If you're going to pull a gun in a fight, be damned sure you know how to use it.
Levelling unparticularised allegations about the most heinous of all sporting "crimes" and then back tracking is suicide. You go there, you follow it through to the death (either you or them). Even if there is something in it, the powers that be are already mincing their words and have lost the faith and support of the public (and I dare say the bodies) and the clubs involved are on the front foot now.
Fucking amatuers - trying to make political name for themselves and senior public servants making sure they justify re-employment before the change of government. Meanwhile besmirching everyone that has played professional sport in the past 5 years.