Evans on strike on comeback

Ched Evans made his return to football after scoring in Chesterfield’s 3-0 friendly win at Ilkeston on Saturday.

The 27-year-old forward joined the Spireites on a 12month deal in June just months before he faces a retrial charged with rape.

He played 59 minutes of the League One club’s victory, netting in the 53rd minute, having also set up Ritchie Humphreys’ opener.

Former Manchester City youngster Evans will go on trial on October 4 charged with raping a woman in May 2011. He has pleaded not guilty.

Evans was jailed and sentenced for five years in 2012, being released in 2014, for raping a 19year-old woman but the Court of Appeal quashed his conviction in April.