Mark Lawrenson: "I understand it is too late for the FA to intervene in this case but, there should be something like a fit and proper persons test, absolutely set down indicating whether or not you can go anywhere near someone like Ched Evans until everything has been resolved.

"It has become a circus. Sometimes, from reading everything this week, you are actually almost thinking is he a victim as well? It is just madness.

"It is all reason for the FA to come out with the guidelines. The FA has been conspicuous by their absence."

Martin Keown: "It is a very toxic subject. At the moment, the situation is he has come back a little too soon. It has not been handled in nearly the right way and I think the public have decided they don't want him back.

"There is a court process and he would be better served waiting until the end of that before thinking of coming back into the game."