Rubbish , all of the london centric media don't know were Sheffield is or have a stand named after her .
Not all perhaps true. I know some journalists and they know where Sheffield is and they did cover the naming of the stand.
Of course Ched Evans should and is allowed to play professional football as he has done his time. However with a lot of professionals (and potential professionals) desperate for a chance to play who don't have a criminal record, what would most teams do? Pick the players who plays or the convicted criminal who plays? Especially as he isn't in the Messi/David Batty class.
If you don't understand why teams don't want bad publicity have a look at a news paper and read it from the back page. Now do you see how big football is? Teams want to play on "community", "family friendly" etc. This doesn't always extend to the subtleties of second chances unless it is for certain types of problem like gambling or drink addiction. I think these are, quite rightly, seen as lesser problems than rape.
As for football fans all being racist and sexist........you should get to a game and you will hear a range of views and happily for me mostly civilised.