Becks to rescue
Daily Star (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
DAVID BECKHAM has been summoned to save England's 2018 World Cup bid.
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England's 2018 World Cup bid team reshuffled by Lord Triesman
The First Post (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Under-fire Lord (David) Triesman, the chairman of the Football Association and the man tasked with leading the bid to bring the 2018 World Cup to this country,…
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Send out the 'clown' Sir Dave Richards
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
... time of fevered speculation over the direction of England's 2018 campaign, yesterday's reports of David Gill's resignation from the bid were greatly exaggerated. But then so too were the Manchester United chief executive's own comments yesterday. In a desperately unfortunate quirk of timing, Gill was on an England 2018 trip to Kuala Lumpur and extolling the new‑look bid campaign after...
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Is England's World Cup bid in the bag? I really hope not | Catherine Bennett
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
... excitement that now surrounds the England 2018 campaign, following the "bid chairman" David Triesman's recent distribution of Mulberry handbags, each valued at £230, as part of the traditional schmoozing rituals. Each of the Fifa Wags received one as a present. The choice of this swank manufacturer, alone, is fascinating. Fifa regulations state that presents are banned,...
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Faltering England slim down 2018 bid team
Fijilive (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
... by Jack Warner, one of FIFA's executive committee members, and Football Association chairman Lord David Triesman, also England's 2018 chairman, has come under pressure over his inability to devote more than two days a week to his role.Triesman will now head up a streamlined board featuring Premier League chairman Sir Dave Richards, Football League chairman Lord Brian Mawhinney,...
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Faltering England slim down 2018 bid team
Soccer News - Daily Soccer News (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
The bid has been severely criticised by Jack Warner, one of FIFA’s executive committee members, and Football Association chairman Lord David Triesman, also England’s 2018 chairman, has come under pressure over his inability to devote more than two days a week to his role.
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Handbag gifts come back to haunt England 2018 World Cup bid
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
... defending the decision to dispatch 24 handbags. In a furious letter to the bid chairman, David Triesman, Warner, one of Sepp Blatter's right-hand men, says: "Had [my wife] or I known then that the acceptance of what we all felt was a kind gesture would have resulted in the tainting of her character and mine together with the untold embarrassment to which we are still being subjected,...
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Inside Lines: Russian giant threatens to KO England's big bid hope
The Independent (Free subscription) | 18/10/2009
A second Anglo-Russian David v Goliath battle beckons after Haye and Valuev have settled their sizeable differences next month. Enter the ring Lord David Triesman, who will need to topple another giant (albeit one of politics not pugilism), one Vladimir Putin, if England's beleaguered 2018 World Cup bid is to be successful. The former Russian president, now prime minister, is...