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By Stephen Foster on July 13, 2012
Former England football captain John Terry was acquitted today in a magistrate’s court (not a criminal court) of calling rival footballer Anton Ferdinand a “fucking black cunt.” Terry’s defence was that Ferdinand had used these words to him and Terry had repeated them back to him, with satirical intent. Now if you believe this you’ll [...]
Posted in Clients, Media, News | Tagged Anton Ferdinand, BT, court case, football association, John Terry, Premier League, racist language, sky
By Stephen Foster on February 10, 2012
The ongoing comedy of who’s to be England football manager continues with Tottenham’s Harry Redknapp, recently acquitted of tax evasion charges, the ‘people’s choice.’ But the Football Association, the antideluvian body that runs the English game at grass roots level and also the England team (unfortunately) is desperate not to appoint the Spurs manager. Why? [...]
Posted in Clients, Media, News | Tagged Brian Clough, celtic, David Bernstein, england football manager, Fabio Capello, football association, Harry Redknapp, leicester, Martin O'Neill, nottingham forest, sunderland, tottenham hotspur, wycombe
By Stephen Foster on February 8, 2012
Let’s try to look at this logically. Football is a big business in the UK (BSkyB’s humungous profits depend on it, almost entirely). We have a very expensive Premier League of high-performing clubs, some of whose players are English. The finances of the England team depend on the willingness of supporters and commercial backers, sponsors, [...]
Posted in Clients, Finance, Media, News, PR | Tagged 1966, Anton Ferdinand, bskyb, David Bernstein, england manager, Euro finals, fa chairman, Fabio Capello, football association, James Lawton, John Terry, manchester city, Patrick Barclay, Peter Scudamore, Rio Ferdinand, sponsors, Wayne Rooney, wembley stadium, world cup
By Stephen Foster on February 1, 2012
The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority has banned a McCann Erickson ad for L’Oreal’s Revitalift Repair anti-ageing cream as the picture of L’Oreal ‘brand ambassador’ and Oscar-winning actress Rachel Weisz was ‘digitally enhanced.’ Actually it’s had more retouching than the average collapsing Old Master painting (montage of the real Rachel and L’Oreal’s version from The Telegraph). [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Media, News | Tagged ad ban, advertising standards authority, asa, Daniel Craig, football association, james bond star, L'Oreal, mccann-erickson, Rachel weisz, revitalift repair anti-ageing cream
By James Charlton on June 2, 2011
David Bernstein is no stranger to controversy. He was non-executive chairman of French Connection during its “f.c.u.k” ad campaign in 1997, created by the mercurial Trevor Beattie at TBWA and banned from time to time by the Advertising Standards Authority. It was ultimately successful for the clothing label. Bernstein has also a held a number [...]
Posted in Media, News, Politics | Tagged argentina, british press, corruption, David Bernstein, Dennis Skinner, falkland islands, fifa, football association, Helen Mirren, Julio Grondona, manchester city, Sepp Blatter, Sun, Telegraph, The Queen
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 [...]
Posted in Clients, News, Politics | Tagged Alan Sugar, Alisher Usmanov, arsenal, David Bernstein, David Dein, fcuk, fifa, football association, pentland, reebok, Sepp Blatter, Sir David Richards, Sir Keith Mills
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