Ex-football coach: massaging of young players was not sexual

Bob Higgins tells court he was treating boys for cramp and denies allegations of abuse

A former Southampton FC schoolboy football coach has told a jury that he gave young players soapy water massages and may have touched their testicles.

But Bob Higgins, who also coached at Peterborough United, insisted that any contact would have been purely accidental and denied that he sexually abused junior players.

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from Football | The Guardian http://bit.ly/2ZMD2AK