An abuse survivor says the Sheldon Review into historical sexual abuse within football is as "dilute as Vimto for two-year-olds".
The review was published on Wednesday and looked at abuse between 1970 and 2005, what the Football Association knew and did about it, and recommendations for improving safeguarding in the future.
Ian Ackley, who was raped hundreds of times by serial abuser Barry Bennell between 1979 and 1983, hoped the review would go further and recommend independent, external oversight of the Football Association's child protection measures.
Ackley's account of the abuse he suffered at the hands of Bennell featured in a 1997 Dispatches documentary, and his testimony along with other survivors led to the imposition of Bennell's first custodial sentence in the UK in 1998.
He now works as a support advocate for other survivors of football abuse, and has reported a "spike" in referrals since Cheshire Police circulated a letter about his service to other Bennell survivors in advance of a BBC documentary series being aired from Monday.
On the impact of the review's release, he said: "It's not easy, it's been a long time coming.
"It's a moment in time that people have been waiting for and however you view it – good, bad or indifferent or a mixture of all those things – we're at the point where we can say this is another thing we can put behind us, that's not in front of us, and as such hopefully we can draw some sort of line in the sand and move forward with our lives in a positive and constructive way.
"I think every survivor is hoping that is what they can get back to – some sense of enjoying a quality of life."
