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Ajax. THE club in world football famed for scouting and developing young players being told they haven't a clue by wee Gerry and his mates I'd priceless content

JIM McCAFFERTY Over four decades, Jim McCafferty coached and enjoyed access to hundreds of children who dreamed of being football stars. In his wake, he left a trail of misery and destruction. He chose his victims, all boys, from the various youth football teams he managed in North Lanarkshire, from Celtic Boys Club and from Celtic FC’s pro youth set up, where he coached and was kitman. They were then groomed, abused and manipulated into silence. But it was a silence that would not hold forever. On Tuesday, at the High Court in Edinburgh, McCafferty, 73, cut a shambling figure, as he pleaded guilty to 10 charges of indecent assault, one charge of lewd and libidinous behaviour, and a breach of the peace. He wore a grey cardigan and trousers, and sat with his head down for the majority of the hearing. As the charges were read in detail by the advocate despite, he did not react. Some of McCafferty’s nine surviving victims were at court to see the man they’d once feared jailed for six years and nine months. He was already serving a jail term for abuse. One of his victims, now in his late 50s, was abused by McCafferty in the 1970s. He told the BBC how McCafferty had groomed him, from age 13, and abused him more than a dozen times during the 1970s. Craig (not his real name) said: “It was a period of three years where the attacks increased in intensity and frequency. “One particular attack… he was on top of me, pressing me against the wall… physically abusing me. “I was shaking, it’s almost like freezing, a numbness comes over you that the sense of, is this real? Is this happening to me? What do you do here? It’s like a bad dream where you don’t have the power of your own muscles.” Craig said he arrived home from school a few days later and McCafferty was sitting in his living room, speaking to his parents. He told them Craig was on Celtic’s radar, but had been missing training. “My father was proud and puffed up by that, and was telling me that I had to get over myself and get back… so I did.” Craig says he was taken to Celtic Park by McCafferty and introduced to the management team as a potential new recruit for Celtic. “[But]…. in growing up I often reflected on not really having the ability to make it professionally, never mind with Celtic. It was stupidity on my part.” On another occasion, Craig says he was introduced to Jim Torbett, the Celtic Boys Club founder, who was jailed for a second time last year after a BBC Scotland investigation revealed fresh evidence against him. McCafferty was also a coach for Celtic Boys Club, and four of his victims played for the club and the Celtic youth team. Craig, who was then playing for a youth team called Motherwell Boys Club (not connected to the professional side), says he was taken to play a six-a-side tournament in Glasgow where Celtic Boys Club was also taking part. He said: “I was called over, and McCafferty was introducing me [to Torbett] and saying odds were, that at some point I would be joining Celtic. “Celtic was always the carrot he dangled in front of me.” Jim Tobett is not the only known football paedophile McCafferty was linked to. Another of McCafferty’s victims told the BBC he was taken to meet Barry Bennell, the former Crewe Alexandria coach now serving 30 years in prison for what has been described as “industrial scale” child abuse. David (not his real name) is in his early 50s, and played for Netherdale Boys Club in the 1980s. He was abused by McCafferty, who coached the team, and has struggled with alcohol and gambling problems ever since. “I didn’t know what grooming meant back then, but I do now. “I had a paper round, then one day he turned up and got me a job in a charity he worked at called the Drake Fellowship." This charity would later become Fairbridge. In 1992, Jim Torbett was listed in company accounts as managing director. Impossible these clubs didn’t know ⛔️⛔️⛔️

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@SWJA_SPORT @WirralRanger Maybe no. The right back looks really good. Hom and Rommens ripping up the league would be epic. Keep Fernandez and get Djiga and thats a good back 4

@VaticanRSC @WirralRanger Unfortunately I think that’s Khalid Boutaïb who’s now 38 y/o and back playing in Marrakech - maybe not quite the sell-on value we’re after ! 😂😂 Some right peg in those clips tbf

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@Ross_F97 @BasilTheGreat Glasgow council is run by the snp

@BasilTheGreat Why isn't it the same, Ally? Oh because of all the brown people

It’s absolutely heartbreaking watching Ally McCoist talk about the decline in his home city of Glasgow It’s the same all over the UK What corrupt politicians have done to our great country is appalling beyond belief

Djigas agent apparently at the training camp taking videos. Hopefully he's there to discuss a deal.

@staylorish Hahahaha just fuck off

Alan Cumming on how women have ruined feminism for him.

@JohnSwinney Every election time you and your party peddle out these lies. You've been in power for almost two decades.

Especially at a big moment like starting school, I want every child in Scotland to have the best start in life.   Building on the success of the Baby Box, we will introduce a Welcome to School Bag - supporting families and children with stationery, books and other helpful items.

@TremendoHendo72 Pure capitalism form a kid on socialist

@fmeetsdata @RFC_Michael_ Yeah we're 2nd in the league.

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Why are most Rangers fans that phone @ClydeSSB full of shit.

@KelmanPeter Throbber

@maroonajambo Yeah. With reflection you are still a fanny.

@VaticanRSC Give your head a shake mate ffs 🤦🏻‍♂️

This is why Scottish Football is denied nice things 🍆

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Fanny

@maroonajambo Bore off ya fanny

See if your allocated away ticket capacity is reached….dinnae try and find tickets in the home end 🙄🤦🏻‍♂️……and see if you’re a home supporter that’s giving up your seat for an away fan…..🤨

@Bairdric1 Said that to my auld man. They'd have been buzzing at 2-0 even 2-1 and a bit of hope at 4-3 Burst. Think how we'd have felt only add on pure paranoia and victim mentality

Makes a royal cunt of himself, tries to deflect with a pishy wee Gif. Make no mistake today has ruined this lot. 😂

Getting sacked ain't he