Disgraced footballer Adam Johnson has apparently created a prison football team which includes fellow paedophiles.
According to The Daily Star, the former Premier League player has been told he can play football in his free time as long he coaches a side of sex offenders. The side made of low risk inmates from the Category C Moorland Prison will be trained by Johnson, further reports suggest that the ex-Sunderland player wants his jail team to wear the Sunderland kit (!!) It's unconfirmed whether this will actually happen, but I can't imagine Sunderland will be too happy.
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The prison in Doncaster is equipped with a full size football pitch as well as other sporting facilities. As reported by a source, Johnson is brimming with delight to be playing football once again, saying;
"Johnson is delighted to be playing football again, although he's not that happy that his team is going to be made up of paedos and perverts."
The source, telling The Daily Star, continues;
"Football is his life. He has been told to get a team trained up ready to play against other wings in the prison. Some of the matches will be a bit fruity because sex offenders are probably the most hated inmates in the prison. The team are training a couple of times week but he thinks they should be training every day."
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Johnson was handed a six-year prison sentence for sexual activity and grooming a 15-year-old girl at Bradford Crown Court.