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Just give him in the 1/4’s that how it really worked in the Covid season. #twat

Remember this footage of traumatized Scottish children forced to defend themselves with weapons last summer? Ilia Belov, 22, is now on trial for saying to the 12yr old “how to have a good time” before assaulting her. The left turned on the child. Very telling.

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 ⛔️⛔️⛔️

@Glasgow_Live @GitGrumpygit North*

@Glasgow_Live @GitGrumpygit Full of Scotland is like this, Roth Lanarkshire is even worse

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@Robbie_veitch51 Deport them all and their enablers back to Ireland

🖤Remembering Andy Goram, voted #Rangers greatest Goalie, born #OTD in 1964. Andy was Walter Smiths' 1st signing and went onto play in 26 Old Firms, losing only 5, with 11 Clean Sheets. In 260 games he won 9IAR, 5 Titles, 3 Scottish Cups, 2 League Cups, a Treble & 2 PotY Awards.

🤝 That cross and finish!

@RangersReview55 Horrendous

Your thoughts on that first 45?

Not my post sharing for awareness. This has likely been seen before. Sam McEachran has ascammed me and my son out of £1,150 for Ibrox season tickets. Gave chance after chance, even offered instalments just excuses. Nearly a year on. Heard he’s done this to many others. Disgraceful.

@scotsunsport @rapwest Cause they’re pish and Celtic obviously don’t play at world cups

BREAKING: NO Scottish referees named on list of 170 World Cup officials as ten-year exile from major competitions continues ❌😬 thescottishsun.co.uk/sport/16135590…

@TheHeartsReview Pot n kettle springs to mind

If we have to go to Parkhead on the last day of the season its an absolute disgrace. Nothing to do with us playing them but more down to the fact only 600 of our support would be let in to potentially see us lift our first league title since the 60s.

@EwenDCameron @RangersRobert83 9 times out of the last 11 Celtic have been at home on the last game of season, only times they missed out was during Covid where the league got called short and the other when Rangers won the league in march 🤬🤬🤬

‘The SPFL is a joke. Always has been. Always will be’ #Hearts #Rangers #Celtic

@EwenDCameron @RangersRobert83 All for 1 team 🤬🤬

@DavidKing10 Member it’s a bank holiday and they’ll only be 600 away fans so polis would be ok with that if it’s true

@c2ldy Nae chance a Monday half 5 KO against Hearts

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@c2ldy @67Lanzarote Sure it was ya daft prick