The way Crewe historically dealt with/are currently dealing with this should come under close scrutiny too.
It'll be a shame if Gradi comes out of this in a bad light. On the face of it at least, he's done alot over the years for youth development and bringing through players who went on to establish themselves at the top level.
I hope he didn't make Danny Murphy suck him off or anything
It'll be a shame if Gradi comes out of this in a bad light. On the face of it at least, he's done alot over the years for youth development and bringing through players who went on to establish themselves at the top level.
He had to be wary of Dicks behind him at Anfield too.Watching Paul Stewart play for us was a form of abuse.
We did that so often. Sign a striker, then move them into midfield when they didn't score quite enough goals. Clough and Saunders both suffered that.
But on the flip side there was Ray Kennedy.
This is all too predictable but still very sad.
Someone mentioned the 70s and 80s. Was it just then? Or has this been around and endemic for as long people have been around?
Sorry you got bummed dude.Looking back, it was a time when people didn't notice things.
But kids knew. There was always "jokes" about certain adults.
In Dublin, in our club Home Farm FC , we had a bloke who was a local businessman. He was heavily involved in the club. Not married, and put a lot of time into "working with the children". Well years later guess what came out about him. Same thing for a local groundskeeper. Always giving kids a run on his tractor! Always hanging out with the kids. Some of the kids used to make lots of jokes about him, asking for this and that. Well guess who was found guilty of being "inappropriate" with kids.
Sure we would go on. Wherever you've got kids, you've got to keep an eye out.
We even had an odd experience with a local doctor recently.
Sorry you got bummed dude.
Its a form of flatery to you really.
I never got any attention.
Sorry you got bummed dude.
Its a form of flatery to you really.
I never got any attention.
There was a TV show a few months back highlighting some of the offensive shit that was regularly shown on TV and cinema's that nowadays is deemed sexist, racist or illegal. I remember one in particular which shocked was from a popular film of the day "Confessions of a Window Cleaner" in which the lead character climbed his ladder and ended up peering through an open window of a school girls changing room. The girls were all in underwear and probably about 13 or 14 and he turns to the camera and says something like "Phooowaar in a few years time some of them.....etc. " It does just go to show how the paedophiles got away with it when it was almost condoned on mainstream media.