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The incident took place one evening in 1968, when, Woods claims, Torbett took a group of boys to a toyshop on Maryhill Road in the West End of Glasgow. "It was called Joe's Toy Shop, and we were taken there on the pretext of labelling mini plastic versions of the European Cup, which celebrated Celtic being the first British winner of that tournament. It was our task to put the words on tiny paper stickers on the cups.
伍茲稱，這一事件發生在1968年的一個晚上，當時托貝特帶著一群男孩去格拉斯哥西區瑪麗希爾路的一家玩具店。“那家店的名字叫喬玩具店，我們被帶到那里的借口是給歐洲杯的迷你塑料版貼標簽，慶祝凱爾特成為該賽事的首位英國冠軍。我們的任務是把這些字貼在杯子上的小貼紙上。
"Torbett asked me to go into the back of the shop and get a box of the mini cups. He followed me into the storeroom. I turned around and saw that he had taken his penis out. He grabbed my neck and tried to forced me to give him oral sex. When I got out of his grasp I left. I remember walking all through the night. It took me hours to get home. I was only 14."
托貝特讓我到店后面去買一盒迷你杯子，他跟著我進了儲藏室。我轉過身看見他把自己的小弟弟掏了出來，然后抓住我的脖子強迫我給他口交，我掙脫他的控制后就離開了。我記得自己走了一整夜，花了好幾個小時才到家，那時候我才14歲。”
Following this incident, Woods missed a couple of training sessions. Shortly after that, Torbett's attitude toward him completely changed. "Torbett took me aside one evening after Thursday training. He said: 'Our friendship is over', and informed me I should not come back to the Boys Club." To the young hopeful, it was devastating news. "It was the end of my dream and I was distraught."
在那次事件之后伍茲缺席了幾次訓練。之后不久托貝特對他的態度完全改變了。“周四訓練后的一個晚上，托貝特把我帶到一邊。他說‘我們的友誼結束了’，還讓我不要再回男孩俱樂部了。”對于懷揣夢想的年輕人來說這一消息太具毀滅性了。“我的夢想就這樣結束了，我簡直悲痛欲絕。”
Years later, he discovered what he understands to be the reason Torbett dismissed him from the club. After the incident in the toyshop, he had written an anguished letter to Torbett, but he didn't send it. His father found the letter at their home, quizzed his son about what had been going on, and finally decided to inform Jock Stein, the club's manager, directly about his concerns.
多年后他知曉了一件事，他覺得那件事便是托貝特開除自己的原因。在那次玩具店事件之后他寫了一封痛苦的信給托貝特，但是并沒有把信寄出去。他的父親在家里發現了那封信并詢問兒子事情的緣由，最后父親決定直接把自己的擔憂告訴了俱樂部的經理喬克·斯坦。
Woods' mother told him about the letter in November 1998. "About a week before my mother died, I was with her at her home just outside Colchester," Woods recalled. "Jim Torbett was in the news, because his first trial was being held in Scotland. She told me that back in 1968, Dad had found my letter to Torbett. She recalled that I wrote 'Stop hurting me!' Dad told her he put it in an envelope and posted it to Celtic Park, care of Jock Stein."
伍茲的母親于1998年11月告訴了他關于這封信的事情。伍茲回憶說：“大約就在我母親去世的前一周，我和她在科爾切斯特郊外的家里”。因為吉姆·托貝特的初審是在蘇格蘭進行的，所以他上了新聞。她告訴我1968年的時候爸爸發現了我寫給托貝特的信。她記得我寫了‘別再傷害我了!’爸爸讓她把那封信裝進信封寄到了“凱爾特人公園球場”，由喬克·斯坦轉交。”
Woods now suspects that someone saw the letter and told Torbett. "Torbett wanted me out of the club, without any proper explanation."
伍茲現在懷疑有人看到了這封信并告訴了托貝特。“托貝特想讓我離開俱樂部，但是沒有給我一個合理的解釋。”
Although the letter has never been recovered, and there is no proof that it reached Stein, Woods wants this episode to form part of his evidence in the civil case. What is clear is that Torbett continued abusing young players after Gordon Woods left the Boys Club.
雖說這封信一直沒有找到，也沒有證據表明它后來到了斯坦的手里，但伍茲希望這段插曲能夠成為他在民事案件中的證據。我們能夠確定的就是，在戈登·伍茲離開男孩俱樂部之后，托貝特還在繼續虐待年輕球員。
