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Le Tissier given ‘naked massage’
- Updated: December 6, 2016
Matt Le Tissier has revealed he experienced a “naked massage” incident when he was a young player at Southampton during the 1980s.
Le Tissier joined Saints as a teenager in October 1985, and made his first-team debut aged 17 in August of the following year. He went on to make over 440 league appearances for the club.
Speaking on the day the Football Association widened its inquiry into non-recent sexual abuse in the game, the former England international said what he witnessed and was subjected to as a teenager at Southampton was “disgusting”.
Speaking to the BBC about the massage incident, he said: “Everyone was kind of naked and getting thrown on this bed… and a very quick massage – it was uncomfortable. It’s very, very wrong for a start – looking back on it, you think it is wrong but as a young boy, you thought ‘is this normal?’
“It’s pretty disgusting. What went on is not normal …
