Crewe’s Dario Gradi accused of covering up child sex abuse claims at Chelsea - 7M sport

Crewe’s Dario Gradi accused of covering up child sex abuse claims at Chelsea

Dario Gradi has a lot of explaining to do


Posted Saturday, December 03, 2016 by 101 GREAT GOALS

Crewe’s Dario Gradi accused of covering up child sex abuse claims at Chelsea
Dario Gradi, Crewe Director of Football

Football's child sex abuse culture finally revealed

It's only been two weeks since the first revelations were made by Andy Woodward, but it's now becoming patently clear that football had a sex abuse culture in previous generations (and who's to say it's gone away?)

Woodward revealed the harrowing sexual abused he was subjected to by Crewe Alexandra youth coach Barry Burnell, and this was corroborated by several more ex-players, all of whom were young kids at the time.

Sure enough, the bravery of those men in telling their stories has encouraged and inspired more victims to come forward, who were hitherto too scared to speak.

Newcastle and Chelsea are two more clubs who have been implicated, with the latter being accused of paying a player off with a gagging order to ensure the sex abuse enacted by ex-coach Eddie Heath never came out.

Dario Gradi knew about it and covered up

The Independent exclusively report fresh information concerning Chelsea, as a former player claims that Dario Gradi covered up the sex abuse claims made about Eddie Heath.

Gradi was a young Chelsea assistant coach at the time, and it's claimed he knew of the systematic child abuse, and ensured it never became known to the public by smoothing things over with the parents.

The unnamed ex-Chelsea player says:

"He [Mr Gradi] came to visit my parents and me to smooth it over. I remember him saying something like: '[With] Eddie, [football] is his life and he gets a bit close to the boys. I'm sorry if he's overstepped the mark in his fondness this time.'"

This accusation made at Gradi is particularly significant, as Gradi was also at Crewe for the entire time of Barry Burnell's systematic sexual abuse of kids.

Gradi has not been accused of any actual abuse, but if he knew about sexual molestation at Chelsea, are we really supposed to believe he knew nothing about Burnell abusing children at Crewe, given the gravity of those revelations?



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