According to the latest available figures, 294 suspects had been identified since Woodward’s interview in the Guardian in November 2016 instigated what the Football Association’s chairman, Greg Clarke, has described as the worst scandal he can remember in the sport. A total of 839 alleged victims had come forward by late-December 2017, with 2,094 incidents reported and 334 different clubs named.
Personally I could not give two fucks about City with this. This is far more serious than our football club, as much as I love City I would rather we were closed down and get the real truth out so lads could maybe get some relief from the horrors inflicted upon them
I lived close to Bennell, my mum and his mum were friends. Toffee Balls from here lived round the corner from him (if he still posts I will leave his thoughts for him to post) We played football with his younger brother. His older brother was a **** who murdered two girls, one was with my Aunty the night he did the first girl and the coward hung himself. His mum had to move, she told my mum she had tried really hard to bring her boys up properly. She is a victim of the bastard too. Hounded out of her home, had to get a new identity and move on. Not seen the younger brother for years, maybe he has done the same. Last time I saw him was over 20 years ago and he had a pub in Worsley.
My mate was coached by Bennell and drank himself to death aged 29. He never spoke about it, but it makes sense now. The bastard had reduced a decent very talented young footballer into a shell of himself. A fair number of lads from my area where involved with Bennell. He was well known in our area. I remember as a kid my mum crossing the road and telling me to avoid him, he was not a nice man she said.
I'm angry this morning, I'm not a violent man at all, but I could quite easily disembowel the **** and have no regrets at all.
Can't argue with this. I may have been more concerned with reputational damage on the club and impact this could have on our owner, as the club is used as a vehicle for promoting Abu Dhabi.
However my brother played for Blue Star and we both attended regular training sessions at Platt Lane in the 80s. I was also at Nova, another club with links to a now dead pervert. There but for the grace of God, somehow I wonder how we both made it through. The victims come first.
One was off Kingsway and the other in Bramhall. I did see a news report in the MEN at one point about the Kingsway murder. It was late 60s I think. They were related but I think it was Bennells cousin rather than brother..Toffee Balls knows more about it than me. It was a long time ago and I maybe a little mixed up about it. I remember the murderer when he was released, he was back in Cheadle before he did the second girl. He sent chills down my spine. I assume he was staying at the Bennell home. If he was the cousin rather than the brother then that's maybe why the press haven't picked up on it.His older brother killed two girls? Surprised the media haven't highlighted this - or maybe they have and I just missed it. What scumbags.
Four of his victims are being intervied on TV now. He said Bennell abused him & another boy on the pitch at Maine Road behind the North Stand goals.Personally I could not give two fucks about City with this. This is far more serious than our football club, as much as I love City I would rather we were closed down and get the real truth out so lads could maybe get some relief from the horrors inflicted upon them
I lived close to Bennell, my mum and his mum were friends. Toffee Balls from here lived round the corner from him (if he still posts I will leave his thoughts for him to post) We played football with his younger brother. His older brother was a **** who murdered two girls, one was with my Aunty the night he did the first girl and the coward hung himself. His mum had to move, she told my mum she had tried really hard to bring her boys up properly. She is a victim of the bastard too. Hounded out of her home, had to get a new identity and move on. Not seen the younger brother for years, maybe he has done the same. Last time I saw him was over 20 years ago and he had a pub in Worsley.
My mate was coached by Bennell and drank himself to death aged 29. He never spoke about it, but it makes sense now. The bastard had reduced a decent very talented young footballer into a shell of himself. A fair number of lads from my area where involved with Bennell. He was well known in our area. I remember as a kid my mum crossing the road and telling me to avoid him, he was not a nice man she said.
I'm angry this morning, I'm not a violent man at all, but I could quite easily disembowel the **** and have no regrets at all.
One was off Kingsway and the other in Bramhall. I did see a news report in the MEN at one point about the Kingsway murder. It was late 60s I think. They were related but I think it was Bennells cousin rather than brother..Toffee Balls knows more about it than me. It was a long time ago and I maybe a little mixed up about it. I remember the murderer when he was released, he was back in Cheadle before he did the second girl. He sent chills down my spine. I assume he was staying at the Bennell home. If he was the cousin rather than the brother then that's maybe why the press haven't picked up on it.
Couldn't agree more, my one issue is I also don't think it's acceptable to try to hide behind... everyone seemed to be doing it(not that I'm suggesting you are using that defence).This is a far bigger issue than Manchester City alone, and it seems inappropriate to be talking about how the media are portraying the club. That's almost an irrelevance at the moment. Surely the most important issue by far is the victims, and ensuring that they get justice, as well as appropriate counselling, support and compensation. If it emerges that people at the club ignored warnings or even sought to cover them up, then they must be held to account, however uncomfortable it may be.
The scary thing is that this appears to only be the tip of the iceberg, according to this:
Bennell is the most prolific offender to have been charged, so far at least, but this is clearly a problem that goes far beyond the reach of one club. It suggests almost systematic abuse of young boys within football in the 70s and 80s, and if that's the case then questions must be asked at the very top level as to how this went uncovered for so long.
That particular profession has been getting away with that for centuries.and priests.
Couldn't agree more, my one issue is I also don't think it's acceptable to try to hide behind... everyone seemed to be doing it(not that I'm suggesting you are using that defence).
The club needs to try to do what it can, sadly it seems like it will be too late for some, but City should lead the way with regards to fixing this
The FA can't sweep anything under the carpet now, there are too many police investigations going on into this scandal.I feel for the poor guys who aren't gonna get justice. I fear that now a high profile case with a high profile club has happened, the FA will sweep all the rest og this under the carpet. I hope I'm wrong.
P.s. the BBC want suing. Bennell never worked for Manchester city. Ever.
This reminds me a little of when I lived in the US my wife had to go to a Workman's Compensation Court and one of the other cases was a cleaner who had fallen and broken her leg in the parking lot of an office block she cleaned(this was her only assignment). She claimed that it was a workplace injury because she was in the company parking lot and she was going in to clean the offices, the agency that she worked for said that because she worked for the agency and not the company she was in the parking lot of, it wasn't. In the end the court(rightly in my view)ruled that while she didn't work directly for the company they took on an assumed level of responsibility, as it not unreasonable for her to assume she would not be placed in danger even though she was an agency worker.I feel for the poor guys who aren't gonna get justice. I fear that now a high profile case with a high profile club has happened, the FA will sweep all the rest og this under the carpet. I hope I'm wrong.
P.s. the BBC want suing. Bennell never worked for Manchester city. Ever.
I think you need to be logged in to read that link Petrusha.
COUSIN WAS A RAPIST AND MURDERER
Bennell's cousin was a notorious sex killer who raped and murdered two women.
Ronnie Bennell hanged himself in his prison cell before he could face trial for his second killing.
Ronnie was 18 when he raped and killed Lynda Stewart in Burnage, Manchester in November 1970.
She was seven months' pregnant and suffered massive head injuries. Ronnie beat her to death with his bare hands and raped her as she lay unconscious.
He was found guilty and given a life sentence in 1971 but spent just 12 years behind bars.
He married in June 1989 but eight months after the wedding, he raped and murdered mum of three Pamela Noone, 42, in Bramhall, near Stockport.
Like the first victim, she was beaten unconscious before being raped.