This time, vanity and resentmenthandbags are playing havoc with the submission, which has been described as "lightweight" by Jack Warner, a leading Fifa powerbroker, and has already endured the obligatory free-gift brouhaha. The Mulberry handbags intended to delight the wives of Fifa's 24 executive committee members ended up being wielded against England's bid with a force Lady Thatcher would have envied.This self-indulgent wrangling may already have ruined England's case to bring the game it invented "home" for the first time in more than 50 years. If the feuding chieftains cannot run a bid, why should they be trusted to run a World Cup? Few at Fifa will want to reward this self-destructive behaviour if Spain and Portugal, Russia and Australia can mount a more convincing argument.
But it placed him on a crash coach handbagscourse with a league that is now more powerful than the FA, itself weighed down by Wembley's construction cost and losses. Yesterday Richards took revenge.
The real story here is a ram-raid by the Premier League on the FA chairman and former New Labour apparatchik, Lord Triesman, who aroused the hostility of the top 20 clubs by attacking their levels of corporate debt. Triesman's belief that the English game is borrowing itself to oblivion has some validity.
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