Lord Triesman

[JudgeRed]

Another one bites the dust
Don't like posting an article from the daily hate mail but its going to be big news anyway so don't matter.

Well set-up by the sneaky woman but I wonder how much they paid her to sting him.

75 grand apparently- brokered by Max Clifford.

[-V-]

Cheers. Not a bad little pay-out then

[Baracus]

Don't think it was a sting by the Mail.

Darren Lewis was on talksport this morning and said the Mirror and news of the world both turned down the story.
Seems the bint did it herself then touted it round for a big payday.

National interest? Maybe the papers did not want to mess up england's chances of hosting the world cup..but the daily mail don't really care except for 'headline grabbing sales'

[ronanm]

UK is getting the Olympics in 2012 - England will hardly get the WC 6 years later

[Fivex]

Why not?

[dom9]

UK is getting the Olympics in 2012 - England will hardly get the WC 6 years later

Brazil is getting both, no?

[kingfunk]

Gary Lineker has quit his column for The Mail On Sunday in protest over their 'expose' of Lord Triesman.

The paper reportedly paid £75,000 to Melissa Jacobs for a recording of Triesman, in which he speculated that the Russian and Spanish bid teams for the 2018 World Cup may collude to bribe referees in South Africa this summer.

Triesman was forced to resign from as chairman of both the FA and the England 2018 bid team, and Match Of The Day presenter Lineker is not impressed with his other (now former) employers.

In announcing his decision to quit, Lineker, who has written for the paper for six months, said: "The story itself, the circumstances surrounding it and the actions of the Mail on Sunday in publishing it have undermined the bid to bring the World Cup to England in 2018.

"I wholeheartedly support the bid, because I believe that hosting the tournament would be brilliant for the country, and I am an official ambassador for it. I have therefore taken the view that I cannot continue as a columnist for the Mail on Sunday."

Lineker's agent Jon Holmes had further criticism for the paper, believing it to be a honey-trap with little or no public interest.

"The story showed crass judgment," Holmes said.

"It had dubious journalistic merit, was clearly obtained by entrapment, and was timed to do the maximum damage to the World Cup bid, which Gary and all football fans in this country passionately support. We wanted to make our position clear and to do all we can now to help persuade Fifa that England is the best country to host a great World Cup in 2018."

The Guardian reports that The Mail has further comments recorded by Jacobs, but is yet to decide whether to run them this weekend.

[kingfunk]

While we are talking about Gary Lineker.

Phoarrr!

[-V-]

While we are talking about Gary Lineker.

Phoarrr!

A pretty good reason to divorce your wife of 20 yrs

[Kenneth]

A pretty good reason to divorce your wife of 20 yrs

[-V-]

Actually why the spoiler tag?

[kingfunk]

Lord Triesman

Actually why the spoiler tag?

So it's safe for work.

[Neil Young]

I'd have said England stood a fair chance before all this but surely Russia are going to get it now. It's a boom country for football, thanks to all the dodgy billionaires, and sport in general.

And if necessary they'll just bribe the FIFA voters.

[Baracus]

I still think its England's to lose. FIFA stand to make a bucket or two commercially if its held here. Hopefully by which time the crowning stadium in the country will be the Hicks designed New Anfield which IMO opinion outshines anything in this country to date.

[CJ]

i dont think its ever been englands to lose.