DARTS legend Eric Bristow has sparked outrage after wading into the football sex scandal saying if he was touched when he was kid he would have ‘sorted the p**f out’.
He also hinted football players aren’t ‘proper men’ like ‘tough guy’ darts stars saying today’s soccer stars are ‘wimps’.
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The five-times world champion tweeted tonight that he would not have waited for the authorities to intervene if someone was ‘touching him’ as a child.
On his official account, Eric Bristow MBE he tweeted: ‘Might be a looney but if some football coach was touching me when I was a kid as i got older i would have went back and sorted that p**f out.
‘U got to sort him out when u get older or don’t look in the mirror glad i am a dart player proper men.’
The 59-year-old added: ‘Darts players tough guys footballers wimps.’
But Bristow soon found himself under attack from Twitter users who claimed he ‘must be drunk’ and would regret his posts ‘when he sobered up’.
Others accused the sporting hero of being ‘homophobic’, ‘out of touch’, ’embarrassing’ and a ‘disgrace’.
One even called for him to be stripped of his MBE.
But the arrows ace stood by his words saying others in TV were frightened to say ‘the truth’ in case they lost their jobs.
However, he did later say he meant to say paedo and not p**f in his original tweet.
Trouble is nowadays u cant tell the truth what do u feel out there tweet me
.@ericbristow Truth? the truth is, you are openly mocking victims of child sex abuse. You really should be ashamed of yourself.
U people replying don't twist what i sent out, i tell the truth if u dont like it tough
@ericbristow you're homophobic and ignorant. Saying peadophiles are "poofs" like you put it is not only stupid, it's really harmful.
Bristow’s ‘insensitive’ comments will send shock waves through a sport already reeling from a hidden scandal dating back decades.
The ex-youth football coach Barry Bennell, who is at the centre of the sex abuse scandal, has now been taken to hospital after being found unconscious after an apparent suicide attempt.
The convicted sex offender was found at an address in Knebworth Park, Stevenage on Friday, Thames Valley Police said.
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The force said it was called to a "fear for welfare" incident and the 62-year-old was still in hospital.
Bennell was named last week by several former footballers who alleged they were abused as children.
Five police forces are now investigating claims of historical abuse.
Former Crewe player Andy Woodward was the first to speak out about the abuse he said he suffered at the hands of Bennell.
Bennell, who also worked for Manchester City, Stoke and junior teams in north-west England and the Midlands, was given a four-year sentence for raping a British boy on a football tour of Florida in 1994 and a nine-year sentence in 1998 for 23 offences against six boys in England.
He was jailed for a third time in 2015 after admitting abusing a boy at a 1980 football camp in Macclesfield.
Bennell was said to have moved out of his home in Milton Keynes when the new allegations came to light.
Football's world governing body Fifa said in a statement: "We are aware of the allegations. Fifa considers the protection of children and young people as fundamental in football and we will monitor the situation closely."
Meanwhile, Conservative MP Damian Collins, the culture, media and sport committee chairman told the BBC the FA review needed to establish if there was a cultural problem in the sport.
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