A Football Association study into the circumstances surrounding the decease of erstwhile Sheffield United subordinate Maddy Cusack recovered respective players "did not consciousness supported and felt incapable to rise concerns" astatine the club.
The FA commissioned the study successful aboriginal 2024, following the midfielder's death, aged 27, successful September 2023, and it has not yet been published.
A proceeding connected Tuesday astatine Chesterfield Coroners' Court was told the transcript of the study that had been shared with the household and others was "provisional", and would lone beryllium finalised astatine the decision of the inquest.
However, Dean Armstrong KC - representing the Cusack household - quoted excerpts from it, including that "most [players] peculiarly did not consciousness supported and felt incapable to rise complaints against their manager and others".
He besides work different portion of the study that stated "the probe has shed airy connected the resourcing issues peculiarly acute successful the women's crippled and the related payment and safeguarding issues that mightiness arise".
Nottingham-born Cusack was the archetypal subordinate to scope 100 appearances for Sheffield United, having started her vocation astatine Aston Villa and had spells astatine Birmingham and Leicester City.
Ex-Blades manager Jonathan Morgan, who was appearing via video link, accused Cusack's household of "manipulating information" and fuelling a "narrative" successful the 18 months since she died.
He said witnesses enactment guardant by the household were "very one-sided" and determination was "no-one to situation the credibility of those individuals".
Morgan added radical who did not "echo" the views of the household had been "cast aside", and requested that helium beryllium permitted to enactment guardant witnesses.
Coroner Sophie Cartwright is owed to contented a written judgement pursuing submissions connected issues including the scope of the inquest and witnesses.
Lawyers representing the Cusack household alleged determination was a "climate of interest and fear" astatine Sheffield United successful the play starring up to the footballer's death.
It was alleged 1 witnesser recalled Morgan labelling a subordinate "cancerous".
They person requested for her inquest beryllium held successful beforehand of a jury.
Mr Armstrong KC said determination was a "clear nationalist interest" successful a assemblage examining the "position of young susceptible people, evidently successful this lawsuit peculiarly and principally Maddy, often females, who are susceptible and the grade to which they are susceptible to the power that those successful elder positions clasp implicit them successful nonrecreational oregon important sporting contexts".
He added: "There was past and determination continues to beryllium a important quality betwixt the men's crippled and the women's crippled successful presumption of assets but besides successful presumption of however radical are dealt with.
"There is that important nationalist involvement successful looking astatine however radical behaviour themselves wrong the women's crippled and what the enactment web is for those susceptible females specified arsenic Maddy."
No day has been acceptable for the inquest but it volition not instrumentality spot until October 2025 astatine the earliest.
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