ABSTRACT
Events over recent years have been characterised by heated and contradictory debate about both the nature of the problems and what should be done. As a consequence those who are given responsibility for doing something about child abuse, particularly [the FA], have found themselves practising in an area which is increasingly complex, ambiguous, [and] where they have to finely balance actions and interventions which may be constructed as doing too little too late (thus putting children at risk ... ), or doing too much too early (and hence being seen as undermining the rights and responsibilities of [coaches] and interfering unwarrantably into the privacy of the [football club].
