On Wednesday, five days after being released from prison having served half of a five-year sentence for rape, former footballer Ched Evans released a video statement. In it, he once again insisted that he's not guilty of “that”, and chose instead to focus on repenting his crimes of "infidelity". In the process, he ends up apologising to everyone but the girl he raped.It's impossible to watch the statement and not imagine at least three PR people stood behind the camera, mouthing the words out to him. It's classic image-management-on-a-budget: the dull, glazed-eye delivery; the doting, dutiful girlfriend, holding his arm, occasionally lifting her big eyes in a gesture of forgiveness; the muted black-stripes-with-a-black-tie outfit.
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