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Let me see if I would be happy to watch that horrible **** play at W12.
Wigan Athletic striker Marlon King will go to jail for 18 months for groping a young woman in a nightclub and then breaking her nose after she spurned his "disgusting" advances.
Latics chairman Dave Whelan confirmed that the club has sacked the £1m-a-year player.
'He is sacked completely,' Whelan told Sky Sports News. 'Finished.
'We have to follow the rules and regulations, which means we will have to give him 14 days notice that his contract will be cancelled.
'We will not tolerate football players who get sent to jail for 18 months. As far as we are concerned, he is finished with football at Wigan Athletic.
'We tell our players they have got to have standards and set standards, particularly in their private lives.
'I sat him down at the start of the season and personally told him this was the last chance for him to make it as a professional footballer.
'To be fair to him, he worked harder in training. I didn't even know anything about this case till last week.'
Celebrity haunt: The court heart how King attacked the 20-year-old woman at the Soho Revue Bar in London last December
The Jamaica international, who was celebrating both his wife's pregnancy and scoring a winning goal hours earlier, was repeatedly "cold-shouldered" by women revellers in London's packed Soho Revue Bar last December.
When a slightly-built university student became the latest to recoil from his touch, he lost his temper and in an outburst of "completely gratuitous violence" lashed out, "smashing" her to the floor.
His single clenched fist blow was so powerful that two other revellers - one of them holding on to his arm - were also sent flying.
While bouncers moved in to restrain the muscular £5million striker, friends rushed to the aid of his victim.
As she was helped to her feet, blood poured from her shattered nose, London's Southwark Crown Court heard.
The 29-year-old, from Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, claimed he was a victim of "mistaken identity".
But after hearing overwhelming evidence from a string of witnesses, including a football coach who insisted he was the assailant, the jury decided he was lying.
He was unanimously convicted of sexually assaulting the 20-year-old and causing actual bodily harm.
A statement on the Wigan Athletic confirmed his sacking and said that King deserved his punishment.
'Although the club was aware of the incident at the time, it was not aware of the severity, and therefore believe that the sentence received is justification for the player's actions,' it read.
That is not fair as he has done his time and is now free to rebuild his life, just like everyone else is when they are released from prison. As he is a footballer, it is fair to say he will pitch up somewhere, I just hope it aint W12.
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