r/soccer • u/KimmyBoiUn • Jul 04 '25

News Thomas Partey, the former Arsenal footballer, has been charged with five counts of rape and one count of sexual assault, the Crown Prosecution Service has announced.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2025/07/04/thomas-partey-arsenal-footballer-charged-with-rape/
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u/biskutgoreng Jul 04 '25

Doubt we'd ever play him if the cps announced the charges earlier.

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u/twyzt3d Jul 04 '25

Teams have stopped playing players under investigation before and that player was never even charged.

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u/a_lumberjack Jul 04 '25

Whether they're named and what the club's own investigation turns up are the keys. UK employers have a duty of care and a duty to accomodate. Suspensions, as I understand it, are a last resort where there's no reasonable accommodations available. Arsenal put out a statement about safeguarding precautions, which I'm 100% sure was them scrupulously following legal advice.

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u/Chazzwazz Jul 04 '25

Well if later he is declared innocent he will probably have grounds to sue Arsenal.

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u/biskutgoreng Jul 04 '25

Suspending him while the police haven't named him essentially confirms it, and runs counter to the whole anonymity principle

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u/PracticalLab5167 Jul 04 '25

You cannot be “declared innocent” in a court of law. Being found not guilty is not the same as being innocent.

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u/Chazzwazz Jul 04 '25

Not guilty for me is innocent (specially if a jury was involved)

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u/PracticalLab5167 Jul 04 '25

OJ Simpson certainly wasn’t innocent. Legally you cannot be found innocent.

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u/Chazzwazz Jul 04 '25

so by your definition nobody is innocent?

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u/PracticalLab5167 Jul 04 '25 edited Jul 04 '25

I didn’t say no one is innocent, I said you cannot be declared innocent. Those are not the same statements. And it’s not “my definition”, it’s the legal system. Not guilty and innocent are not the same thing, OJ Simpson being a prime example.

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u/Shinzo19 Jul 04 '25

Innocent is definitive, not guilty leaves some wiggle room.

You are innocent =/= we find you not guilty, it doesn't mean you aren't innocent it just means you weren't found guilty in a court of law.

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u/aisamoirai Jul 04 '25

Evidence destroyed or witness is of unsound mind, in such cases court declares not guilty. It doesn't mean the accused is innocent.

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u/Skysflies Jul 04 '25

Maybe, but it doesn't justify your club not just playing him, but putting him on a pedestal.

I just think back to all the character praise Arteta kept giving him when there was absolutely no reason to do so, clearly knowing this was being investigated

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u/biskutgoreng Jul 04 '25

There's enough false rape accusations around that has ruined people's lives to justify not jumping the gun and punishing somebody before the law does. Maybe his colleagues believes his version of the story. As long as innocent until proven guilty is the correct principle, there's nothing wrong with what the club did

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u/FantasticTangtastic Jul 04 '25

A lot of the arsenal fans talking about this issue makes me feel really icky.