DARIO GRADI
The FA refused on Wednesday night to say exactly why the former Crewe Alexandra manager is banned from football and deemed a ‘risk of harm to children’. But the extraordinary detail on Gradi in Clive Sheldon QC’s report leaves little to the imagination.
He was reserve-team coach at Chelsea in late 1975 when he arrived at the home of a player who had been abused by the club’s youth-team coach, Eddie Heath.
The assault was serious but Gradi told Sheldon he ‘did not consider a person putting their hands down another’s trousers to be an assault’.