by Tom Bower
‘make his dreams come true’: The Times, 13 July 1997.
102 million shares: Independent, 11 November 1995.
‘to cover the amounts owed’: Daily Express, 25 August 1993.
CHAPTER 5: THE PASSING PURIST
retained a 15 per cent stake: David Conn, The Football Business, (Mainstream 1997), pp.34–5, 165–167.
flotation at £102 million: ibid, p.64.
worth £70 million: ibid, p.96.
‘excessive drinking and poor leadership’: HMSO, The Hillsborough Stadium Disaster, Inquiry by Lord Justice Taylor, Final Report (Cm 962, January 1990), paragraph 26.
‘its supporter customers’: ibid, paragraph 53.
listen to the fans’ representatives: Independent on Sunday, 22 January 1995.
eightieth birthday party: Mail on Sunday, 1 February 1995.
‘sitting next to royalty’: Daily Telegraph, 7 July 2000.
properly regulate itself: Sunday Telegraph, 18 January 1998.
‘fit and proper person test’: Sir John Smith’s report, ‘Football, Its Values, Finances and Reputation’, 13 January 1998, p.14.
nomination of an independent regulator: ibid, p.16.
‘into the wastepaper basket’: Independent, 10 December 2001.
‘What a load of cobblers . . . A joke’: Harry Redknapp, ’Arry: An Autobiography, (HarperCollinsWillow, 1999), p.135.
‘his vacuous posturing’: Evening Standard, 6 July 1998.
‘endless wrecking tactics’: Adam Brown, letter to David Mellor, 22 July 1998.
CHAPTER 6: EL TEL
‘fulfil Pompey’s potential’: Portsmouth News, 19 November 1996.
‘the transaction as possible’: Independent, 26 November 1998.
establish Oakliffe Holdings: Tom Bower, The Paymaster, (Simon & Schuster UK Ltd, 2001) p.104.
closed for safety reasons: Portsmouth News, 3 December 1997.
the near-insolvent club: ibid., 5 December 1997.
‘transactions of obvious impropriety’: ‘Affadavit of Graham Richard Horne, deputy inspector of companies of the DTI, 1995, in the matter of Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and Terence Frederick Venables’ (DTI Report), p.75.
guilty to the nineteen offences: ibid., p.89.
the endorsement of Alex Ferguson: News of the World, 15 February 1998 and 22 February 1998.
‘only number one’: Sun, 13 December 1997.
worth £100 million: Financial Times, 21 November 1998.
deterred any City support: Sunday Express, 15 March 1998.
‘You’re paying too much’: The Times, 1 May 1998.
‘I can work with him’: Mirror, 27 February 1998.
‘He is the authority on football’: Financial Times, 27 November 1998.
received from the club’s owner: Evening Standard, 23 November 1998.
receiving only £600,000: ibid.
at a client’s expense: Evening Standard, 5 August 1999.
had been inaccurate: Mail on Sunday, 2 July 2000.
had been ‘a mistake’: Daily Express, 29 January 1999.
‘a sound financial position’: Evening Standard, 21 January 1999.
‘I was a sucker’: Daily Mail, 16 April 1999.
by a High Court judge: Guardian, 13 October 1999.
CHAPTER 7: FIASCOS AND DISILLUSIONMENT
‘scheming, self-serving chairman’: Sunday Times, 20 December 1998.
‘nations of the world’: Independent on Sunday, 20 December 1998.
would not be repeated: Independent on Sunday, 1 September 1996.
valued at £30 million: House of Commons, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, Sixth Report, Wembley National Stadium 2001–02 HC 843, Vol II, Memorandum Ev70–71.
‘a completely transparent process’: ibid., Vol II, Memorandum Ev73.
endorsement of Chris Smith: House of Commons, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, Fourth Report, Wembley National Stadium, 1 March 2000.
not dependent on Wembley’s reconstruction: House of Commons, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, Fourth Report, Staging International Sporting Events 1998–9, 124–11, Q108. And see, House of Commons, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, Fourth Report, Wembley National Stadium, 1 March 2000, p.x.
‘detriment of athletics’: House of Commons, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, Fourth Report, Wembley National Stadium, 1 March 2000, p.xi.
‘like a butterfly’: House of Commons, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, Fourth Report, Wembley National Stadium, 1 March 2000, p.xxviii. And see, House of Commons, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, Third Report, Staging International Sporting Events, vol I, 28 March 2001, p.xxiii.
CHAPTER 8: THE FA
‘from top to bottom’: Daily Telegraph, 23 June 1999.
he should be ‘removed’: Daily Telegraph, 25 May 1999.
‘relationship with Adam Crozier’: Richard Faulkner, letter to Kate Hoey, 5 April 2000.
decision to the DCMS: Adam Crozier, letter to Malcolm Clarke, 12 June 2000.
‘over my dead body’: Adam Brown, letter to James Purnell, 27 June 2000.
had been ‘wasted’: Adam Brown, letter to James Purnell, 29 June 2000.
from Newcastle United: Hoey, 31 July 2000; Adam Brown, letters to Kate Hoey, 31 July 2000 and 11 October 2000.
‘thousands of football fans’: Richard Faulkner, letter to Geoff Thompson, 12 July 2000.
‘biased establishment lapdog’: Richard Faulkner, letter to Tony Blair, 10 July 2000.
‘with deep regret’: John Smith, letter to Chris Smith, 3 October 2000.
bow to Scudamore’s veto: Niall Mackenzie, letter to Chris Smith, 20 February 2001.
‘and the entire proposal’: Kate Hoey, letter to Geoff Thompson, 26 March 2001.
under Bates’s chairmanship: House of Commons, Culture, Media and Sports Committee, Sixth Report, Wembley National Stadium 2001–02 HC 843, Memorandum Ev16.
the use of public money: ibid., Memorandum Ev16.
‘standards of transparency’: ibid., Memorandum Ev20.
with the contractors: ibid., Memorandum Ev20.
about ‘irregularities’: ibid., Vol II Memorandum Ev44.
The English bid was resoundingly defeated: Sunday Telegraph, 2 July 2000.
consequences of the letter: House of Commons, Culture, Media and Sports Committee, Sixth Report, Wembley National Stadium 2001–02 HC 843Vol II Ev47.
to above £400 million: ibid., Vol II Ev48 & Ev66.
‘value for money’: ibid., Vol I p.21, Vol II Ev73.
his ‘excellent’ position: Guardian, 16 October 2001.
publication on 6 May: Mail on Sunday, 6 May 2001.
‘make room for new people’: Mail on Sunday, 17 June 2001.
CHAPTER 9: THE MANAGER
‘make the bucks while you can’: Harry Redknapp, ’Arry: An Autobiography, (HarperCollinsWillow, 1999), p.186.
‘it doesn’t last forever’: ibid.
with Ron Atkinson, an idol: Sun, 28 April 1995.
‘the Lampards and all them’: The Times, 31 January 1998.
‘I simply don’t trust him’: www.soccerage.com
‘I have a wicked temper’: Guardian, 7 March 1987.
‘the “best” manager’: Sunday Times, 16 April 1995.
‘with my top players’: Redknapp, ’Arry, p.159.
talented players on the field: Sunday Telegraph, 10 January 1999.
‘does not happen’: News of the World, 17 October 1999, quoted from book by Eyal Berkovic, an Israeli journalist.
‘“always on the booze”’: Guardian, 7 November 1998.
to become ‘legless’: Daily Mail, 21 December 2001; News of the World, 24 June 2001.
‘it didn’t work’: The Times, 18 January 1999.
‘I stopped that years ago’: www.soccerage.com
‘I think the world of John Hartson’: Sunday Mirror, 11 October 1998.
‘this management game’: Redknapp, ’Arry, p.65.
‘it is ludicrous’: New
s of the World, 2 February 1997.
‘They gut me’: Guardian, 6 May 1995.
in Britain at the time: Evening Standard, 15 August 1996.
‘a large part of my life’: Redknapp, ’Arry, p.136.
‘I know what he can do’: Daily Mail, 1 January 1997.
‘the cheap end of the market’: Daily Mail, 13 September 1997.
‘players with no MOTs’: Redknapp, ’Arry, p.116.
‘next goal is coming from’: Daily Mail, 23 April 1997.
had been transferred: Sunday Times, 28 December 1997.
was his mantra: Sunday Mirror, 11 October 1998.
‘obvious in this game’: The Times, 31 January 1998.
CHAPTER 10: THE AGENT
tour of South Africa: Tony Yorke, Sunday People, 26 June 1994.
£138,000 was missing: News of the World, April 1998.
Kollin had appropriated the money: Erich Leimlehner file, S105227/97.
transfer to West Ham: News of the World, 1 February 1998.
shared with Morabito: The FA and Premier League’s Commission of Inquiry (FAPL) Report, Introduction p.16.
‘it will be the last’: Mirror, 28 July 2001.
which Ferguson desired: Dennis Roach, letter to Bobby Robson, 15 November 2001.
sold to Charlton: Daily Record, 5 October 2000.
cost £5 to manufacture: News of the World, 15 March 1998 and 22 March 1998.
‘happy to defend myself’: Daily Telegraph, 28 July 2001.
double the market price: Financial Times, 24 January 1997.
‘biggest money spinner’: Sunday Times, 27 July 1997.
registered by FIFA: Dennis Roach, letter to FA, 15 November 2001.
£100 million one year later: Football Business International, September 2001.
‘healthier than it has ever been’: Observer, 2 December 2001.
‘what happens to clubs’: David Conn, The Football Business, (Mainstream 1997), p.175.
CHAPTER 11: TURMOIL AND TRASH
‘stay on their feet’: Daily Star, 20 June 1998.
‘never dreamt it would happen’: Guardian, 10 May 2001.
Veron’s sale to Manchester United: Mail on Sunday, 17 June 2001.
potential conflict of interest: Independent on Sunday, 28 March 1999.
‘so long as it’s conducted professionally’: Observer, 19 May 2002.
cost Stretford’s creditors £128,000: Sunday Express, 29 October 2000.
‘I don’t know how or who with’: FHM, January 1995.
‘all parties are satisfied’: Independent on Sunday, 3 February 2002.
‘myself while I can’: Mirror, 6 December 1980.
about two transfers: Mirror, 19 December 1994; News of the World, 2 April 1995.
loaned by Reid to Cologne: Daily Mail, 17 September 2001.
‘what agents are involved’: Independent, 5 May 2000.
diligence was flawed: Times, 27 April 2001.
had been dishonest: All England Law Reports 2001, 2A11 ER (Comm) p.828.
‘stuck in a time warp’: Daily Express, 28 December 2000.
‘I don’t give a damn’: Daily Telegraph, 23 September 2000.
recouped £46 million: Daily Telegraph, 25 January 2002.
transfer to Middlesbrough himself: Michael Crick, The Boss, (Simon & Schuster UK Ltd., 2002), p.504.
authenticity and a frame: Daily Telegraph, 15 November 2001.
CHAPTER 12: THE ‘DREAM-MAKER’
by FIFA as an agent: Jewish Association of Business Ethics, 7 May 2002.
agreed to fly to Rotterdam: Daily Telegraph, 31 August 2001.
‘probably be better off’: Guardian, 20 August 1991.
£6 million from Real Madrid: Mirror, 29 September 1999.
from Juventus of Italy: Evening Standard, 8 April 2002.
‘orderly and dignified manner’: ibid.
voicing similar doubts: Mirror, 9 August 1996.
keep £25,000 for himself: The FA and Premier League’s Commission of Inquiry Report, E p.12.
CHAPTER 13: ANATOMY OF DREAMS
unreliable sworn testimony: The Times, 10 July 2002.
‘rejected by the board’: Evening Standard, 16 July 2002.
‘into thin air?’: Evening Standard, 17 July 2002.
‘the grotesque game’: Guardian, 14 September 2002.
Index
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Abbey National 377
Abramovich, Roman 370–2, 379, 388
Abu Dhabi Football Association 27
Acimovic, Milenko 283
AC Milan 31, 233, 275
Adams, Tony 338
Admiral 167
Agamemnon 122
agents, see football agents
Aigner, Gerhard 182–3
Akgunduz, Fazul 293
Al Fayed, Mohamed 388
Alam, Faria 373–5
Alexander, John 273, 276
Allardyce, Craig 308
Allardyce, Sam 308, 384–6
Allen, Clive 50
Allen, Paul 40–1
Aloisi, John 166
Alpay, Ozalan 293
Amsalem, David 173–4
Anderson, Jerome 261, 314, 316–20, 330, 335, 336–41
Anderton, Darren 63
Anelka, Claude 332–3
Anelka, Nicolas 332–3
Angel, Juan Pablo 227, 291–2
Angel, Leon 353
Anglo European Market Research and Consulting Company 57–8
Ansell, Mark 293, 305
Arca, Julio 298
Ardiles, Ossie 39, 47, 88–9, 170
Arribas, Gustavo 293
Arsenal FC 6, 10, 16, 80–8, 315–42 passim, 369, 371, 380, 382, 386
and Bean’s scrutiny 24
and Graham’s departure package 81–2
ITV’s stake in 188
winners of Double 341
see also Bergkamp, Dennis; Dein, David; Wenger, Arsène
Ashby, Eddie 36–8, 39, 58, 59, 64, 99
Ashcroft and 38, 61
bankruptcy of, revealed to Sugar 61
faces misconduct charges with
Venables 169–70
inconsistent testimony of,
concerning secret payment 99
jailing of, for bankruptcy-laws breach 168
Landhurst deal and 60
at Portsmouth 164–5, 167, 168–9
Sugar bars, from board meetings 64
on Venables’s financial affairs 41–2
Ashcroft, Michael 38, 61
Ashton, Joe 15
Aston Villa 12–14, 290–1, 303–4, 387
Bosnich and 29–30
Ellis’s stake in 14
fined for irregular dealings 30
Gregory’s resignation from 304–5
NTL’s stake in 188
see also Ellis, Doug; Gregory, John
Atkinson, Ron 53, 262
Hoey’s allegations against 32
Aziz, Prince Mohamed bin Abdul 45–6
Babayaro, Celestine 320
Baines, Peter 273
Bakayoko, Ibrahim 267
Bakke, Eirik 235
Balaban, Bosko 303–4
Ball, Ted 60
Banik Ostrava 256
Banks, Tony 95, 136–7, 139–40, 141, 150, 183–4
appointed sports minister 148
brokers peace 159
FA criticized by 221–2
on hatred within football 221
Hoey criticized by 221
Pendry despises 149–50
resignation of 194
stadium safety and 152
World Cup bid and 220–5
Barber, Paul 252
Barclay, Patrick 212
/> ‘Barnes file’ 39, 58, 64, 72–3, 93
Barnes, Peter 39
Barnett, Jonathan 244, 329, 370–1, 382–3
Barradas, Tony 177
Barrow, Steve 285
Barwell, John 47
Barwick, Brian 351, 378, 386–7, 390–2
Bashir, Martin 76
Basilevitch, Michel 45
Batehill 108, 109
Bates, Catherine 119
Bates, Fiona 119
Bates, Ken 10–13, 15, 49, 102–35 passim, 139–40, 367–8, 370–2
affair of, with model 134
and agents 22
banking venture by 116–20
‘bully’ accusation against 227
ceases to be development company
chairman 226–7
Chelsea stake increased by 310–11
and Crozier 360, 361
early life of 107–8
Ellis and 14
Fowler and 109–10
Hoey’s antagonism towards 194–5, 226–7
memoirs of 112–13
Norman and 108, 109, 110
ridicules Bean 22
and televised matches 106, 107
Virgin Islands and 109–17
Wembley’s new stadium and 184–5, 189–90, 192–9, 218–19, 225–7
Bates, Richard 119
Bates, Robert 112, 119
Bates, Susan 119
Bates, Theresa 108, 134
Bayern Munich 48
BBC Television 25, 104, 105–6
Bean, Graham 19–24 passim, 156–7, 251–5, 274–5
chairmen’s disparagement of 21–2, 251
job of, advertised 285
Roach and 254–5, 264–7 passim, 277, 278–9
scams cleared up by 251–3
Silkman and 282–3
see also Football Association; independent regulator
Beckenbauer, Franz 221
Beckham, David 358, 374
Bell, Lord 16
Belton, Tom 252
Benfica FC 290
Berezovsky, Boris 389
Bergkamp, Dennis 324, 333–6
Berkovic, Eyal 244
Berry, Tony 43, 56, 61, 62, 66, 67, 72
Best, George 25, 117
Betancour, Pablo 301–3
Big Five Premier League sides 10
Dyke’s promise to 103–4
Bilic, Slaven 257–8
Birch, Trevor 370–1
Birmingham City 312–13
Birt, John 137
Blair, Tony 136, 137, 143–8 passim, 192
Cunningham and 210
FIFA visit and 220
guilt of, over Pendry’s
disappointment 149
independent regulator and 205, 207–8