Keepy-Uppy
‘HERES another story about the Football Association to make you wonder what it is they do at headquarters all day.
| Mutu faces a stiff sentence |
The Express says that David Beckham will not be charged with bringing the game into disrepute, being a yob or whatever his crime was in deliberately fouling Wales Ben Thatcher, because get this there is insufficient evidence to charge him.
Given that, as the Sun says, Beckham admitted targeting the Welsh defender to earn himself a yellow card and was seen enacting the foul by millions on TV, this is odd.
Perhaps if Becks were to text message his confession to the limp-wrists at Soho Square, theyd take matters more seriously.
Or, perhaps, he could tell all to one of the FAs secretaries, who could then pass it on to the highest bidder?
This might not be as bad as Anarchy At The FA, as the Mail screams from its back page, but when the player himself says he is pleasantly surprised to have got off scot-free, something seems to have gone awry.
Meanwhile, the Adrian Mutu case rumbles on. In the Sun, the Romanian now says that he did not take cocaine and will soon tell all.
The Mirror gives its readers a clue as to the nature of the banned substance he tested positive for, using its back page to say how Mutu took drugs to boost his sex life.
I am not hooked on drugs, says Mutu. The only reason I took what I took was that I wanted to improve my sexual performance. It may be funny but it is true.
Hes right it is funny. And pathetic. But what is less amusing is the Suns news that the test that snared Mutu was not so random.
The story goes that it was requested by Jose Mourinho, the Chelsea manger, who had already exchanged words with Mutu, and may have been out for some kind of revenge.
Mutu even admits that during one heated debate, he almost hit the Portuguese manager.
And on the subject of violence in football, the Sun hypes up Sundays game between Arsenal and Manchester United a notch by hearting from Uniteds Gabriel Heinz.
In ITS GUNNER GET UGLY, the defender says he and his team-mates are ready to scrap and claw their way to victory.
Well do everything we can to stop them, says he. We want to win whatever the cost.
Which sounds very much like the Red Devils may have finally learnt something from last seasons encounter after all…’
Posted: 22nd, October 2004 | In: Back pages Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
