Fa Wave the White Flag As Eriksson Shows His True Colours
Evening Standard - London › January 20, 2006
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AS I contemplate the Football Association's pathetic handling of Sven- Goran Eriksson's encounter with the " fake sheikh", Winston Churchill's description of a contemporary springs to mind: "He has all of the virtues I dislike, and none of the vices I admire." And so do the FA. Loyalty, forbearance, forgiveness, turning the other cheek, all of these supposedly good things they bring into disrepute by failing yet again to call the slippery Swede to account.
What are they so afraid of ? What if they had done what Wigan's Dave Whelan recommended and sacked him. Would it have been so awful?See the full content of this document
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Fa Wave the White Flag As Eriksson Shows His True Colours
Would we all have woken up to the news, and thought, that's the end of our World Cup dreams? I wouldn't and nor, I suspect, would most of you.
The FA are probably afraid of having to pay up his handsome contract, but even that's a false fear, reflecting football's habitual unfamiliarity with the laws of the land.If removed either now or in the summer, ...See the full content of this document
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