:dry: According to Andrew Simpson at the Northwich Guardian, Witton’s former player Shaun Tuck has been banned by the Football Association until next year. See link…
Bloody ridiculous in my opinion, he served a prison sentence which was harsh, yes what he did on that day was wrong but hes been punished by the law!
If the FA weren’t happy then why have they acted so late? Hes been playing all season for several clubs so why didnt they ban him when he was released? ?
Who cares? Is it just me who is bored shitless of hearing about Shaun Tuck? He doesn’t play for Witton anymore, so why this has been published in a way that associates him with Witton is one insulting and two again dragging all this boring shit up again!!! Poor show in my opinion…
Simmo also retweeted this http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/city-footballer-jailed-sending-anti-muslim-7067656
OK, a HUGE amount has been said on Tuck-gate over the course of this season.
We made a concerted effort to stay well away from it on the Podcast this week.
Never should 1 individual have been allowed to cause so much damage to our football club. But hey ho, we live and learn.
The crux of this issue was that some of us thought what was best for Witton Albion was to be well clear of this particular player, whilst some of us believed that we should retain the player/re-sign the player etc etc. Both groups felt what they believed to be right was in the best interests of Witton. Which is fair enough, we all love our club.
The above article posted by Woody would suggest that the club 100% made the right decision in parting company with ST, and every single Wittoner should today be breathing a massive sigh of relief that we aren’t having to spend a second successive summer trying to deal with the fall out from another police/FA/media sh1t storm.
What would be best now - although i’m sure it wont happen - is that everybody involved with WAFC forgot about ST and went back to putting all of their efforts into our club. Every time Tuck gets dragged through the media, unfortunately so does Witton. We really need to try and stop that asap - it will hurt us. Community/media/commercial. It all adds up.
Unfortunately ST has some views which most people in the modern world consider to be offensive. But that’s his issue and not ours.
I have a degree of sympathy for those that have previously defended him, as he has let them down as much as he has let himself and Warrington Town down.
So much damage has been done by this, can we please close the book on this sorry affair and go back to supporting the football club which we all love?
We cannot afford another season like the one we have just had.
Let’s put it behind us and all have a beer at the Beer Festival in a few weeks…
Its time to start focusing on Witton Albion Football Club again in my opinion, everything else is just an unwanted distraction.
UTA.
Thursday night is quiz night.
Be great to see it packed with all the people on both sides who were there after the Frickley Where’s Wally game, before it all went tits up.
I will be there UTA
Well said Robbo and as you say “Enough said”
WHS.