Quote Originally Posted by Trickytreesreds View Post
Sorry, it's not morality.
You mentioned teaching. Forgive me if I'm wrong, but isn't that a position of ectreme trust?
Parents, put their children in the hands of a group of whiter than white based on trust.
Perhaps you can enlighten me to a teachers contract and codes of ethics written in it.
Is the same as the police/prison service/ medical etc?

I assume there must be some wriggle room, as there are coppers with records in service. I don't agree with that on "moral" grounds, but how far does it stretch?

Back to the topic in hand. DCFC did themselves no favours, with their stance. They should have either punished all, or dished the same level of punishment Lawrence received. That's why Keogh won.

Here's an extreme for you, involving my shower.
Van Hooidjonk, goes on strikke.
Now the club should have done one of two things
1. Sacked him
2. Refused to play him again and held on to his registration.

2 Was my favourite, but was never going to happen, because he was worth millions.
So NFFC bowed down to someone bringing shame on the club, for money. The same as Lawrence.
Actually I didn’t introduce teaching into the debate at all...Swale and your good self did.

It’s obviously a position of extreme trust while those concerned are working or in loco parentis. Beyond that...I don’t know. I certainly know a number of teachers, including myself, who’d fail your ‘whiter than white’ test.
Wasn’t Keogh in a position of trust as captain of Derby County? He was a club ‘ambassador’...lots of young people had their photograph taken with him and he always seemed to be an excellent role model.

No idea about the ‘police/prison service/medical’ contracts/code of ethics...and of course money came into things with Lawrence and Bennett...as it did with the two Liverpool players who got done for drink driving. If it was your money would you spend a fortune on signing someone and paying their wages only to ‘give them away’ because of a legal transgression? There’d be plenty who’d unhesitatingly have taken him off our hands for nowt, just as Preston seem to have with Ched Evans.

Keogh too was worth something - more than Bennett I’d imagine - but, for hopefully the final time, his actions made him unavailable for work. Lawrence and Bennett’s didn’t. That, along with the fact that they were actual law breakers, is the reason they were treated separately and punished differently.

Note you haven’t answered the hypothetical teacher conundrum. It’s a lot more relevant than your Van Hooijdonk example.