Damocles said:
It was absolutely not consensual. People under the Age of Consent are not able to give consent, no matter what they say. That's sort of the point.
It is, but as others are speculating, if she was dressed to look over age (pretty easy these days), and was somewhere that she legally shouldn't have been, and was after a picking up a "footballer", then its a different issue. Who knows maybe she's bragged to her mates at school, and her parents have got wind of it, and shopped him. Its highly unlikely he will have asked for proof of ID if on a night out.
Until we know the circumstances, likely to be a while if he's charged, then we really shouldn't be accusing him of rape, its currently "on suspicion of sex with a 15 year old girl", and as yet he's not been charged with anything.
There's certainly a shit storm coming his way, either way now though.