Questions for Alex Thomson as his Channel 4 Report on Child Abuse is about to be broadcast

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Questions for Alex Thomson as his Channel 4 Report on Child Abuse is about to be broadcast | The Celtic Star

ALEX THOMSON'S report into historical child abuse in Scottish football will be broadcast this evening on Channel 4 News. "Malcolm's Story. Waiving his anonymity former soldier Malcom Ro

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[Docco]

just caught the end of that there...felt physically sick watching it

 

[Niall J]

That interview with Bill Kelly encapsulates what many of them are like when you meet them. Tell you what they think you want to hear-but you can see they have no remorse, the smirk, laugh. He was enjoying that moment. He'll be laughing right now

 

[Docco]

...also , dont see the need to drag other teams into it to even up the score...if celtic are complicit and guilty, then the club should be punished

 

[michael duffy]

...also , dont see the need to drag other teams into it to even up the score...if celtic are complicit and guilty, then the club should be punished

Every club, if involved, should be punished

 

[Docco]

Every club, if involved, should be punished

that goes without saying

 

[rip sevco]

celtic should be contacting the police and asking them what they knew about him before he joined us...there was complaints about him prior to him joining but there was no charges..its in the reporting

 

[Niall J]

...also , dont see the need to drag other teams into it to even up the score...if celtic are complicit and guilty, then the club should be punished

Think the whole point of the piece was to show how interlinked, interwoven it was even then. The trafficking was the real story. Above and beyond what I'd have expected of the time. Imagine what thats like now with the internet. Frightening

 

[kelly]

That interview with Bill Kelly encapsulates what many of them are like when you meet them. Tell you what they think you want to hear-but you can see they have no remorse, the smirk, laugh. He was enjoying that moment. He'll be laughing right now

yeah he came across as so what , what you gonna do about it

what i would have liked to have heard is when did the sfa know there was peado rings operating in Scotland , AT says it went through 70-80-90s if so what actions did they take to address it , and why was it never made public , because if they did know this as early as the 70s then there are a lot of questions that need answering

Thought the segment would have contained more but leaves more questions than answer , suppose it would be hard to cover all in 10-15 mins ,looked more to be a filler piece before they get to the main item ,,Celtic

Feel for the Malcom fella it was brave of him to come forward and hope he gets all the support and understanding he deserves

 

[kelly]

...also , dont see the need to drag other teams into it to even up the score...if celtic are complicit and guilty, then the club should be punished

They're not dragging other teams into it , there showing how they're linked from small boys clubs through to the larger teams

 

[michael duffy]

There had to be a long established,nationwide network,those two monsters who took that poor boy to Bennell at Blackpool,did'nt do so on the off chance!

 

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[Niall J]

yeah he came across as so what , what you gonna do about it

what i would have liked to have heard is when did the sfa know there was peado rings operating in Scotland , AT says it went through 70-80-90s if so what actions did they take to address it , and why was it never made public , because if they did know this as early as the 70s then there are a lot of questions that need answering

Thought the segment would have contained more but leaves more questions than answer , suppose it would be hard to cover all in 10-15 mins ,looked more to be a filler piece before they get to the main item ,,Celtic

Feel for the Malcom fella it was brave of him to come forward and hope gets all the support and understanding he deserves

Certainly is Kelly, An incredibly brave man.
That is the big question, what was known? Was the real extent known was the traficking on that sort of scale even considered a possibility then? I know most thinking until last 10 years or so was the belief they'd work alone due to the nature of the crime and the consequences if uncovered. To see that level of cross border abuse at that time. I'm not sure that would even have been considered possible at the time.
I think it's been well handled so far, advising they have the evidence and it's up to others if they want to act on it.
The second part tomorrow will be a finer brush rather than the broad brush approach tonight

 

[kelly]

There had to be a long established,nationwide network,those two monsters who took that poor boy to Bennell at Blackpool,did'nt do so on the off chance!

Your right michael and the malcom fella won't be the only guy who was preyed on from a small boys club team and passed onto others

 

[oj17]

From boys football clubs, scouts, religous organisations, orphanages and 'untouchable' politicians - peodophiles knew where to hide and they got away with it too long - get it out in the open and sort it out.
Nail these bastards wherever they are from - If AT takes a slant on Celtic - im fine with it let it open doors so that as many as pople as possible get the justice they deserve and the victims get some closure.

 

[Niall J]

So far Channel 4 have called it an issue across Scottish football. Malcom in TCS article has said he feels the SFA had responsibility not the individual clubs due to the age of those abused.
Will be interesting to see how it is handled tomorrow night. Given this approach it would be strange now to focus solely on any one club. Unless they have more evidence and it seems likely given the way the ended the piece tonight

 

[Docco]

The scary thing is that im sure most of us played at boys club level in Scotland around that time...We could very easily have been subjected to what those poor guys had to go through

 

[Niall J]

The scary thing is that im sure most of us played at boys club level in Scotland around that time...We could very easily have been subjected to what those poor guys had to go through

Makes you wonder if it was going on around you and you didn't have a clue

 

[Docco]

They're not dragging other teams into it , there showing how they're linked from small boys clubs through to the larger teams

i was talking about the OP's article he posted

 

[oj17]

Makes you wonder if it was going on around you and you didn't have a clue

I once was asked to join a boys swimming club by a priest - I went once and even though I was only about 12 my alarm bells started ringing and never went back.