I totally agree with you and fuck this guy, but there is some context to his sentence here in the Netherlands:

One legal distinction is that Van de Velde is unlikely to have been convicted of rape had he stood trial in the Netherlands rather than England. In England, sex with a 12-year-old is rape, regardless of the circumstances: an under-16 cannot legally consent. But after he was extradited to the Netherlands, having serving almost a year of his prison sentence, he was released after less than a month. Under Dutch law, his crime was deemed to be the lesser offence of ontucht, sexual acts that violate social-ethical norms.

From https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/30/netherlands-child-rapist-olympics-steven-van-de-velde

The title is actually accurate, those are crazy trains. I love the Hello Kitty one

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And just like that there were no English teams left.

Only watched the penalties. Modric of all people to miss (actually I don't know his penalty record), but in the end it didn't even matter.

Happy to see City out. Hope PSG get eliminated too. Other than that don't really care who wins.

FYI "The Hawks" is a branch of SAPS, the south African police services: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawks_%28South_Africa%29

What's with the down votes? I liked the video, it was very extensive and I think showed a more fair representation of Montreal than apparently many other videos.

Only saw the highlights but City seemed like they struggled to play out of Villa's pressure. Really impressive. Hope Villa can keep it up, and mostly hope City keep dropping points. Fuck them, it's those kinds of clubs that are ruining professional football.

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Four year ban could be the end of his career.

Can recommend a book by Rutger Bregman called Humankind, which explores this topic and has many references you might he interested in.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humankind:_A_Hopeful_History

I wonder what the players and coaching staff think... and their female partners and daughters.

Obviously also men should not want this guy as their colleague, but like these protests show women probably care more.

Ten Hag is married to a woman and has two daughters. Only being supportive of women because you have daughters is stupid, but I do wonder about the conversations they might have.

I would absolutely talk to my husband / father in this situation. And what could Ten Hag say exactly? Morally he has no leg to stand on, for Man United it's purely a financial decision. Greenwood represents a certain value and the club doesn't want to give that up. Ten Hag could make his value for ManU zero by announcing he does not want rapists in his squad and will never play him. The fact he hasn't is really disappointing.

How can you face your wife and daughters while defending a rapist and abuser? I don't know how those two can ever be compatible and I would lose so much respect for anyone who does.

Good, but I'm skeptical about this:

It seems that it will not be an automatic access to all the recordings, but rather hand-picked incidents that caused the most controversy during that weekend’s games.

It says that can change in the future, but if it doesn't then it could be lip service.

In the eredivisie they had it for a little while I believe, but they would do only one or two per weekend. Sometimes they picked situations that were not that interesting just to avoid showing an obvious mistake by the ref elsewhere that they didn't want to air.

Let's hope I'm wrong!