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Perhaps you remember Chelsea’s reaction when Graham Rix, then the assistant manager to Gianluca Vialli, was sent to prison for a year in 1999 after pleading guilty to two charges of unlawful sex with an underage girl and another of indecent assault? If not, it may surprise you. had a game against Real Mallorca shortly after the court case and, in his programme notes, their chairman Ken Bates made it clear he had “no sympathy” with the 15-year-old victim. Chelsea, he said, “look after their own”, which in this case meant keeping Rix’s job open and putting money into his family’s bank account while the 41-year-old was locked up.

Mendy continued playing for until he was charged in August 2021, at which point he was suspended.



“There have been no charges laid and the player can fulfil his professional commitments including permitted travel,” say Player X’s club.



Player X was arrested last July and then re-arrested for allegedly committing two more attacks on a different woman.


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