Bianchi on Ice wrote:Had/have fergusons phone number?
Mark halsey, take a bow.
Youve taken the tin opener to a can of worms.
The shame of it is that such relations are well known of inside the game as the rags have a reputation for inviting favoured referees, pundits and reporters to incredibly expensive, ridiculously lavish functions but nobody's ever made a song and dance about it for fear of getting further on the wrong side of old traffords pet referees, pocket pundits and hand-fed reporters.
I was very surprised to hear talkshite giving an opinion on the matter today as they, apart from Gough who knows fuck all about anything (can't even string a coherent sentence together), surly knew that this sort of crap has been going on forever.
Fact is that Halsey will have only put it in his book because it's so commonplace that it wouldn't seem odd to him to mention it in the context of his life in the game. It's what he hasn't mentioned that we should be really interested in . . . like how certain referees have managed to pay off huge gambling debts or send children to private colleges that have prices that even the very rich would wince at and how they afford such amazing foreign holidays on a referees pay. . . hmmm
And no, the most of it won't come out because it wouldn't be in the interest of those now at the top of the game to let it see the light of day.
Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2013 4:28 pm