Miguel Sanchez Posted November 25, 2016 Share Posted November 25, 2016 (edited) I'm a bit surprised that there's not been a thread anywhere on this, but an assortment of former players down south have been coming forward in the past few weeks about how widespread child abuse was in football: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/38090926 I'm hesitant to add "in their time" on the end of that given what we've seen in the past when victims of abuse - against an individual or individuals - start to come forward. What I find somewhat unusual about this Bennell character at Crewe is how he was convicted at the time and there are only now more people coming forward saying they were abused by him. It's not like a Savile where everyone comes forward when he's gone and he's never brought to justice, this guy was. Either way, horrible stuff. Edited December 8, 2016 by Miguel Sanchez 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Kincardine Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 (edited) These things are tragic and those who abuse weans should face the full weight of the law. This is all I'll say on the subject. Edited November 26, 2016 by The_Kincardine -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christophe Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 2 hours ago, The_Kincardine said: These things are tragic and those who abuse weans should face the full weight of the law. This is all I'll say on the subject. Cheers for gracing us with your completely obvious yet passive aggressive comment on the matter (you can almost taste the smarm in the final sentence) you absolute tit. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invergowrie arab Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 14 hours ago, The_Kincardine said: These things are tragic and those who abuse weans should face the full weight of the law. This is all I'll say on the subject. Any chance you could restrict the rest of your input to threads to one post glib truisms? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey Tennis Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 To be honest, I suppose it's no great surprise that there's a history of this. It emerged as an issue at Celtic from way back and as Nevin observed, football probably did represent an environment ripe for this stuff, during a period that seemed to enable it. I saw a tabloid headline today about Robbie Savage suggesting that there might be thousands of victims. I've no idea about whether that's an accurate estimate or not, but either way, it's a horrible story and it's impossible not to be moved by the distress of some of the ex-players talking about it yesterday. What it surely does, is move things away from this representing fertile ground for jovial supporter taunting. It sometimes seems daft these days, that full disclosure is needed in order to coach a bunch of kids in front of their parents. It's not though; the alternative is worse. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted November 27, 2016 Share Posted November 27, 2016 This Bennell guy sounds an absolute nightmare. It also sounds like there were concerns raised about his behaviour on several occasions before he was convicted. These things were dealt with very differently in the past and you'd hope that a coach who behaves in the way Bennell did wouldn't be able to get access to children today.Guardian article on the case - https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/nov/26/barry-bennell-victims-football-paedophile-interviews?CMP=share_btn_tw 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacDuffman Posted November 28, 2016 Share Posted November 28, 2016 (edited) http://news.sky.com/story/paedophile-football-coach-barry-bennell-in-hospital-10675908 Oh dear, how sad, never mind Edited November 28, 2016 by MacDuffman 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyrshireTon Posted November 28, 2016 Share Posted November 28, 2016 "A welfare incident" - I'm guessing that's meaning he's tried to top himself. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bernardblack Posted November 28, 2016 Share Posted November 28, 2016 Only just read on twitter that he used to coach Gary Speed 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogmc Posted November 28, 2016 Share Posted November 28, 2016 Only just read on twitter that he used to coach Gary Speed [emoji20] Christ.....[emoji54] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted November 28, 2016 Share Posted November 28, 2016 Eric Bristow has had his say on the story 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alert Mongoose Posted November 28, 2016 Share Posted November 28, 2016 Eric Bristow has had his say on the story 'MBE'.Shitting christ. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itzdrk Posted November 28, 2016 Share Posted November 28, 2016 Did he hose them in the shower? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1320Lichtie Posted November 28, 2016 Share Posted November 28, 2016 Darts players are proper men Horrendously overweight sweaty stinking losers who spend their life sitting in a pub = proper men. What a total c**t he's made of himself. Eta: and he seems to be digging an even deeper hole for himself, as if the homophobia and having a go at victims of child abuse weren't enough. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Simao Posted November 28, 2016 Share Posted November 28, 2016 As you were lads, it was all a complete misunderstanding. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Gaines Posted November 28, 2016 Share Posted November 28, 2016 1 minute ago, Miguel Simao said: As you were lads, it was all a complete misunderstanding. Easy mistake to make IMO 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djchapsticks Posted November 28, 2016 Share Posted November 28, 2016 That's toe curling stuff. Sky and PDC have to get him to f**k over this. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedRob72 Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 Jeez that's a bombscare from Bristow, must have been on the sauce![emoji47] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted November 29, 2016 Author Share Posted November 29, 2016 1 minute ago, RedRob72 said: Jeez that's a bombscare from Bristow, must have been on the sauce! Darts. Proper men. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1320Lichtie Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 Darts. Proper men. Thing is a lot of them will genuinely believe it, being fat, eating shite, smoking and drinking pints makes you a real manly mans man. Your stereotypical darts player is a w****r. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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