Tonight, news from Liverpool that casts the sanity of Sevco signing Jon Flanagan into doubt.
He appeared in court today down there because he breached his “rehabilitation order”, imposed on him after beating his girlfriend in a public street in December last year.
Remember all that talk that he had accepted guilt, was moving on, and had learned his lesson?
Well, he seems to be paying lip-service to all that at best, and after he missed his last community service order without giving them a reason why – could it be that Sevco needed him that day? – the courts down there have acted, hauled him before the beaks and handed down a fine.
And a stern warning with it.
An article in the Liverpool Echo reads thus; “Magistrates said Flanagan had a responsibility to comply with court orders and it was in his interests to fulfil the appointments.”
Someone at Sevco deciding not to comply with a court order!
Jesus, can you imagine that?
His community service order was continued, and he was fined £2000. If it happens again, one would expect that he’ll face a contempt of court charge. But that shouldn’t bother him, as it will merely place him in the same exalted company as his club’s esteemed chairman, who’s fit and proper person status remains untouched and who can level allegations as he pleases even as he thumbs his nose at the legal establishment.
That club is, as Ian Archer once observed about Rangers, “a permanent embarrassment and an occasional disgrace.”
You could not make this stuff up.