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As a "separate legal entity", the club accepts no responsibility for the actions of Torbett, McCafferty, King or anyone else. Lawyers pursuing the civil action on behalf of the 21 say they are determined to "knock down the defensive wall" that the parent club have erected in order to protect its reputation.
作为“独立法人”，俱乐部对托贝特、麦考夫迪、金或其他任何人的行为概不负责。代表这21人提起民事诉讼的律师们表示，他们决心“推倒”俱乐部为保护其声誉而竖起的“防御墙”。
On the walls of the main meeting room at Thompsons Solicitors in Glasgow's Bath Street are framed photographs of trade union banners from the glory days of the Scottish labour movement. They are a reminder that much of the law firm's work concerns industrial injury: they have sought compensation for retired workers from shipyards, docks and building industries whose lives were blighted by asbestosis. In recent years, Thompsons has taken up the fight for the survivors of child sexual abuse.
在格拉斯哥巴斯街的汤姆森律师事务所，主会议室的墙上挂着镶有镜框的苏格兰劳工运动辉煌时期工会横幅的照片。它们提醒人们该律师事务所的大部分工作都与工伤有关：他们曾为造船厂、码头和建筑行业的那些生活受到石棉肺影响的退休工人寻求赔偿。近年来，汤普森开始为儿童性虐待的幸存者们而战。
Patrick McGuire, a veteran of industrial injury cases, is the senior lawyer in the Boys Club case. "When you look in the archives at The Celtic View, you see regular processions of Boys Club players on the field in front of crowds at Celtic Park," McGuire said. "It is obvious there was no distinction whatsoever. The club's in-house newspaper talks about the Boys Club being 'part of the Celtic family' and one former manager described the youth side as the 'base of the pyramid' of the entire club."
帕特里克·麦圭尔是处理工伤案件的老手，也是男孩俱乐部一案的高级律师。麦圭尔说：“在‘凯尔特观点’查看档案时，你会发现男孩俱乐部的球员会定期在凯尔特公园人群前的球场上列队。很明显两者之间没有任何区别。俱乐部的内部报纸称男孩俱乐部是‘凯尔特人家庭的一部分’，一位前经理形容青年队是整个俱乐部的‘金字塔的底部’。”
For the survivors and their families, the long fight for justice has been punishing. Michelle Gray and her mother, Helen, say they have been subject to a campaign of intimidation over the last two years for daring to speak out against the club. The threats started when they attended Torbett's second trial in 2018. "One big man among Torbett's supporters outside the courtroom even said out loud that my mother and me were 'dirty lying bastards.' This was in October 2018," she recalled. "This was Torbett's second conviction and there were still people turning up to support him. We were stared at and heard them say that Andy was a 'dirty lying bastard' even though my brother was already dead."
对于幸存者和他们的家人来说，为正义而进行的长期斗争是一种惩罚。米歇尔·格雷和她的母亲海伦说，在过去的两年里，他们因为敢于公开反对俱乐部而受到威胁。这些威胁始于2018年他们参加托贝特的第二次审判。“托贝特支持者里的一个大个子甚至在法庭外大声说我和母亲是‘肮脏的撒谎的混蛋’。那是2018年10月，”她回忆说。“那是托贝特第二次被定罪，但仍有人站出来支持他。我们被盯着看，听到他们说安迪是个‘肮脏的撒谎的混蛋’，虽然我的弟弟已经死了。”
The trolling and social ostracisation of the Gray family has continued. Michelle's car has been vandalised. "When we went public and said we were joining the civil action against Celtic, I received a death threat on the phone. The level of abuse on social media over the last few months has also been appalling. People have even blanked my mother, who is in her 70s, on the street."
对格雷家族的挑衅和社会排斥仍在继续。米歇尔的车被破坏了。“当我们公开宣布我们将加入对凯尔特的民事诉讼时，我接到了一个死亡威胁电话。过去几个月社交媒体上的虐待程度也令人震惊，甚至在街上有人对我70多岁的母亲视而不见。”
For Gordon Woods, the toll of this battle for justice has been enormous. "Since this all began in September 2019 with me contacting Thompsons, I have gone from weighing 75 kilos to 55 kilos. I went to the doctors, got all kinds of tests and the results came back, there was nothing physically wrong with me. The GP agreed it could only be one thing – pure stress. But the stresses and pressures are not going to stop me. I have been quiet for 50 years, so I am not going to stop now. I am not going to be silenced by anyone any more."
对戈登·伍兹来说这场正义之战的代价是巨大的。“自2019年9月我联系汤普森开始这一切以来，我的体重从75公斤减到了55公斤。我去看了医生，做了各种检查，结果出来了，我的身体没有任何问题。全科医生认为这可能只有一个原因——纯粹的压力。但是压力也阻止不了我。我已经沉默了50年，现在我不会放弃，没有人能够让我再次沉默。”
