A Football Association report into the circumstances surrounding former Sheffield United player Maddy Cusack’s death is complete and will be shared with a coroner by the end of this week. The pre-inquest review hearing into Cusack’s death took place at Chesterfield Coroners’ Court on Monday, with ex-Blades boss Jonathan Morgan in attendance along with the club’s current chief executive Stephen Bettis.
Morgan was the subject of a written complaint by the Cusack family to United within a week of Maddy’s death on September 20, 2023. The complaint outlined a range of issues she had been facing which they said all stemmed from her relationship with Morgan.
In January last year the FA confirmed it had opened an investigation into the circumstances surrounding Cusack’s death, and on Monday the governing body’s legal counsel Stephen Walsh told the coroner the report was now complete and would be shared with coroner Sophie Cartwright by Friday.
Walsh added: “We may make an overarching observation to you that substantial elements of the report are relevant to a disciplinary investigation under FA rules.”. The FA said at the time the investigation was opened that its purpose was “to understand whether or not any further action is required under our jurisdiction within football”.
Walsh said the report was still being independently reviewed. Sheffield United’s own investigation, which concluded in December 2023, found no evidence of wrongdoing. United sacked Morgan in February last year after information came to light about a relationship he had with a player while he was in charge at Leicester. His dismissal was not related to the FA investigation, but was welcomed by the Cusack family.
