Simon Jordan reacts as West Ham United defender Kurt Zouma pleads guilty in court
Simon Jordan says Kurt Zouma will ‘suffer’ after pleading guilty to kicking and slapping his cat, but believes the situation has now run it’s course and will be forgotten about.
Zouma was filmed kicking and slapping his pet cat back in February and has faced criminal charges ever since, with the first day of his trial taking place today [May 24th].
But after news emerged that he had pleaded guilty, with sentencing adjourned until June 1st, Jordan told talkSPORT [May 24, 11:07] that he expects the player will take any consequences on the chin and everyone will move on once again.
“I don’t think he needed to admit guilt, I think the evidence was before everyone’s eyes,” he said.
“It would have been ridiculous to have mad some sort of defence or mitigation in his defence. ‘The cat was irritating me’ or ‘the cat had been cruel to me,’ what was his defence? There was no defence, so he had to do what he had to do.
“Now he will suffer whatever comes up. I doubt he will go to prison if that’s what people are waiting for. I doubt that will happen and people will move on. They’ve moved on.
“The big outcry about whether he should play in the game directly after the incident fell on deaf ears at West Ham and he’s been lauded and plauded as being a player of significant merit for the club. I think it’s run it’s course, this situation.
“It will pop up in the media again now of course because he’s been sanctioned or whatever the terminology is, legally, and life will move on.”
Inevitable
None of this is real news, considering that Zouma was filmed and immediately apologised when the footage came out.
The club always said he was in the wrong and said they would work to help him, while the rest of the world wanted his head on a stick.
He was always going to plead guilty, because there was absolutely no point trying to fight it and that would be the wrong thing to do anyway, but as Jordan stated everyone had already moved on.
He will be hit with some form of punishment and then will get back to being the club’s best defender and that’s the end of it. This is a story that has gone on long enough now.
Zouma did wrong, he will be punished for it appropriately, he has admitted guilt and apologised and now it is time for everyone to simply move on.
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