Publish & Be Damned!

Timing is everything, no one knows this better than the Mail on Sunday this week when they published recorded conversations between Chairman of the FA Lord Triesman and a female former colleague in which Triesman illuminated upon possible corruption in bidding for the World Cup. The Mail on Sunday has stirred up a hornet's nest of acrimony with lovers of the beautiful game as this potential bombshell may well scupper chances of England winning the hosting bid for 2018.

Now us Brits generally love a toff putting his foot in it, especially if he has to fall on his sword as a consequence, but when it comes to football we would rather it be done behind closed board room doors. Not just any football either, the holiest of holys the World Cup bid for 2018! Scarcely was the ink dry on the bid before the Mail on Sunday published it damning stitch-up. They had obviously timed it to coincide with the bid otherwise why plan it now! They had manipulated the entire event to parallel the pomp and ceremony of presenting the bids, one singularly determined act.

SiG

I wonder at the Mail on Sunday's remit in the act, there has always been a publish and be damned attitude to English newspapers and from the feedback I've seen from a large proportion of the football loving public that's exactly what the Mail on Sunday have got - damnation from the very hand that feeds it!