A Lot Of Nonsense
‘IT goes without saying that the Football Association could not organise the proverbial piss-up in a brewery, but even by their standards this is a complete farce.
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According to the Mirror, the FA issued its denial that Sven Goran Eriksson had slept with Soho Square secretary Faria Alam on the basis of one very brief telephone conversation.
More specifically, on the basis of three words from the England coach This is nonsense.
It is on the interpretation of those three words, apparently, that the Swedes future rests…and you dont need to be Bill Clintons lawyer to suggest that they are somewhat ambiguous.
What defies belief is that, if he was planning to issue a denial, FA executive director David Davies did not see fit to ask Eriksson point blank whether the story was true or not.
Instead, the organisation charged with looking after our national sport ensued that once again it is a complete laughing stock by retracting its denial after only a couple of days.
Our guess is that Eriksson will survive the FA have invested too much money in him to sack him on such trivial, and disputed, grounds.
And, as the Mirror shows, he still has a number of powerful supporters on the FA board which will meet to decide his fate.
However, the Mail stealing yesterdays Anorak headline (Its Not If, but Sven) says the Swedes hopes of survival have all but disappeared.
It quotes an FA insider as saying: If you can lie to your employers once, as Sven has done in the past regarding his dealings with Chelsea, you can lie to them again.
Its a capital offence. If thats what has happened, hes got to go.
But a senior FA source sums it up when he says, It all comes down to whether he was asked the right questions by David [Davies].
And, if the Mirror is to be believed, the answer would appear to be no.
The Sun claims that Eriksson will probably be allowed to waddle on as a lame duck manager for the next two years purely because the FA cant afford to sack him.
David Safe Hands Seaman knows a bit about playing away he abandoned his first wife and kids to shack up with PR girl Debbie.
But he tells the Sun that he thinks Patrick Vieira should stay at Arsenal.
The Premier League is fantastic, he says. Everyone wants to come and play here. England is the place to be at the moment.
Ive never played abroad, but I wouldnt want to go out there.
Quite right whos to say what you might catch out there. Not to mention the food. And the people. And the fact that you might bump into Posh Spice…’
Posted: 29th, July 2004 | In: Back pages Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
