Oh dear Lord Triesman

[gh7901]

Quite surprisingly it seems even the vast majority of the Mail readers are disgusted by this, judging by the comments on their site

[BReal]

Bitches ain't shit but hoes and tricks

'greed

[Seal]

This story has been floating a round the blogosphere for a little while and was bound to be picked up and printed sooner or later - the big issue was that DT had shown signs of standing up to the PL within the FA, and so the knives were well and truly out for him. If it hadn't been this it would have been something else.

It's ll part of the big political battle for the soul and control of football that's going on, and this is a big victory in it for the PL. A sad day indeed.

I'm sorry but I know you love to talk about the whole PL v FA think Dirk, but are you actually saying that this was a PL conspiracy in cohort with the Daily Mail??? No sure I buy that at all. I'm well aware he had his enemies, but to me this is just a spiteful honey trap by a disgrace of a newspaper, much like what happened to Laurence Dallagio a few years back.

[Dirk Gently]

This story has been floating a round the blogosphere for a little while and was bound to be picked up and printed sooner or later - the big issue was that DT had shown signs of standing up to the PL within the FA, and so the knives were well and truly out for him. If it hadn't been this it would have been something else.

It's ll part of the big political battle for the soul and control of football that's going on, and this is a big victory in it for the PL. A sad day indeed.

I'm sorry but I know you love to talk about the whole PL v FA think Dirk, but are you actually saying that this was a PL conspiracy in cohort with the Daily Mail??? No sure I buy that at all. I'm well aware he had his enemies, but to me this is just a spiteful honey trap by a disgrace of a newspaper, much like what happened to Laurence Dallagio a few years back.

Not, not as blatantly as that, but over the past year or so the 2018 bid team has been the scene of skirmishes between the two camps and it's been getting more open recently. It's more down to the fact that when the Mail did their squalid little story this weekend DT would have lookedaround for friends and supporters from within the FA & PL, at which point you could be sure everyone looked away and whistled.

This would have been survivable with support from within, but with the PL out to get him there would have been no such support.

[ankeny]

Typical of the right wing Tory press,note Lord Triesman is Labour and what a scumbag she is as well.The Mail is not fit to use has arse paper along with that other rag The Sun.

[Mr Optimist]

Max Clolifford getting his grubby money as well out of it.

As soon as something like this emerges, there he is lurking in the bushes like Andy Bernal, ready to help someone "put their side of the story across" in exchange for a big wad of cash.

[No Hoops]

What if it's true????


Fifa going for a full investigation. Perhaps they heard the same rumours.

[Compo's Hat]

Gary Lineker quits Mail on Sunday column over Lord Triesman sting.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/davi ... ail-sunday

Gary Lineker has quit his weekly column in the Mail on Sunday in protest at the newspaper's publication of Lord Triesman's secretly recorded conversation on Sunday.

The story led to Triesman's immediate resignation as the chairman of the FA and of its bid to host the 2018 World Cup, and has forced the bid team into a frantic operation to re-establish its credibility.

Lineker, the former England international and World Cup star turned BBC presenter, is an official ambassador of the bid and believes the Mail on Sunday's story had little merit but did potentially serious damage to the effort to bring the 2018 tournament to this country.

"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," Lineker said.

"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 has been writing the weekly column in the Mail on Sunday for six months following the death of Sir Bobby Robson, who wrote previously in that slot. Lineker's long-term agent, Jon Holmes, was severely critical of the paper, saying that he and Lineker had quickly formed the view that Lineker should sever his involvement with the paper.

"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 newspaper ran on Sunday the comments made by Triesman, 66, during a private dinner with a friend, Melissa Jacobs, 37, who, unknown to him, was recording it. She then sold her story to the Mail on Sunday, which is understood to have paid £75,000 for it, with the publicist Max Clifford representing Jacobs.

Triesman's remarks, particularly his casual claim that the Spanish and Russian football authorities are considering bribing referees at this summer's World Cup, led to his resignation. In his statement, he complained of "entrapment" by the Mail on Sunday.

The 2018 bid team, fresh from an overwhelmingly positive trip to deliver the bid document to Fifa last week, are now working flat out on a salvage operation. Letters of apology were faxed to Madrid, Moscow and the Fifa offices in Zurich as early as Saturday night, a new bid chairman, Geoff Thompson, was appointed, and now Fifa's ethics committee is investing the claims and the surrounding circumstances.

Public reaction, gauged by responses to phone-ins and online coverage of the story, including the Mail on Sunday's own website, has been dominated by fury at the newspaper for publishing the secret recording, rather than at Triesman for making the comments. Malcolm Clarke, the chairman of the Football Supporters Federation, said in a joint statement with Supporters Direct:

"The Mail on Sunday has grievously endangered the bid with the worst sort of journalism. All involved at the Mail should hang their heads in shame. Many football supporters will think long and hard before buying the Daily Mail or The Mail on Sunday."

After being told of Lineker's decision to cease working with the Mail on Sunday, the 2018 World Cup bid team said in a statement: "We would like to thank Gary for his support which is greatly appreciated. He has been a fantastic ambassador for the bid until now and will continue to be so until the end of the campaign.

"We have had many messages of support over the last few difficult days and are grateful for all of them. It is clear that the public is totally behind both the bid and the England team going to South Africa this summer."

Jacobs is understood to have further comments from Triesman on tape and the Mail on Sunday is considering whether to run them as a second instalment. The newspaper has not so far returned calls to discuss Lineker quitting his column.

Good on you big ears!

[Deadlock]

... was timed to do the maximum damage to the World Cup bid, which Gary and all football fans in this country passionately support.

Not true. I'm totally against the bid so long as Milton Keynes is one of the venues.

But well done Lineker any way.

[Smoking Kills Dancing Doe]

Don't worry folks Alan Sugar to the rescue.

The most worrying thing is he prob will end up getting the job....

[6ft Kerplunk]

A big Lol at Alan Sugar on 5Live yesterday saying the FA hadn't moved forward in 30 years. So apart from becoming a TV pantomime star, what exactly has Alan Sugar done since the Amstrad CPC664?

[frimmers3]

A big Lol at Alan Sugar on 5Live yesterday saying the FA hadn't moved forward in 30 years. So apart from becoming a TV pantomime star, what exactly has Alan Sugar done since the Amstrad CPC664?

made millions. hth.

[leon]

spent millions on Carlos Kickaball. hth.

[SpaceCruiser]

I suppose, frimmers, that you're as happy as a pig in shit about the way England's bid to host the world cup is being de-railed.

[frimmers3]

I suppose, frimmers, that you're as happy as a pig in shit about the way England's bid to host the world cup is being de-railed.

i am,if any visitors from the world beyond exeter are denied a chance meeting with you: the rest of us would be sullied by association.

[Royal With Cheese]

I suppose, frimmers, that you're as happy as a pig in shit about the way England's bid to host the world cup is being de-railed.

i am,if any visitors from the world beyond exeter are denied a chance meeting with you: the rest of us would be sullied by association.

Can you to just go and have bum sex. I find the idea of Spacey trying to shag your brains out mildly amusing.

[PEARCEY]

Good for Lineker. Whilst Triesman was pretty stupid in what he said it was a private conversation to a woman who was supposedly a friend/lover. What she did was appalling. What a dispicable way to earn a living.

[Ian Royal]

Glad to see this is backfiring spectacularly for the Mail. I hope (without any expectation) that they get hurt in the only way they understand. In a significant loss of sales.

I'd say I'd boycott them, except I already wouldn't be caught dead buying a copy anyway.