The brave testimony of one man, Andy Woodward, has led to fears of a paedophile ring in the sport. The Football Assocation and club are now under pressure to show they can handle the outpouring
English football, so often the subject of both front and back pages during frothing episodes in which “scandal” and “shame” are appended to any number of trivialities, has had a week during which those words have taken on a deadening tone.
After the former professional Andy Woodward waived his anonymity to tell the Guardian of years of childhood sexual abuse at the hands of Barry Bennell, a convicted paedophile who worked for Crewe Alexandra in the 1980s and 1990s and also had associations with Manchester City and Stoke City, the shockwaves have reverberated around the game.
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