The Dark Side of Football

[STID2017]

Just watched the three episodes of The Dark Side of Football.
The first was shown on BBC One tonight, however all three are available on BBC iPlayer.
They catalogue the mass abuse of young footballers over the years and the clubs and the FA's failure to deal with it.
Such a sad sobering series and quite shocking.
Hopefully we will never see such failure to protect children again

 

[Lifelong]

The amount of boys that were subject to this vile abuse, and the effect it has had on their lives, is absolutely sickening.

 

[STID2017]

Indeed. The attitude at the time, certainly by at least one club, seemed to be as long as he is producing the players for the club then we'll ignore what else is said to be happening

 

[thefranchise]

All I can say is that there are considerable safeguards in place today and they get stricter and stricter every year.

 

[STID2017]

All I can say is that there are considerable safeguards in place today and they get stricter and stricter every year.

That is good news

 

[Lifelong]

Watched the second episode last night, a very difficult watch...horrendous.

 

[TheLoneRanger]

Just finished watching part 3. The whole series was harrowing and heartbreaking.

The clubs had a duty of care to all these children, they all failed abysmally!!

Paedophiles hiding in plain sight.

 

[Fireboy]

Cant bring myself to watch it as it would infuriate me.

 

[dickythorpe]

I don't think I could watch it either.