High court judge makes ruling over abuse suffered by eight schoolboy footballers more than 30 years ago
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Manchester City cannot be held responsible for the abuse suffered by eight men at the hands of the paedophile Barry Bennell more than 30 years ago, a high court judge has ruled.
The claimants, now in their 40s and 50s, said Bennell, 68, abused them when they were playing schoolboy
Football for teams he coached in north-west
England between 1979 and 1985.