Quote ="Budgiezilla"Warrington suspended Gelling when arrested, but then lifted the suspension a few weeks later, why ?'"
It’s a tricky situation for clubs, in a couple of different ways.
Firstly, sport is about on-field competition. By suspending their own player, a club is compromising its own competitiveness. Clubs will almost always act in their own best interests on the field.
Secondly, there’s always the concept of ‘innocent until proven guilty’. Why should someone who has not been convicted of anything be prevented from undertaking their job (unless that is incompatible with the offence they are charged with)?
This is why we need some form of regulation in terms of off-field behaviour. Clubs will almost never suspend their own players when they bring the game into disrepute.
