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Manchester United is facing legal action over a historic sexual abuse allegation against a former employee.

The allegation is understood to relate to Billy Watts, a former caretaker and groundsman at the club’s Cliff training ground in Salford during the 1980s.

Watts, who died in 2009, has been accused of subjecting the male victim to 'sexual and physical abuse when he was a child'.

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The civil claim alleges that the club failed to protect the claimant from abuse while he was under their care and supervision. The civil claim has been issued in court by Simpson Millar Solicitors.

Lawyers have claimed the club has so far declined to 'engage constructively' with the legal process, despite its previous participati

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