City Looking Into Bullying Probe

Last updated : 30 September 2018 By CNS Sport

According to the Scottish Sun newspaper, Coventry City are investigating claims of historical bullying.of a trialist.

Kevin Thomson, the former Scottish international, who is now a coach with Rangers, claims thats he was bullied as a 15 year old, nearly twenty years ago, while he was at the club.

He has told the Daily Record: “I lived in a lodge with a group of older lads. 

“They weren’t very nice to me and I found that difficult. It’s actually quite personal for me to talk about it even now. 

“They used to tell me it was a backhanded compliment when they took me into the boot room, battered me and put boot polish on my balls. 

“You can laugh about it now but as a 15-year-old boy, away from home, I never found it overly funny. 

“They thought it was all normal banter for young guys in a changing room but I found it difficult to adjust to – people coming into your room and turning it upside down. 

“Being the butt of everyone’s jokes. I couldn’t adjust to it. I felt isolated and alone.

“The highlight of the week would be jumping over the back fence to get some sweeties at the corner shop. I found it really difficult.

“I missed my mum. I’m a home boy brought up in Peebles and I was popular amongst my own friends.

“It got to the stage whenever I came back up the road I would deliberately miss my flights back down south.

“My mum would drop me at the airport on time and I’d sit there waiting for the last call for Mr Kevin Thomson.

“I just couldn’t get on that plane.

“You can imagine the friction that put on my relationship with my mum and dad because they knew what a great opportunity it was for me.