By Stephen Foster on May 25, 2011
What happens on the pitch is only half of it in football these days (but it always has been a game of two halves) with footballers clogging up the courts with injunctions and boardroom battles. London Premiership team Arsenal, for decades supposedly run by gentlemen in contrast to the vulgar types in charge at other [...]
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By Stephen Foster on December 23, 2010
It’s hard to find anybody with a bad word to say about David Bernstein, the former Manchester City chairman and FCUK director, who has been elected chairman of the Football Association. But nobody has many brave words to say for him either. Alan Sugar, who would have liked the job, tweeted: “He never offends anyone [...]
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By Stephen Foster on November 30, 2010
“It should have been on the History Channel,” said David Dein, former director of Arsenal, of the BBC Panorama programme on bribery at FIFA, the governing body of world football. Dein, who is now trying to apply sticking plaster to England’s bid for the FIFA 2018 World Cup which will be decided in Zurich on [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged Andrew Jennings, Andy Anson, BBC, David Dein, england world cup bid 2018, fifa, isl, Mark Thompson, panorama
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