allied_assault
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I think we will give them problems and therefore going for a 2-1 win for Boro.
If we play like we did against Preston (how we lost that one I will never know) - we should do ok.
I was thinking the same thing so looked into it a little. He has been sentenced 1 year In prison and 1 year suspended but apparently the prisons are too full in Belgium so he is allowed free whilst he appeals. I can't see how the FA have allowed him to play, being convicted of a serious assault(him and his brother fractured a blokes skull with a rock)is surely against the conduct rules of the FA. It made me think of the Bola issue a few years ago about a tweet he made when he was 14, this is surely a lot more serious than A kid making an offensive tweet 9 years previously.Although I don't confess to know much about the Belgian legal system(other than they imprison less people than we do), I'm surprised his club feels it's appropriate to play him having been convicted of causing a pretty serious injury by all accounts. Couldn't see it happening if a footballer was convicted of GBH and awaiting sentence in an English/Welsh court (closest equivalent I can think of)