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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Paul MacInnes

Dario Gradi to lose MBE after failing to protect children from sexual abuse

Dario Gradi
Dario Gradi, the former Crewe manager, was banned from football by the FA after the revelations of the Sheldon Review in 2021. Photograph: Catherine Ivill/AMA/Getty Images

The disgraced football coach Dario Gradi is to be stripped of his MBE after complaints made by survivors of child sexual abuse.

The Offside Trust, a group formed by survivors of sexual abuse in sport, wrote to the Cabinet Office in 2021 asking that Gradi lose the MBE he received for services to football more than two decades previously. After a two-year process, an official forfeiture will be enacted this week.

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