Depends how old the players are, and whether the coach is taking advantage of his position. The people at Bristol shouldn't have been the people to decide, it should have been independent.

Unlawful, maybe not, but against the rules, that's a lot harder to determine without seeing the contract and bylaws of employment as a coach and FA regulatory guidelines.

Just because something isn't a crime, doesn't mean its by default legal either.

We've just had a series of cases come up where 'allegations' were dealt with in house, and that resulted in systematic abuse.

No one should be 'policing themselves', if we're going to learn anything from the last couple of generations, its that organisations look to themselves, before they look to the rights of others.

33-40% meet their partners at work. I don't think the issue is whether 10 girls in the office want to have sex with you, but whether you use your position as their manager to have sex with them, and as a result treat them differently to the others.

And if its in the contract you signed, when you joined - then you're immediately in breach.

The whole thing is ridiculous.

Once people are over the age of consent and working it's almost verging upon religious zealotry for people to tell others who they can and can't shag.

It makes sense when you send your child to a school but situations like this when people are over age and working....too far.

More to the point, the whole thing was dealt with before and everyone moved on.
Can people now be punished for stuff they did years ago because of a revised attitude toward it? Not to mention, a very convenient attitude at a convenient time for the FA and the Parliamentary investigation.

It stinks.