Adam Johnson starts football team in prison.

Former Premier League footballer Adam Johnson has reportedly started up a prison football team which includes other sex offenders.

The team at the Category C Moorland Prison will be trained by Johnson, who wants them to wear Sunderland shirt during games, according to the Star.

The prison in Doncaster has a football pitch among sporting facilities.

‘Johnson is delighted to be playing football again, although he’s not that happy that his team is going to be made up of paedos and perverts,’ a source told the Star on Sunday.

‘Football is his life. He has been told to get a team trained up ready to play against other wings in the prison.

‘Some of the matches will be a bit fruity because sex offenders are probably the most hated inmates in the prison. The team are training a couple of times week but he thinks they should be training every day.’

Johnson was jailed for six years after admitting grooming and sexual activity with a 15-year-old girl and being found guilty of a further count sexual activity with a child.

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