Celtic Boys Club manager 'stuffed banknotes in boy's mouth'

[ian1964 10,409]

 

[Uilleam 5,409]

I can only assume that the SFA is holding back publication because the longer the delay, the lesser the impact. Perhaps it hopes that

-people involved (perpetrators, their enablers, their protectors,  and their victims) die in the interim, or

-pederasty, etc. is legalised by the Scottish Parliament. 

 

In any event, I'd lay £1 to £100K that it will be the whitest of whitewash jobs, and that it will deflect attention from the nest of predators and their pals in and around O'Merta FC, and spread the blame. 

 

Here's the report from today's Times:

 

Victims’ anger after SFA delays sexual abuse report again

Marc Horne

Friday October 02 2020, 12.01am, The Times

 

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/scotland/victims-anger-after-sfa-delays-sexual-abuse-report-again-0gvshk5qd

 

Malcolm Rodger, spokesman for the survivors’ group Settle the Score, said the delay caused “unnecessary pain and suffering to those individuals who were brave enough to come forward and give evidence”

 

The author of a report into sexual abuse within football claims he is being kept in the dark by the sport’s authorities over their failure to publish his findings.

 

The document, commissioned by the Scottish Football Association, was due to be released in 2018 but has been held back on numerous occasions, provoking anger and frustration from survivors who gave evidence.

Martin Henry, chairman of the Independent Review into Sexual Abuse in Scottish Football, said he had handed over the finalised report to the SFA some months ago and was assured it would be made public before the end of September. He said he had been given no explanation for the latest delay.

“The report was submitted in the summer and is now in the hands of the SFA,” he said. “It is up to them to comment on why it hasn’t been released.”

A source close to the investigation said: “We were told it would definitely be released in September but it never materialised. I can fully understand why the survivors are puzzled, concerned and frustrated. Obviously there are issues, but we are not party to what these issues are.”

Johann Lamont, the former Scottish Labour leader and co-convener of Holyrood’s cross-party group of adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse, said that any further delays were unacceptable. “I am gravely concerned that this serious and important report has not yet been published,” she said. “Survivors need to know that there has been a thorough investigation and we all need to have the confidence that lessons will be learnt.

“The SFA must make a firm commitment not just to publish but to provide a deadline by which that commitment will be delivered.”

The report was originally delayed to allow a number of court cases, linked to historic sex abuse with football, to be completed. More recently survivors have been told its release had been held back because of the pandemic.

Survivors and their representatives have suggested that the SFA and other prominent Scottish football institutions are looking to sideline a report that will highlight their historic failures — and could have consequences for scores of legal cases. Malcolm Rodger, spokesman for the survivors’ group Settle the Score, said: “Every additional delay causes further unnecessary pain and suffering to those individuals who were brave enough to come forward and give evidence.

“The SFA’s remarkable reluctance to publish raises questions over whether their main priority is protecting their own reputation rather than vulnerable youngsters.”

Patrick McGuire, a partner with Thompsons solicitors, which is representing six people who were abused by SFA officials and dozens more who were attacked while playing for senior and junior clubs, said: “Perhaps it’s time for the Scottish government to impress upon the SFA the need for this report to be made public now in its original form without edit or redaction.”

The Times understands that the final report will recommend that the SFA and a host of prominent clubs, including Celtic, Motherwell, Hibernian and Rangers, must acknowledge past failures to protect vulnerable children and teenagers.

The SFA did not respond to a request for comment.

[Uilleam 5,409]

The charming Frank Cairney, up for shaving. Once more. 

 

This champion of the sellik cause, this "unsung hero of the Celtic story", this "confidante and mentor" of future stars, who "gave 30 years of his adult life championing the Celtic cause", was General Manager of their boys' club for seventeen (17) years, and was involved with kids, there, for some twenty (20) years. 

Might we see him in the dock, again? And again? 

 

From today's Times:

 

Celtic Boys Club ex-chief Frank Cairney faces abuse charges

Marc Horne

Saturday October 03 2020, 12.01am, The Times

 

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/scotland/celtic-boys-club-ex-chief-frank-cairney-faces-abuse-charges-0zmpggx5m

 

Frank Cairney will face charges at Glasgow sheriff court on October 30

 

A former senior figure at Celtic FC’s feeder club will face charges of sexual abuse within weeks.

Frank Cairney, 84, served as general manager of Celtic Boys Club from 1974 until 1991.

 

The Crown Office confirmed that Mr Cairney, of Uddingston, South Lanarkshire, has been charged and is involved in a live case. It is understood that the charges relate to the alleged sexual abuse of young people. A Crown Office spokeswoman said: “Frank Cairney has one live case that is scheduled to call at Glasgow sheriff court as an adjourned first diet on October 30.”

 

Mr Cairney took over as general manager of Celtic Boys Club in 1974, replacing Jim Torbett, the founder of the feeder club.

In 1986 Mr Cairney contributed an article to a souvenir brochure produced to mark the 20th anniversary of Celtic Boys Club.

He wrote: “We have helped to make a lot of young boys happy. It makes me even happier to think we are fulfilling a role in their development. I will have special thoughts for every boy who has represented the boys’ club during the 20 years of our existence.”

 

Mr Cairney resigned from the boys’ club in 1991 after leading 20 teenagers and five adults on a summer tour to New Jersey. He was present at Parkhead when Tommy Burns, his former protégé, was presented as the new Celtic FC manager three years later.

 

On July 29, 1994, the Celtic View, the club magazine, lauded Mr Cairney as “one of the great unsung heroes of the Celtic story”. Burns, who died of skin cancer aged 51 in 2008, said Mr Cairney had brought him to the boys’ club as a teenager and had been his confidant and mentor ever since, adding: “He’s given 30 years of his adult life championing the Celtic cause.”

The 1994 report said: “Frank was brought into the Celtic set-up by [the manager] Jock Stein and [the chief scout] John Higgins. He was entrusted to set up the system which would help the under-16s on to the next step of the ladder.

“That system has paid off with one of those raw recruits becoming the man in charge of the club.”

Four years earlier the publication offered congratulations to Mr Cairney on his “20th year on the Celtic staff”.

 

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[the gunslinger 3,366]

Don't expect it before the end of this season 

[barca72 440]

6 hours ago, the gunslinger said:

Don't expect it before the end of this season 

Don't expect it at all. Liars and hypocrites to a man.

[ChelseaBoy 2,232]

On 02/10/2020 at 09:13, Uilleam said:

I can only assume that the SFA is holding back publication because the longer the delay, the lesser the impact. Perhaps it hopes that

-people involved (perpetrators, their enablers, their protectors,  and their victims) die in the interim, or

-pederasty, etc. is legalised by the Scottish Parliament. 

 

In any event, I'd lay £1 to £100K that it will be the whitest of whitewash jobs, and that it will deflect attention from the nest of predators and their pals in and around O'Merta FC, and spread the blame. 

 

Here's the report from today's Times:

 

Victims’ anger after SFA delays sexual abuse report again

Marc Horne

Friday October 02 2020, 12.01am, The Times

 

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/scotland/victims-anger-after-sfa-delays-sexual-abuse-report-again-0gvshk5qd

 

Malcolm Rodger, spokesman for the survivors’ group Settle the Score, said the delay caused “unnecessary pain and suffering to those individuals who were brave enough to come forward and give evidence”

 

The author of a report into sexual abuse within football claims he is being kept in the dark by the sport’s authorities over their failure to publish his findings.

 

The document, commissioned by the Scottish Football Association, was due to be released in 2018 but has been held back on numerous occasions, provoking anger and frustration from survivors who gave evidence.

Martin Henry, chairman of the Independent Review into Sexual Abuse in Scottish Football, said he had handed over the finalised report to the SFA some months ago and was assured it would be made public before the end of September. He said he had been given no explanation for the latest delay.

“The report was submitted in the summer and is now in the hands of the SFA,” he said. “It is up to them to comment on why it hasn’t been released.”

A source close to the investigation said: “We were told it would definitely be released in September but it never materialised. I can fully understand why the survivors are puzzled, concerned and frustrated. Obviously there are issues, but we are not party to what these issues are.”

Johann Lamont, the former Scottish Labour leader and co-convener of Holyrood’s cross-party group of adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse, said that any further delays were unacceptable. “I am gravely concerned that this serious and important report has not yet been published,” she said. “Survivors need to know that there has been a thorough investigation and we all need to have the confidence that lessons will be learnt.

“The SFA must make a firm commitment not just to publish but to provide a deadline by which that commitment will be delivered.”

The report was originally delayed to allow a number of court cases, linked to historic sex abuse with football, to be completed. More recently survivors have been told its release had been held back because of the pandemic.

Survivors and their representatives have suggested that the SFA and other prominent Scottish football institutions are looking to sideline a report that will highlight their historic failures — and could have consequences for scores of legal cases. Malcolm Rodger, spokesman for the survivors’ group Settle the Score, said: “Every additional delay causes further unnecessary pain and suffering to those individuals who were brave enough to come forward and give evidence.

“The SFA’s remarkable reluctance to publish raises questions over whether their main priority is protecting their own reputation rather than vulnerable youngsters.”

Patrick McGuire, a partner with Thompsons solicitors, which is representing six people who were abused by SFA officials and dozens more who were attacked while playing for senior and junior clubs, said: “Perhaps it’s time for the Scottish government to impress upon the SFA the need for this report to be made public now in its original form without edit or redaction.”

The Times understands that the final report will recommend that the SFA and a host of prominent clubs, including Celtic, Motherwell, Hibernian and Rangers, must acknowledge past failures to protect vulnerable children and teenagers.

The SFA did not respond to a request for comment.

Why have the other clubs been mentioned in connection with this? I've not been close to this ongoing scandal, are there cases to answer here or is it obfuscation? 

[Uilleam 5,409]

34 minutes ago, ChelseaBoy said:

Why have the other clubs been mentioned in connection with this? I've not been close to this ongoing scandal, are there cases to answer here or is it obfuscation? 

Largely, 'whataboutery', as far as I know, although I have seen it suggested that the cabbage and ribs have, appropriately enough, some skeletons in the cupboard. 

Rangers, unfortunately, employed one Neely, as a youth coach, recruited from Leith, from where he had been dismissed for pederasty, or similar. 

He was sacked by Souness (and Smith), in short order, following complaints of inappropriate suggestions. Personally, I am surprised that our managers, at the time, did not give him a good kicking. 

 

[Thinker 851]

29 minutes ago, Uilleam said:

Largely, 'whataboutery', as far as I know, although I have seen it suggested that the cabbage and ribs have, appropriately enough, some skeletons in the cupboard. 

Rangers, unfortunately, employed one Neely, as a youth coach, recruited from Leith, from where he had been dismissed for pederasty, or similar. 

He was sacked by Souness (and Smith), in short order, following complaints of inappropriate suggestions. Personally, I am surprised that our managers, at the time, did not give him a good kicking. 

 

Hibs chairman, Kenny Waugh, sacked Neely knowing full well he was child molester, but didn't tell anyone for fear of reputaional damage to his club:

 

Former Hibs chairman ‘sacked coach at centre of sex abuse scandal but didn’t tell police’, source claims

 

As a result, Rangers employed Neely without any way of knowing what a danger he was. Fortunately, it seems he was rumbled before he did any real damage - one of the Rangers youth players, whose dad was a cop, reported him after a dodgy conversation, and Neely was subsequently fired.

 

Much more should have been made of that Sunday Post article. If it comes to light that Neely did abuse anyone following Hibs' cover-up, they deserve to be fucking crucified.