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Top Premier League football figure interviewed by police over rape claim was at centre of separate probe into allegation that he attacked girl, 15, in the 1990s

A leading figure in Premier League football who was recently interviewed by the police over a rape allegation was separately accused of raping a 15-year-old girl, according to reports.

As detectives continue to examine the ongoing complaint, it has emerged that he was simultaneously being investigated by a second police force for an alleged rape and possible child-sex offence from the 1990s, the Athletic reported.