- Chances missed to stop Bob Higgins abusing schoolboy players
- Club apologise over abuse there from mid-70s to late 80s
A string of missed opportunities allowed the predatory paedophile Bob Higgins to sexually abuse scores of schoolboy footballers while he worked as a coach at Southampton, a damning report by the children’s charity Barnardo’s has concluded.
Higgins, regarded as a “god-like” star-maker by youngsters who dreamed of a career in football, was able to operate “seemingly undetected” at Southampton from the mid-1970s until the late 1980s and continued to work elsewhere in the sport until 2016.
Written by Steven Morris
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/nov/26/southampton-historical-sexual-abuse-failures-revealed-in-damning-report-bob-higgins-barnados under the title “Damning report reveals Southampton FC’s 70s and 80s sexual abuse failures”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
