The former Sheffield United goalkeeper Nina Wilson has told an inquest that she had “tried to escalate concerns” about the manager Jonathan Morgan prior to her teammate Maddy Cusack’s death in 2023, but she did not feel she was listened to.
Wilson, who told the hearing that she had ended her own football career when she was aged 25 because of those experiences, said that neither she nor Cusack had known who the club’s safeguarding officer was, and she listed a series of recommendations to the court, including calling for whistleblowing routes to be clearer to players and for mental health education to be a mandatory part of coaching qualification courses.
