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For more than a decade Barry Bennell was one of the most respected talent spotters in the game - but his place in football was a front for a perversion the scale of which is only now becoming clear.

The 62-year-old coached and scouted junior players during a career that saw him employed by clubs such as Stoke City, Manchester City and Crewe Alexandra.

He would travel around the North West and the Midlands, looking for boys aged nine to 14 to play in junior football teams in Derbyshire, Staffordshire and Cheshire.

The paedophile would invite boys to stay in his home or take them on football tours - but in 1992 he was sacked by Crewe for reasons that have never been made public.

Bennell - who according to the Stoke Sentinel was employed as a residential care worker in a Derbyshire children's home in the 1970s - went on to work in the US, where his insights and methods on the field earned him acclaim.

Unlike comparable scandals of recent years, his legacy of abuse received negligible media coverage - just a smattering of local reports and a short article in The Independent.

According to the latter, those basic court reports reveal how Bennell showed boys films such as The Exorcist to frighten them into sharing his bed.

There would often be two or three boys in the bed with him as the assaults took place. 

In May last year, he was jailed for two years for sexual offences committed against a 12-year-old boy in 1980. During the court case he described himself as a "monster".

Bennell, who also goes by Richard Jones, is currently out on licence and is permanently suspended from football.

His abuse is back in the spotlight after former Crewe Alexandra player Andy Woodward gave a harrowing account to The Guardian of abuse he says was perpetrated by Bennell and which has blighted his life.

Since that interview, three former professional footballers and several other people have contacted police over alleged sexual abuse carried out by the former coach.

Bennell's abuse was also once the subject of a Channel 4 Dispatches programme.

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Makes sense why all them guys of gazzas eras have serious addictions 

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The former football coach at the centre of a child sex abuse scandal, Barry Bennell, has been admitted to hospital.

"Police officers attended an address in Knebworth Park, Stevenage just before 11pm on Friday in connection with a fear for welfare incident," Thames Valley Police said in a statement.

"A 62-year-old man was located and was taken to hospital in order to receive medical treatment, where he remains."

East of England Ambulance Trust said the man was "unconscious" when paramedics reached him.

Bennell has recently been accused of sex abuse by former players.

The scandal is now expanding, with the Football Association launching an inquiry into the allegations and the Professional Footballers' Association saying more than 20 players have come forward to seek help over the abuse.

 

 

Tried topping himself

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few tweets inbeteen then this ?

 

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Yeah what they should have done is run to the press screaming we employed a nonce 

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On 30/11/2016 at 1:53 PM, FA23 said:

Disgraceful 

 

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Up to 55 clubs now 

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Think they need to suspend the season to investigate this then people will sit up and take notice and give this the attention it deserves.

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On 04/12/2016 at 1:44 AM, Mame Biram Diouf said:

Disgraceful 

Whoever got paid is just as bad tbh. mightve been a handsome sum but now you just got paid to get felt up by an old man.

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1 hour ago, Iceberg said:

Think they need to suspend the season to investigate this then people will sit up and take notice and give this the attention it deserves.

These antics are normal in white society.

Nothing to see here as far as they are concerned.

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Agree with Bobby tbh.

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Matt Le Tissier touched at Southampton?.....

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There are now 83 potential suspects and 98 clubs involved in the inquiry into child abuse in football, police chiefs have said.

The investigations span all tiers of football, "from premier clubs through to amateur", the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) said.

Surreal 

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that is just football wonder how many sports and activity groups had this going on and look at the dates these were times (the 80's) nonces were pushing for laws to be changed This country as a whole needs to stop hiding and handle its nonce issue

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Can of worms.

 

When the disclosures start coming in from Care homes, schools, hospitals etc the shit will really hit the fan.

 

Anywhere you have people being put in tbe care and responsibilityof others there is always a serious danger of this sort of shit. The fact that only fairly recently the safeguarding procedures have been "sured" up leaves me thinking we have mountain loads more to come. 

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