Bullying

[The Pipe]

See Cardiff City have admitted serious bullying issues at their Academy following numerous complaints.

Seems to be endemic at academies up and down the country and I am sure many more complaints will be forthcoming from parents and youngsters.

Lot of the complaints seem to be aimed at ex professionals, Bellamy at Cardiff Beardsley at Newcastle etc and I wonder whether it’s just a case of following on from how they were treated as young players and some serious education needs to take place before just employing ex pros at clubs

 

[SpiderBee]

See Cardiff City have admitted serious bullying issues at their Academy following numerous complaints.

Seems to be endemic at academies up and down the country and I am sure many more complaints will be forthcoming from parents and youngsters.

Lot of the complaints seem to be aimed at ex professionals, Bellamy at Cardiff Beardsley at Newcastle etc and I wonder whether it’s just a case of following on from how they were treated as young players and some serious education needs to take place before just employing ex pros at clubs

Totally agree with your last paragraph.

 

[mhead bee]

The bullying of YTS kids back in the day was all part and parcel of being a young footballer, it turned you into a man back then but f you look back at it now it is bloody awful. I am sure Bellamy etc were bullied back in the day and they don't know any better but I also think a lot of them would be bullies if they weren't football players.

I met Beardsley once and he was a *****, maybe it was a bad night for him but arrogant wasn't the word. Lineker was clearly fed up of the attention but talked to loads of people and John Barnes was throwing shapes on the dance floor smiling and laughing with everyone.