Dissagree with this bit, if he is sacked they wont have to pay him anything! be hard to argue on his side other than "it was taken out of context" he said it, over the top yes....but the bit that worries me, is if they want to save money by releasing without come back they can now. He has given them the excuse to do it.
I understand where you are coming from.
However Deegan has never explained what he actually meant. Now the club have taken that action I would imagine he will have a lawyer on the case working with him preparing his explanation. Whatever he actually meant I would imagine his lawyer will know exactly what explanation he needs to give to ensure that if the club fire him it will be an unfair dismissal.
Secondly if he gives an intelligent enough answer and the club sack him. I would guess that he may argue by the clubs reaction in sacking him they are suggesting that his comments brought the club into disrepute.
For this to be the case they would have to be saying that his commments were supportive of a terrorist organisation. If he succesfully shows that his comments were not then I think he could sue the club for unfair dismissal and deflamation of his character. He would say that he will forever be known as someone who supports terrorism as this is what he was sacked for. You can imagine the money he would get out of SISU for that one. I would imagine the legal team for SISU would, due to legal insurance would be footing the legal costs would be advising SISU to do the suspension.
Maybe try and not pay his wage for the 2 weeks (however if he fights that back down)
Then say he has been warned about using social media and that will be the end of it.
I agree with the comments on here that he should be asked to donate to a charity as well as the public apology, it would be a good learning curve and send a message to some of the other players as well. It would be nice if he publically explained what his views are on terrorism it may quickly bring a halt to a lot of this
