Paedophilia within the game/City launch redress scheme

[Centurions]

I'm staggered that Blackpool FC has not been included in the list of "guilty" clubs.

They are named as are many others.

 

[Centurions]

Dan Roan or not, can we not make this particular thread a rant about media bias. There's no points to be won here.

 

[Zabbasbeard]

The negligence of the Swales regime, the FA and other clubs is shameful and unforgivable.

City's current board is taking responsibility for their negligence. Everyone else needs to do the same. This must not happen again.

 

[Pingu the Penguin]

Think at times like this we should expect a hammering from the media, and for once it's justified.

Shameful from Swales and his cronies and it is a stain on our club at that time which will never be removed to my mind.

Totally agree

 

[Pingu the Penguin]

Typical of our disgusting media. Totally missing/ignoring the point of the story in favour of gaining clicks

Clear and organised

 

[Pingu the Penguin]

just look at various videos investigating the going ons with Celtic etc.

We just simply didn't have the safeguarding in place for the youngsters back then.

I watched that Celtic programme. It was well known what was happening, everyone knew it was wrong, but it was inconvenient to tackle it reputationally. You don’t need modern safeguarding policies to do the right thing. They didnt

 

[OntarioBlue]

With that said, proud of the way the current ownership has reacted for the victims.

Everything about the Club under its current ownership and management is abolutely top class. Regrettably the same can not be said for Swales. That was a dark time in our history.

 

[hammocity]

Probably because it was 51 years ago and the safeguards in place today that we take for granted just weren't there. I suspect also that the clubs hierarchy didn't want to associate themselves with such tawdry matters and didnt want to raise awareness by any form of suspension although, perhaps he was interviewed and strenuously and plausibly denied it, its hard to know exactly what went on as so much time has passed. These dirty bastards only got away with what they did as other people were either negligently or apathetically enabling. It should now be time for those people, however old or even passed, to pay the piper.
I'm glad the club has taken what action it can although the wrongs can never be righted.

It was around the same time when I started senior school (Hartshead in Ashton) and the music teacher was nicknamed "Bummer Turner" by all the kids, he used to take the under privileged children back to his house, feed them, give them money and abuse them, all the kids knew, It's impossible the other teachers didn't. I remember "Mr Turner is a puff" being written on the English blackboard, we weren't aware of what a paedophile was in those days. Nothing was ever done about him.

The amount of abuse towards kids in those days must have been a lot worse then than it is now, there's no punishment severe enough for these fuckers and I'm gutted my club has been implicated but fair play to our current owners. I can't help thinking the city hating media will be loving it though without any sympathy towards the victims.

 

[pirate]

There was a lot of it about in the 70's and 80's.

One of my school PE teachers was found guilty of molesting members of the volleyball team in the mid 80's.
Another of the PE teachers got the sack for beating the shit out of the offender before he was arrested.
He was reinstated when the parents and teachers protested

 

[KPXBLN]

Dan Roan or not, can we not make this particular thread a rant about media bias. There's no points to be won here.

The report into abuse at City by Jane Mulcahy QC, which the club itself commissioned, describes City's response to the allegations at the time they were raised, as "wholly inadequate". That's what the clubs own report is saying. The club has rightly apologised, to its credit, on behalf of the old regime, so we can't complain when those criticisms - which the club itself is making too - are repeated in the media. Given how freely accusations of a 'victim' mentality are chucked around about fans of certain other clubs on this forum, I think it's especially important that when we discuss this issue we recognise that the victims are not the club, or City fans in 2021, but the kids who were abused.