The women who were allegedly "raped" were filmed laughing and joking just hours after the incident happened. They are getting £60,000 for the story from an english newspaper (probably the Sun) because they are broke.
The club's sponsors, Alliance and Leicester, are threatening to drop their deal with the club at the end of the season. The deal is supposed to run out in 2005, but the company feels that this incident is giving them a bad name.