Can't face it absent - this is indeed a depressing story and illustrates why feminism still matters.
UK footballers are a rather larger sample than uk pop stars I guess jadey. And unlike other young men they are pursued by large flocks of silly young women who are very easily exploited. Whole tribes of them, I gather, who are on a mission to find out where the team are drinking so that they can join the queue at the door. And then both sexes drink excessively because that is what you do these days. Add to that the fact that the young men have been exposed to rather a lot of porn. And I don't mean girlie mags.
So no surprise that some of the footballers step over the line. (I am not blaming the victims. But if you put a few thousand random young men in the footballers shoes and feed them pints of alcohol etc etc ... what am I saying - it's not the footballers it's a wider picture - the footballers are the ones that get in the papers)