Male footballer who nutted Scotland Women's star joins new club and fans demand action

dailystar.co.uk:

Scottish football team is being lobbied by local residents to terminate the contract of convicted domestic abuser Paul Tansey.Whitehill Welfare FC, a small club situated in the small village of Rosewell, Midlothian, have provoked fury from their community after they discreetly signed Tansey, three months after he was sacked by Penicuik Athletic.Tansey subjected Lisa Robertson, a Scottish international who plays for Celtic women, to a 10-month domestic abuse ordeal that included a brutal headbutt.

And the small community of Rosewell has reacted very strongly by launching a petition demanding his contract to be terminated with ‘immediate effect’. Read More: Rangers and Celtic could be freed to leave Scottish league after landmark court ruling The people of Rosewell and the wider Midlothian area do not condone domestic abuse of any form and it is not welcome here amongst this family-oriented community,” a spokesperson for the community said in a statement. “Local football is a wonderful tradition, but a team cannot possibly support a person who has very deliberately physically and emotionally harmed others with lasting consequences.

This community certainly will not."Too often we hear about players convicted of domestic abuse within football, and we will take a stand against it." Tansey appeared before Edinburgh Sheriff Court in May and pleaded guilty to engaging in a course of conduct which was abusive to his partner between July 2020 and May 2021.As well as his horrific headbut, Tansey also regularly checked Robertson’s phone and would routinely accuse her of cheating on him.