The lawyer who helped set up a new trust to raise money for footballers who were sexually abused as young players has claimed gagging orders have been used by "a number" of clubs.
Chelsea on Saturday apologised to former player Gary Johnson for the abuse he suffered as a trainee in the 1970s, having waived the confidentiality clause in the £50,000 agreement they made with Johnson in 2015.
That allowed Johnson, now 57, to tell the Daily Mirror last week that he was assaulted multiple times over a three-year period by the club's chief scout Eddie Heath, who is now dead.