Offside

Let us confine ourselves to the undisputed facts of the Ched Evans case.

He and an associate had sexual intercourse with a heavily intoxicated stranger, while other persons filmed the proceedings on their smartphones.

Even if his girlfriend is convinced that that activity was consensual, is it not ever so slightly odd that she is still his girlfriend at all, never mind that she is prominent in the campaign to clear his name?

But that is a mere trifle compared to the fact that that campaign is being bankrolled by her father!

This whole business is an insight into a world in which the rules are totally different from those which would be recognisable to anyone else.