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For nearly 2 years now there have been people in the background contacting adidas. They have been given facts, both in their European headquarters and in America.
That's the intended message starting to get into the media "Children's Charities have accused Scottish Football Clubs of failing to protect young players " This is the start of their PR company manoeuvres to include ALL Football Clubs but as you say mate only one Club and one Club only is associated with sexual abuse of young kids . This is just side swerving tactics to allow them to mix in with the all teams are guilty , not just us routine .
Anything to avoid justice and cheat the victims out of what they are due .
I didn’t know there was ever a newspaper called the National , it must be paper for likeminded folk as that article had no general fairness in it
And not just Adidas either
It never does when it comes to this issue. They can’t be seen to upset their core voters. This is why they will attempt to tie in every club. Even though there is only one club with convictions like mentioned previously.
German newspapers have not been contacted by our group. We have contacted other clubs forums in the past in mainland Europe. This was before the Alex Thomson piece. Also club forums in England were also contacted. A few were apprehensive of getting involved due to legalities which is understandable at the time. Now that the Thomson piece has gone out then it will be worth trying again.
I’m not sure. Maybe someone else could answer that?
Good for you. More power to your elbow.
Well done sir.
When they thought their club was going to be in the firing line they rolled out the lets not upset the victims card. What do they want done to the SFA as punishment. Should it still all be forgotten?
www.thetimes.co.uk
(unts are still trying with all their might to get us involved despite their constant denial, internal investigations and separate entitiesCoach ‘trafficked boys over border’
A former Rangers and Hibernian youth coach trafficked young players across the border so he could abuse them and introduce them to other predators.Gordon Neely, who also coached with Dundee United and Edinburgh youth side Hutchison Vale, faced accusations but was never convicted before he died of c
Coach ‘trafficked boys over border’
Evidence has emerged which suggests a former Rangers and Hibernian youth coach was a prolific abuser
PA
Marc Horne
Tuesday March 17 2020, 12.01am GMT, The Times
A former Rangers and Hibernian youth coach trafficked young players across the border so he could abuse them and introduce them to other predators.
Gordon Neely, who also coached with Dundee United and Edinburgh youth side Hutchison Vale, faced accusations but was never convicted before he died of cancer in 2014, aged 62.
However, new evidence has emerged which suggests he was a prolific abuser who worked with other paedophiles in northwest England.
The Times understands that a number of Neely’s victims have given evidence to the independent review into sexual abuse in Scottish football, whose final report is due within weeks.
One man told how Neely took him and other Hutchison Vale players to a tournament in Stockport, Greater Manchester, in the early 1980s.
“We stayed at a YMCA,” he said. “There was a swimming pool and Neely introduced us to men there who were naked. Why on earth did a guy who lived in Edinburgh organise a tournament 250 miles away down in England? He did that so he could get us away from our families and abuse us.”
Crewe Alexandra were involved in the tournament but the survivor does not recall meeting Barry Bennell, a prolific paedophile who worked as a youth scout for the club.
However, Steve Walters, director of the Offside Trust, a support group for abuse victims, believes Neely and Bennell exchanged grooming tactics.
Both men would terrify young players with ghost stories and “haunted house” pranks before abusing them. Victims of Neely told how he hosted “ghost weekends” at an outdoor retreat centre in Perthshire, where he would encourage boys to go to his room if they were frightened. “The techniques used by Bennell and Neely are too similar for it to be a coincidence,” Mr Walters said.
Police Scotland confirmed last month they were investigating claims that a paedophile network had preyed on young footballers.
It came after the independent review, commissioned by the Scottish FA, received “substantive” new evidence of an organised cross-border abuse ring.
In January The Times published allegations that Bennell and Jim McCafferty, a former Celtic kit man and Celtic Boys Club coach, were part of a group that trafficked young players. Bennell, 66, is serving a 31-year sentence for 50 charges of child sexual abuse, while McCafferty, 74, was jailed last year for molesting young players over 24 years.
One survivor, Malcolm Rodger, 49, has waived his right of anonymity to claim he was abused separately by McCafferty and Bennell after being introduced to them by Bill Kelly, his former coach at the now defunct West Lothian club Uphall Saints.
Kelly, 84, admitted abusing 12 boys over a 22-year period but served just one year in prison in 1987. Another of his victims claimed that Kelly was an associate of Harry Dunn, the former Rangers and Liverpool youth scout, who died before he could stand trial on abuse charges in 2017.
Kelly denies having any connection with Bennell, Dunn or McCafferty.
Coach ‘trafficked boys over border’
A former Rangers and Hibernian youth coach trafficked young players across the border so he could abuse them and introduce them to other predators.Gordon Neely, who also coached with Dundee United and Edinburgh youth side Hutchison Vale, faced accusations but was never convicted before he died of c
Coach ‘trafficked boys over border’
Evidence has emerged which suggests a former Rangers and Hibernian youth coach was a prolific abuser
PA
Marc Horne
Tuesday March 17 2020, 12.01am GMT, The Times
A former Rangers and Hibernian youth coach trafficked young players across the border so he could abuse them and introduce them to other predators.
Gordon Neely, who also coached with Dundee United and Edinburgh youth side Hutchison Vale, faced accusations but was never convicted before he died of cancer in 2014, aged 62.
However, new evidence has emerged which suggests he was a prolific abuser who worked with other paedophiles in northwest England.
The Times understands that a number of Neely’s victims have given evidence to the independent review into sexual abuse in Scottish football, whose final report is due within weeks.
One man told how Neely took him and other Hutchison Vale players to a tournament in Stockport, Greater Manchester, in the early 1980s.
“We stayed at a YMCA,” he said. “There was a swimming pool and Neely introduced us to men there who were naked. Why on earth did a guy who lived in Edinburgh organise a tournament 250 miles away down in England? He did that so he could get us away from our families and abuse us.”
Crewe Alexandra were involved in the tournament but the survivor does not recall meeting Barry Bennell, a prolific paedophile who worked as a youth scout for the club.
However, Steve Walters, director of the Offside Trust, a support group for abuse victims, believes Neely and Bennell exchanged grooming tactics.
Both men would terrify young players with ghost stories and “haunted house” pranks before abusing them. Victims of Neely told how he hosted “ghost weekends” at an outdoor retreat centre in Perthshire, where he would encourage boys to go to his room if they were frightened. “The techniques used by Bennell and Neely are too similar for it to be a coincidence,” Mr Walters said.
Police Scotland confirmed last month they were investigating claims that a paedophile network had preyed on young footballers.
It came after the independent review, commissioned by the Scottish FA, received “substantive” new evidence of an organised cross-border abuse ring.
In January The Times published allegations that Bennell and Jim McCafferty, a former Celtic kit man and Celtic Boys Club coach, were part of a group that trafficked young players. Bennell, 66, is serving a 31-year sentence for 50 charges of child sexual abuse, while McCafferty, 74, was jailed last year for molesting young players over 24 years.
One survivor, Malcolm Rodger, 49, has waived his right of anonymity to claim he was abused separately by McCafferty and Bennell after being introduced to them by Bill Kelly, his former coach at the now defunct West Lothian club Uphall Saints.
Kelly, 84, admitted abusing 12 boys over a 22-year period but served just one year in prison in 1987. Another of his victims claimed that Kelly was an associate of Harry Dunn, the former Rangers and Liverpool youth scout, who died before he could stand trial on abuse charges in 2017.
Kelly denies having any connection with Bennell, Dunn or McCafferty.
Brilliant Pal
Exactly this.
Trying to take some emotion out I simply don’t understand how this sentencing works. What is the justification for that to be a year. There surely is some kind of comparative work done vs other crimes and the relative sentence length vs the crime committed. Baffling.
Gives us all the more reason to call for an independent inquiry. Also we should conduct our own inquiry and release the findings.
The implications behind soft sentencing for bheasts is the really frightening part folk get longer for growing plants ffs this country has become a a peadophiles dream (or has it aye been this way?) it is fucking sickening.
Hope so Grigo, got an acknowledgement from him, nothing from Richard Leonard.
All it would have have taken from Jock Stein when it all came out about Torbett was a simple phone call to the police to report a paedophile was operating within the club and the boy's club and get Torbett charged . Instead of that happening as we all know CFC decided that for the sake of the Club's " good name " it would be swept under the carpet and we all know the rest of the story how the floodgates opened and the paedophile ring grew larger like a disease they could not control and now "sporting integrity " must call the tune and the proper punishment for failing to secure the safety of the young lads whose dreams and lives were shattered must be administered and the victims compensated substantially as soon as possible and no more time wasting from CFC .
They are so desperate they have to mention Rangers first and foremost and unless whoever wrote that can prove a sexual crime took place at RFC they could find their self in Court if the Club decides to challenge the allegation .
There's no allegation there for the club to challenge. He's an ex Rangers coach and he was a nonce. Those are both facts.
