Perhaps this is the outcome of the FIFA internal checks?

1. English people/businesses lose out if we do get the World Cup.
2. Lord Wotsit resigns.
3. The alarmingly plain woman doesn’t get enough dough (£75,000) to warrant being public enemy number one.
4. His wife learns about her husband’s actions.
5. And his daughter.
6. 99.9% of blogs on the Mail website rip into the paper for printing it and swear they won’t buy it again!

I’ll say it again, on Sunday this was almost a unique situation……until I heard the news yesterday.
Yes, people, there’s one person who won’t be losing in all this……I give you MAX CLIFFORD.
Brilliant!

Triesman apart from being a spud, (not to mention an old boy of the school I attended!), is not an absolute mug and what he was saying, pillow talk or not, strikes me as being far from idle chit chat. It seems a trifle unfair that the tart that shopped him, the MoS, and worse, the actual implications get swept under the carpet whilst he has to fall on his sword.

Tony asked a few weeks ago : if there was corruption in football who would bring it out? It looks like it has to be the Mail on Sunday.

But for the rest no one seems to care about the heart f the matter and the questions :

Are refs being bribed in order to achieve such things?
Do country’s work together when it comes to bribing refs?
Why does an high placed person talks about this?
Does he know it happens? What? Where? Who? When?

Who is doing it with who in the bedroom is not that important for me.

And the way the rest of the media jumps on this to get the lid back on the hush tells me that they are not interesting in those questions.
And then I ask myself: why? Selfinterest?

A significant number of people have questioned Triesman’s understanding of football let alone being at the helm of a world cup bid. Recall his brown nosing of Mr Corruption, leader of the opposition in Trinidad & Tabago.

That a politician cannot control his bragging and play at being a politician is of no real surprise, as is the revelation that he supports the Spuds….

but i am rather interested in their motives for printing this story.

the recording was made 2 weeks ago, so why wait until the bid was submitted before they published?

whatever anyones feelings on the fa, fifa etc, we all have to agree that england getting the world cup in 2018 would be a massive financial boost, and would only be good for england. why then is the mail intent on destroying the chances of this happening?

in the article, they wax lyrically about triesmans communist past and his friendship with tony blair. i think they believe that their need to crap on a commie is stronger than the nations need for the world cup.

i hate injunctions, super injunctions etc., but i really believe that it would have been better for gallagher (the mail reporter) to have said nothing at all. after all it was a private conversation between a woman and a bloke who was trying to impress her.

who of us have not been in a similar position and found that our tale is a bit tall.

i personally dont care who is shagging who, it’s your work performance that counts. triesman was involved in a long battle with the epl about debt and fit and proper issues. it’s very handy for the epl that he has gone because these discussions on these issues will have to be started again and so we have another few years of no change.

and one last point, the mata hari figure in this story professes to be an arsenal fan…. i hang my head in shame, she probably reads legrove.

What are the odds on the Spammer’s being ‘gifted’ the IOC’s center for track & field excellence after the change in government? Gilbert and George thought they were the East End’s only eccentric cliched comedy duo. (super boring ‘art’IMO.)
I bet they never saw Sullivan and Gold coming.

Hmmmm….I think I might have to head on down to the bookies myself. Although, when I saw another friend this weekend, who’s been setting odds for one of the big bookmakers for over a decade now , he did remind me, that, for some bizarre reason…he never bets!