more than that to stop
his paid representative, who is still calling for the PFA to "stand
by" the man once described as "the Thierry Henry of the Championship"
(note to Tony Finnegan: membership of union does not generally confer
watertight backing for right to break noses in trendy night spots;
it's usually more to do with the solidarity of workers).
And in closing, the Fiver's new favourite Mr Fix-it also believes Dave
Whelan has made a huge mistake sacking his jailed, $ex
offender-registered, 29-year-old one-goal striker. "If he comes out
in three months' time and he wanted to be signed by another Premier
League club, do Wigan allow him to go for nothing or do they seek a
fee?" Finnegan wiffled, pound-signs still flickering across his
eyeballs even on the court steps, and his belief in redemption,
forgiveness, and being able to chisel out a few extra quid from even
the most unsavoury of PR disasters still hearteningly - and for the
Fiver thrillingly - intact.
Chiselling Out A Few Extra Quid From Even The Most Unsavoury Of PR
Disasters
Barney Ronay
30 October 2009
KING OF THE ILL
The Fiver has always dreamed of becoming a big enough swinging
appendage in the humorous email scene to have a Mr 10%. A particular
kind of Mr 10% too: one of those yodelling, high-fiving,
romantically-involved-with-Renee-Zellweger agents, constantly on the
verge of shouting "show me the derisory 17p annual royalty statement
on an unfunny Fiver Christmas annual that ends up going in one of
those bins by the stairs after just three days out on the 'humour'
table!" Or at least that was the case, until the Fiver caught sight
of new dream Tony Finnegan, who has the currently quite tricky job of
representing Marlon King.
"No one saw this coming," said Finnegan after King's conviction for
$exual assault and actual bodily harm, in the process putting on the
most disturbingly over-the-top exhibition of standing by your man
since the Fiver's encounter with a quart of methylated spirits, a
tea-time-email gender identity crisis and a late-night wrong turn
into the bear-pit of the Rubber Monkey Dolly Parton Karaoke Tribute
Night.
Still, the Fiver believes in giving everyone a fair hearing. Even if
some people do seem to get a lot more fair hearings than others -
like these ones belonging to Marlon King for example:
1997: Marlon King convicted of head-butting and punching opposition
player.
1999: Marlon King fined for theft and fraudulently using tax disc.
2002: Marlon King fined for drunk, uninsured driving.
2002: Marlon King secures community order for criminal damage.
Still 2002: Marlon King jailed for receiving a stolen GBP30,000 BMW.
2003: Marlon King fined for chasing two women down Soho street with
belt buckle wrapped around his fist.
2005: Marlon King fined for spitting in the face of woman he'd never
met before.
The Fiver would respectfully suggest that if no one really did see
this coming, no one might have perhaps had a squint at the King
career rap sheet. Still, it takes a great deal more than that to stop
his paid representative, who is still calling for the PFA to "stand
by" the man once described as "the Thierry Henry of the Championship"
(note to Tony Finnegan: membership of union does not generally confer
watertight backing for right to break noses in trendy night spots;
it's usually more to do with the solidarity of workers).
And in closing, the Fiver's new favourite Mr Fix-it also believes Dave
Whelan has made a huge mistake sacking his jailed, $ex
offender-registered, 29-year-old one-goal striker. "If he comes out
in three months' time and he wanted to be signed by another Premier
League club, do Wigan allow him to go for nothing or do they seek a
fee?" Finnegan wiffled, pound-signs still flickering across his
eyeballs even on the court steps, and his belief in redemption,
forgiveness, and being able to chisel out a few extra quid from even
the most unsavoury of PR disasters still hearteningly - and for the
Fiver thrillingly - intact.