The police investigation into Thomas Partey on five counts of rape and one counting of sexual attack, with regard to three separate women, has been one of the open secrets of football for exactly three years.
He was first arrested in July 2022. The law of this country had saved its anonymity, but you should hide under a rock to work in the industry and not know.
Although he denies the charges against him, there is a prosecution that must be broadcast. The most fleeting knowledge of our legal system tells you that since 2022 there had been the possibility that the football player could eventually be charged.
In anticipation of every acquittal, the idea that our children draw his name from one of Topps' Packs trade cards would be very unwelcome.
It goes without saying that such an acquittal is that a player with five charges of rape may not be promoted or celebrated. But Parey has made a collector's item.
On Tuesday we discovered that Pedey, the door of Arsenal shown in June days in June before the Metropolitan Police will appear to him for Westminster Magistrates on August 5, on one of their official Premier League trading cards for the 2025-26 season.
Prepare for the TOPPS communication team that is now going in overdrive -it insists that the players list for the new season of TOPPS cards was completed in May, when Arsenal still negotiated a potentially new contract with Pinterey. That print and production were packed before it was charged. Nothing to see here.
The indigestible truth is that football has legitimized legitimized party all the time, in a way that no other industry would have done.
Innocent until he has been guilty, certainly, yes, but with such serious violations that are being investigated, a suspension would be inevitable in another industry. Perhaps on full wage, which in the case of Parey was £ 200,000 a week.
Or maybe without wages. Most men who work in an industry that brought them into contact with women would expect to be from the building if such allegations are confronted.
However, we are talking about football, and it has been for Peidey as usual. He was arrested on July 4, 2022, released on bail and played 12 days later in a friendly against Everton in the US. In the course of the first season after his arrest, Mikel Arteta used him for 2,694 minutes in 40 games, important enough for the field and good for the opening goal in a derby in North Londs against Tottenham.
Arsenal has gone so far that the use of his use in the trading packages and even this week, Arteta, said that he was '100 percent' that the club followed the right processes when dealing with his former midfielder. “There are many legal issues that are very complicated, so I can't comment on that.”
Football, lost in his parallel universe and self -justification, is blind to reality and optics. The fact that the appearance of the image of our sons and daughters is quickly ignoring the image at any time is flat