"I expect, like most participants in and followers of that loathsome game, that Evans the man with the silly first name, is a piece of scum."
Do we ignore this as yet another instance where Richard is kind enough to inform us how little regard he has for the game of football or do we point out that several respected members of this forum are also keen football fans? Therefore by his reckoning "pieces of scum"
Personally I am unable to form a firm opinion on this situation since, in recent memory, two players having been imprisoned for causing death by dangerous/drink driving (considered a far worse crime than the above by many) and another jailed for physical assault on a woman were, following their release, allowed to resume their careers at a high profile level of the game.