The assault was serious but Gradi told Sheldon he ‘did not consider a person putting their hands down another’s trousers to be an assault’. Sheldon told Gradi it was. The episode ‘didn’t seem to matter too much’, Gradi told Sheldon. ‘There was a relationship of some sort between the two,’ Hamilton told Sheldon. Hughes told FA director of public affairs David Davies: ‘There are so many areas where we would have to be rather evasive.’ David Davies agreed.

Source: Daily Mail March 17, 2021 22:32 UTC