The former Tottenham, Manchester City and Liverpool player Paul Stewart has revealed he turned to drink and drugs during his career after suffering sexual abuse by a youth coach. Stewart, who played three times for England, claimed he was assaulted on a daily basis for four years by a coach who had told him he would “make him a star”. Second footballer reveals abuse by serial paedophile Barry Bennell Read more“One day, travelling in the car, he started to touch me. “From then, it progressed to sexually abusing me, he said he would kill my mother, my father, my two brothers if I breathed a word about it. Woodward has criticised Crewe for their lack of apology in the first official statement the club have released about the escalating Bennell case.

Source: The Guardian November 22, 2016 23:43 UTC