Stumbled across this article on twitter from 2016, it's behind a firewall so if anyone has a subscription to the times and would like to post the full article it'd be much appreciated.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/sexual-abuse-inquiry-cannot-cover-football-xx5tz5jd8
The first paragraphs states that Dugdale backed calls for inquiry to be extended to include football clubs but Sturgeon refused, I didn't know there were calls for this at the time. It's disgraceful, and now more information is known it should be used to highlight how shocking a decision it was not to include football clubs in scope of inquiry.
Nicola Sturgeon said that she was “sickened” by the allegations of child sex abuse at football clubs but ruled out extending a government inquiry into historical cases into the sport.
The first minister was responding to a Labour plea to expand the remit of the Scottish child abuse inquiry in light of the growing scandal.
Kezia Dugdale, the Scottish Labour leader, said that her party backed a call by abuse survivors’ groups to extend the in-care abuse inquiry to “all situations where a duty of care existed”, such as sports clubs and youth clubs. She added that the “growing tide of revelations from footballers adds to that demand”.
However, Ms Sturgeon warned that extending the remit of the inquiry risked proceedings dragging on for several years. “The allegations of abuse that are surfacing now in relation to football are extremely serious and they sicken all of us,” she said.
“The inquiries that must now take place into these allegations of abuse are first and foremost police inquiries in order that anyone who has been the victim of abuse gets the justice they so rightly deserve.”
She added that the inquiry, which was set up last year, was already the most wide-ranging public inquiry ever held in Scotland and deliberately focused on in-care abuse — that which took place in institutions or other settings that had legal responsibility for the long-term care of children in place of their parents.
“To widen the remit of that inquiry would mean that it would take perhaps many, many years longer to conclude its investigations and would risk becoming completely unwieldy, and we would be at risk, I think, of breaking our word to the survivors of in-care abuse,”
Ms Sturgeon said.
“My view is that we should allow that inquiry to get on with its job and we should allow the police to get on with their job of investigating allegations of abuse in football.
“As the police inquiries take their course, if it does emerge that there are wider systemic issues to be addressed then, of course, we would consider very seriously about how that should be taken forward.”
Meanwhile, a former youth coach and kitman at Celtic football club who was charged with a child sex offence has been remanded in prison for his own safety by a court in Belfast.
The defence solicitor of Jim McCafferty, 70, said that he had been instructed not to apply for bail and there was a safety issue if his client had been allowed to remain in the community.
Mr McCafferty was involved in football in Scotland and Ireland from the 1980s and was arrested on Tuesday by the Police Service of Northern Ireland after walking into a police station.
He was accused of sexually touching a boy aged under 16. He was charged with engaging in sexual activity with a child aged between 13 and 16 in Northern Ireland between December 2011 and December 2014.
He appeared before Judge Liam McNally at Laganside magistrates’ court in Belfast yesterday and spoke only to confirm that he understood the charge.
McCafferty, originally from Wishaw, North Lanarkshire, but more recently living in south Belfast, was formerly a kitman at Celtic, Hibernian and Falkirk.
He was remanded in custody to appear in court via video-link on January 5.
So according to Nippy, it is a straight forward police matter?