How big a deal is the Adam Johnson verdict? Well, it’s a big deal in that Johnson, the one-time top scorer for a bottom-of-the-table Premier League team, has played his last match that doesn’t take place in a prison rec yard.
Johnson was found guilty today in an English court of one count of illegal touching of a child under the age of 16, and acquitted of another charge. He’ll be sentenced in two to three weeks. And so ends this ugly saga — in the courtroom, at any rate. For the girl, her anguish may be only beginning.