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A man was convicted of molesting boys for 25 years.
An independent report has found that the football club left a paedophile youth coach free to abuse boys.
Bob Higgins was sentenced to 24 years in prison for sexually touching people.
The club commissioned a report from Barnardo's that said the board should have acted on the rumors about Higgins.
The club did not excuse its failure to act.
Between 1971 and 1996 he was found guilty of 46 counts of indecent assault on 24 victims.
The former trainees said they were abused during massages, at training camps and at his house.
There was no managerial oversight of the boys who stayed overnight at the home, and the board was negligent in not addressing the issue.
The report said that there had been concerns about the behavior of the man over a number of years.
The board was made aware of a complaint against the club's former president in 1979 but there was no information about the club's response.
The report said that a letter from the chairman of the Football Association in 1987 raised issues that would have caused "disquiet".
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Jamie, Dean, Lee, and Greg were all abused.
The board took no action, leaving the boys vulnerable and the man free to continue abusing them.
"Despite assertions to the contrary, the board and/or management must have heard or been told about stories circulating about Higgins and if this was so, they failed to take any action to find out whether there could be any substance to the rumors," it said.
The club failed to put the safety and welfare of boys concerned first by not doing so.
It was not certain who knew about the rumors and the boys did not report the abuse to other adults.
Dave Merrington, the youth team manager at the time, overheard players making "troubling comments" about him in April 1989.
The Barnado's report said that when the board was made aware of the alleged sexual abuse of boys, it did not immediately inform the police, something which it called a "dramatic let-down" for those involved.
The club failed in exercising a duty of care towards the boys.
They and other boys were left vulnerable to ongoing abuse by Higgins which impacted upon their lives as children and the adults they became.
Those who were abused were left to make their own decisions.
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In its response to the report, the club said there had been a complete institutional failure.
The club failed to protect many young people from abuse over a long period of time.
The failure was compounded by the lack of support for those boys who were brave enough to speak up about the abuse. There is no excuse for that.
It is impossible for anyone to not regard a coach who has so many children stay at their house or engage in so many odd behaviors around children as highly unusual and inappropriate.
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Dean was the first to speak out about the abuse.
The report's conclusions were "damning" according to Dean Radford, who was abused by Bob Higgins as a youth player.
He said there was no reason why they wouldn't have investigated the allegations.
If something had been done, none of these guys would have been affected.
I think the people that are involved now have set things in place and they take this sort of thing very seriously.
A report by Clive Sheldon said that a school head warned the club about a player in the 1970s, but it was dismissed as "malicious gossip".
The report said that if the allegation of abuse had been reported to police more quickly, it would have been possible to find out if other boys had been victims.
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