Luke McCormick

[Oddquine]

I do find some difficulties in this. Yes he was convicted. He spent three and a half years in jail but his sentence is not over. He's out on licence and Swindon were asked, and have agreed, to help in his rehabilitation. The thing is, this is the only job he knows so does he earn a living or does the tax payer keep him? It could well be that he trains for now and moves abroad if and when his licence allows.

As for some of the comments that come out of such tragedies. People really need to wake up to life. Many of those who, nowadays, kick the drunk driver when he's down are the same people who think its great to go as fast as they can on the roads. Cause a death through speed and you are just as guilty as the DD.

Rehabilitation doesn't have to mean playing football in the public eye earning first team wages, though. He can earn a living in football by taking coaching certificates during his rehabilitation and doing youth coaching or something less upfront, though probably less profitable.

Anyway, football may be the only job he knows....but it is not the only job he can do, is it?

What would he have done if he had crashed and only injured himself badly enough to not be able to play football, but not badly enough to throw him on the mercy of the welfare state for the rest of his life, as he did to the father of the children he killed?

He's not yet 30........he has time to try many different careers yet. People who have done nothing wrong and have been in the same jobs for 30, 40 and even more years are being obliged to change horses in midstream....what makes it that he is incapable of doing that?

In his place, I'd be keeping low profile, in the certain knowledge that, for as long as I am playing and in the face of the family affected, they are going to get no closure....and no amount of money would be worth that to someone with a vestige of a conscience.

Edited to add..but would someone with a vestige of a conscience, still sitting in prison, have a football agent chasing around trying to get him a place back in football?

Edited May 27, 2012 by Oddquine

[Oddquine]

The question is here, where do you draw the line? There was no outrage on here when ICT signed convicted wife-beater Phil McGuire or what about convicted assaulter Richie Foran? I'm not saying what they did was as bad as McCormick (though McGuire's in-particular was horrendously vicious and supposed done in front of their two children), but where do you draw the line?

If either of the players had killed somebody by their actions....would ICT still have signed them after they got out, do you think?

You have to shake your head at the justification for the signing presented by the chairman of Swindon Town....he has the chance to give something back, to show the tragedies of drink-driving. How is he giving something back OR is showing the tragedies of drink driving by playing first team football? He is just showing that there are no tragedies for the perpetrator just tragedies for the victims. Perpetrators can come out of jail and continue where they left off......victims don't have that luxury.