Well, what a week of wasted moral outrage that was, even if it did produce one of The Sun’s finest headlines for a very long time. Make no mistake. “Splatter Blatter” will have sold extra copies of the red-top, but do nothing to remove the Teflon Man himself, whose life’s achievement has been to carve [...]
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 [...]
That’s ‘whack’ in the sense of a Mafia hit, it’s going to be very hard for FIFA president Sepp Blatter to recover from the assault launched on him yesterday by Coca-Cola and Adidas, two of FIFA’s and world football’s biggest sponsors. Coca-Cola said that the current state of FIFA, which organises World Cups, was “distressing” [...]
Well it’s no doubt worth lots of money to someone or other (the media broker presumably) but card giant Visa must have a few worries about its decision to team with News International for exclusive plugging rights for its sponsorship and ‘presenting partner’ status (whatever that may be) for Team 2012, the British Olympics team. [...]
Simon Greenberg, who has just been appointed head of corporate affairs at News International, is used to stiff challenges. From 2004 to 2009 he was comms head at Chelsea Football Club, battling a sceptical and sometimes defiantly hostile bunch of sports hacks over the activities of moneybags proprietor Roman Abramovitch and various managers including the [...]
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 [...]
But what’s it got to do with them? Well UK supermarket group William Morrison was one of the sponsors of the unsuccessful England 2018 World Cup bid, investing £1m in a process costing £18m that gained just two votes out of 22 and a first round exit when the votes of the FIFA executives were [...]
And if you believe that you’ll believe anything. BBC director general Mark Thompson told Sunday’s Andrew Marr Show that the reason the corporation’s Panorama FIFA programme, which essentially broadcast some warmed-over material about bribery that referred to events at least ten years old, went out three days before the 2018 World Cup bid was decided [...]
I heard this first on the radio and there was definitely an outbreak of Beatles-type screaming before FIFA boss Sepp Blatter had actually announced the winner of the competition to host the 2018 World Cup. For some reason the skewed old Swiss watch repeated himself but that didn’t stop the Russian supporters bursting into cheers [...]
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