ah interesting.. thought it was unprofessional Conduct due to his tweets ?

"It was a Team effort, I guess it took all players working together to lose this one"

Reminds me of this:

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'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Have they found any dead bodies yet?

That was it. Couldn't remember the name.

Red and Blue Army!

He spoke about going drinking with his mates in the South, then driving up North for training and matches. Often late. Plus he didn't like pigeon fanciers, which was probably a deal breaker.

Red and Blue Army!

I have no time for genuine racism, but from looking at his tweets they insulted numerous groups and the clear intention was just to shock and be juvenile rather than any kind of hatred or dislike of anyone.

Considering his age, and the time that's passed I'd say that the onus is on others (rather than him) to prove that he still engages in such behaviour, and that shouldn't be difficult to ascertain. I get why an apology is important in the context of a team sport especially, but think it should be viewed more as embarrassing than character or career defining. If people are going to behave in ways that they later regret I'd say that 18 is a common age to do so. Ten years later they're often not the same person.

Ten years ago, and often even now I don't think people truly understand the gravity of public statements and social media, so certainly in that regard education wouldn't go amiss. But we should learn to separate genuine and unhelpful prejudices from sh!t teenage jokes. They're not the same thing.

Some have stated that there have been other issues with his conduct, so maybe there's more to this, but I don't think any conclusions should be drawn on the basis on tweets made a decade ago. It seems absurd to hold people to account for these things as if they said them yesterday. Should we not instead be pleased that he apparently stopped behaving in such a way ten years back?