I find myself agreeing with you, Mike, which must be for the second time since I started using this site!!!

As you rightly say, the Police may well have cleared the club of legal wrongdoing (twice) but that only goes so far. It’s all about public perception now and the Alex could give lessons on how not to go about that. Personally I would rather they brought someone in to look at current practices as that is more relevant to today’s standards in safeguarding young people than that which pertained 30 years ago.

However much we might think we are becoming the scapegoat club in this whole sordid affair, the fact remains we are one of the clubs at the centre of it and employed a *****phile for several years. Whatever it takes to at least try to clear our name must be done; let’s not forget that some of our former kids say they were known as the ***** boys and I for one find that appalling and something that we should do whatever it takes to make sure is never repeated.