Mail on Sunday forces Lord Triesman to resign

[worcestersauce]

Lord Triesman resigns from 2018 bid but is he to blame or the Mail on Sunday:-


http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/8685009.stm



Lord Triesman is to stand down as chairman of the England 2018 World Cup bid, BBC Sport understands. However he is not leaving his role as chairman of the Football Association.
Triesman acted after the Mail on Sunday said he suggested Spain could end its bid if rival bidder Russia helped bribe referees at this summer's World Cup.
The 2018 team has already faxed apology letters to the Russian and Spanish FAs and the bid is undertaking a "major damage limitation exercise".
The Mail on Sunday claims to have obtained a secretly tape-recorded conversation of Triesman talking to a former aide.
The revelations come just two days after former England captain David Beckham helped the FA submit a 1,752-page bid book as they try to persuade Fifa to award England the 2018 World Cup.
Speaking about Triesman's decision to step down, new Sports Minister Hugh Robertson told the BBC: "It is absolutely the right decision to take.
"Our top priority as a new government is to win this bid for the country and I am delighted they have acted as quickly and decisively as they have done............

Just read some of the details of Lord Triesman's comments about the Spanish and Russian's bribing of the World Cup referees, he has now resigned from the 2018 world cup bid but does anyone else feel that the guilty party here is the Mail on Sunday for taping and publishing details of a private personal conversation knowing it woud damage Englands 2018 bid?
Unless Triesman made the stories up which is a rediculous idea then he must have been informed of this and if that's the case then no doubt all the other members of the bid were also informed and no doubt they have all spoken about it too but were just lucky enough not to have been targeted by the Mail.
Now what if these allegations are true? then surely Fifa must investigate fully otherwise we may have more games like the Chelsea - Barca semi final last year which now has to have question marks all over it does it not? Makes you wonder though don't it?

Who is to blame here? Should Triesman have resigned?

 

[beats1]

Media here are a bunch of wankers, in other country's they might not print this as it would ruin the country's world cup bid

 

[spursman85]

He is a bit silly to make such claims but it was a private conversation with a trusted friend and the mail has screwed him over in order to sell a few papers. In the process they could have cost us the chance to host the WC cup, meaning we have lost millions of pounds and thousands of jobs.
That paper is a rag and a disgrace.

 

[SpunkyBackpack]

So in the past few weeks we've had snooker fucked over by NotW, football screwed by MoS, whats next? Cricket is on a bit of a high right now, how about The Sun have a shot at that?


Fucking waste of oxygen these 'journalists'

 

[tototoner]

So for the sake of few extra papers sold The Mail on Sunday is OK with destroying the 2018 World Cup bid and the billions it would bring into the UK economy plus the feel good factor for the country.

 

[3Dnata]

Makes me wonder if there is truth to what he was saying. Shameful behaviour by the Mail, what were they thinking?

 

[thinktank]

He is a bit silly to make such claims but it was a private conversation with a trusted friend and the mail has screwed him over in order to sell a few papers. In the process they could have cost us the chance to host the WC cup, meaning we have lost millions of pounds and thousands of jobs.
That paper is a rag and a disgrace.

Why? This guy is an extremely high figure in football with access to information that most do not have - information at the very top (not to mention his political connections). We may not want to believe that our beloved game is susceptable to corruption and has impenetrable integrity but I doubt that's the case and have taken his 'claims' seriously. The fact that he said this in private should make it even more pertinent and alarming in it's potential veracity.

If he'd have voiced this publicly for whatever reason then I'd understand more skepticism, but he expressed his suspicions in what he thought was total confidence, to someone he felt emotionally close to; he confided in her. Because of the context I'm inclined to believe him and it really doesn't surprise me at all.

Agreed, though, the mail is filth and this is a non-story and they've sacrificed our bid for a few sales. Scum.

 

[MattyP]

The Mail on Sunday should be fucking ashamed. None of the tabloids particularly liked Triesman's involvement in the 2018 bid, but to seriously damage the bid like this is disgusting.

Triesman may or may not be a knob, but this was not the way to get rid of him.

 

[claw_diddy]

Wasn't he on his way out anyway? He should've shut the fuck up and the mail shouldn't have printed it.

 

[Rocksuperstar]

Whiltst i'm glad the ancient relic has gone, as said by most, the Mail are doing what "journalists" think they're meant to do now. Instead of going out and reporting news of things going on, they go out and create news by doing their utmost to bring down someones career or personal life.

I'm half in the mind that there must be a law to stop lazy-neo-journo's doing this. Unless they can give a good reason why they thought taping a private conversation constituted news gathering, and not bear-bating or fishing for one quote that could cause any kind of upset or offence, this is nothing short of harassment.

Imagine the uproar if one of your mates put a recording device in another mates room, then, when he catches him making a throw-away suggestive remark about a girl on telly or one of his wifes mates, that guy then goes running to the fellas wife and uses that to try and cause friction in their relationship. What kind of a **** would he be? And yet we see these situations and it constitutes news.

F*ck "news".

 

[worcestersauce]

Wasn't he on his way out anyway? He should've shut the fuck up and the mail shouldn't have printed it.

But that goes for all the other members of the bid too then because they have all spoken about this in private, of course they have, we know they have, it would be unnatural not to, only they weren't the subject of a sting by the Mail.
I can't understand why anyone at the Mail would consider this in the public interest, maybe it's political but surely they wouldn't destroy our bid just to get at a political opponent would they?

Hopefully now the Spaniards won't be ale to get away with the bribary that they might have done before, they do have form so we know it's probably true.

 

[danielneeds]

Shame, Triesman is a Yid and he seemed to have whipped the 2018 bid into decent shape.

Apparently he fell out with Dave Richards at the PL last year, wouldn't be surprised if he has a few friends at the Mail on Sunday...

 

[llamafarmer]

I despise that rag of a paper. I felt dirty reading the article on their website.

 

[Blockbuster]

All papers should be ashamed of themselves. its disgusting to print this shit. it has seriously harmed our 2018 bid, I hope the paper goes out of business soon.

utter scum. up there with The Sun, Times, Star and all the other shit rags

 

[mattyspurs]

To be fair to the other papers, I was listening to Talksport on the way to work this morning, and in the back page round up on the Alan Brazil show, they had Darren Lewis on from the Mirror, as they do every Monday. He was saying, all of the papers were offered the story, and every one of them turned it down apart form the Mail, for fear of damaging the bid.

 

[MattyP]

To be fair to the other papers, I was listening to Talksport on the way to work this morning, and in the back page round up on the Alan Brazil show, they had Darren Lewis on from the Mirror, as they do every Monday. He was saying, all of the papers were offered the story, and every one of them turned it down apart form the Mail, for fear of damaging the bid.

I'm not surprised they were all offered the "story" - didn't immediately strike me as a typical Mail on Sunday type scoop.

That said, the Sun today went down the same route as the Mail instead of criticising what they had done. I know there is no honour amongst thieves and it would take some balls to criticise fellow journalists, but the overwhelming feeling of "Joe Public" is that the bird is a fucking **** for selling the story and the Mail are ****s for publishing it.

 

[llamafarmer]

To be fair to the other papers, I was listening to Talksport on the way to work this morning, and in the back page round up on the Alan Brazil show, they had Darren Lewis on from the Mirror, as they do every Monday. He was saying, all of the papers were offered the story, and every one of them turned it down apart form the Mail, for fear of damaging the bid.

So her pimp has been busy whoring her all over Fleet Street. Classy lady :lol:

 

[$hoguN]

Newspaper journalists are ****s by nature. When they go out of their way to hack phones, pay people to provoke someone into say something while being recorded or any underhand tactic they use they should be very harshly hit with fines (in the range of millions) and on a second offence closed down.

 

[$hoguN]

I'm not surprised they were all offered the "story" - didn't immediately strike me as a typical Mail on Sunday type scoop.

That said, the Sun today went down the same route as the Mail instead of criticising what they had done. I know there is no honour amongst thieves and it would take some balls to criticise fellow journalists, but the overwhelming feeling of "Joe Public" is that the bird is a fucking **** for selling the story and the Mail are ****s for publishing it.

Yet its not just stuff like this, do the papers really need to parade Terry's, Cole's or anyone eleses personal life across the newspaper in a World Cup year?

 

[Barmy_in_Palmy]

So Australia for 2018 then?