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3rd March 2016
07:28pm GMT

"As far as I know, Adam was pleading not guilty all the way through from the day I arrived," the 61 year old said.
"Obviously this incident had happened well before I got here. The information to me was that he was pleading not guilty to all charges, and that was why we continued to let him train and play for us." "We were all at the football club stunned and shocked the day before the trial started when we heard a guilty plea come out. I was sat at home when it came on the news, and I was just gobsmacked because as far as we were concerned, it was going to be not guilty on all charges."The Sunderland manager also said there was no sympathy for the convicted 28 year old from anyone at the club. "He's gone through the process, and the process has proven that he's guilty. Now he has to serve his sentence, and there’s not a lot of sympathy here for Adam Johnson. There's no doubt about that."
"I'm hugely disappointed on Adam Johnson, and what has happened. But my sympathies don't lie with him, they lie with the victim and the family.""Now the judgement has been made, we all feel extremely let down by what has happened and by what Adam has done."
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