Paedophilia within the game/City launch redress scheme

Dirty Harry said:
Reading that link I can well believe it Marcus .
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I knew about the abuse of certain players before it was made public via my pal. Its sickening.
im on nodding terms with andy woodward as we share a local pub. Lovely lad, but haunted.

gradi himself ... either a matter of time or it will have a similar outcome to saville.
 
Blue Mist said:
I recently asked my now elderly mother. It seems it was not your role/place to question anything about people in authority. It is why priests got away with it for years. A bank manager was almost god. It is something I cannot understand about that generation.
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I think we all had 'that' teacher. Ours was very 'hands on' with the female pupils to the extent that one, particularly well developed, 12 year old slapped him. All the girls were openly wary of him and so it is beyond reason that the other teachers weren't aware of the rumours. Back in the 70's people just looked the other way, kids were routinely disbelieved and abusers knew they had that advantage. Thankfully we have moved on and things, whilst no means perfect (and probably never will be) are at least far more transparent with so many more safeguards in place.
 
Stuuuuuu said:
I don't know if any of you heard it but David White was on Radio 5 about 17:45 tonight, discussing the abuse he experienced as a youth player.
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He was also on the bluemoon podcast speaking on the same subject a couple of years ago.
 
I was at Crewe in the early 90s. Nothing here contradicts my recollections- there were plenty of rumours at the time, although as a local lad I never had cause to stay with Barry or Dario.
 
Dirty Harry said:
Not sure if you've read this, but an interesting read.
www.telegraph.co.uk

FA facing backlash over Dario Gradi after he claimed 'putting hands down' a youngster's trousers was not assault

Plus: Key findings and what must football do now as FA guilty of 'institutional failings' according to review of child sexual abuse scandal
www.telegraph.co.uk www.telegraph.co.uk
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I've just read that and it's interesting. Hard to get my head around the fact a guy that seemed to publicly known to be a nonce was never convicted, allowed to go about his working life as if it was ok, and continue working closely to youth.
 
At Football , at cub scouts, at school, at church, life was a minefield for young boys back in the 70s/80s. One good thing about the new woke PC world is that things are in place now to try to combat paedos and any complaints are now investigated rather than laughed at.
 
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