Non-league teams play quite a lot of "proper" football. It's odd really - leagues one and two play sh*t and then Conference Premier/North/South play decent footy.
Can't make any sort of judgement without knowing exactly what he did. "Charges dropped" and "found innocent" are two different things, so the chances are he deserves it.
It picks up once they stop with the cutscene-every-3-minutes bullsh*t.
If you've played MGS1 then it's well seeing all of Act 4 at least, and if you get that far it's only about 40 minutes more gameplay before you get to the ending.