Every word of John McGlynn’s astonishing David Goodwillie press conference as Raith boss begs for forgiveness

Raith Rovers manager John McGlynn faced the media on Thursday ahead of Sunday’s Scottish Cup clash with Celtic.

The interview, though, was dominated by the fall-out from Raith’s decision to sign striker David Goodwillie, who was declared a rapist after being found guilty in a civil court and ordered, with former team-mate David Robertson, to pay £100,000 in compensation to the victim of the 2011 attack.

These are his words:

Q: IS DAVID GOODWILLIE STILL EMPLOYED BY RAITH ROVERS?

J.McG: At the moment the board is speaking about that. He’s signed a contract with the club so that’s getting dealt with at board level. He’s obviously not training with the team, he won’t participate in playing for the team. That’s where it is right now.

Q: WHAT HAVE THE LAST 10 DAYS BEEN LIKE?

J.McG: It’s been really difficult for everyone involved and we apologise enormously for the distress that we’ve brought to our fans, our sponsors – anyone hurt in any way at all. It was never our intention to do that.

I’ve been at the football club for the best part of nine years in two separate occasions and there is no way that I would have wanted to have brought the last 10 days on the football club.

We’ve been on the front page for the wrong reasons rather than the back page. We apologise for bringing our football club and our supporters into the situation that we find ourselves in.

From a football point of view, I’m tasked with trying to get us to the league above if that’s at all possible.

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