The Football Association 'could have done more to keep children safe', a damaging report into abuse within the sport has found.
English football's governing body delayed introducing protection measures between 1995 and 2000 in an 'institutional failing' which left youngsters at risk - and failed to ban two serial predatory paedophiles from the game according to the much-awaited, QC-led review which raises serious questions but falls short of unearthing a cover-up.
Clubs have also come under fire across 700 pages of the independent probe into child sexual abuse in football between 1970 and 2005. Following reports of abuse, responses were 'rarely competent of appropriate', Clive Sheldon QC has found.