Football Association chief quits after being bugged.
David Triesman was forced to quit his role as chairman of the Football Association (FA) and England's World Cup bid team yesterday. Lord Triesman resigned after a tape recording was made public by the Mail on Sunday newspaper. On the tape Triesman accused rival World Cup bidders Spain and Russia of conspiring to bribe referees at this year's World Cup.
He voiced his accusations about the football industry to a woman who claims she had been having an affair with him. Melissa Jacobs (aged 37) secretly taped Lord Triesman (66) during an hour-long conversation in a Central London restaurant.
Miss Jacobs is believed to have sold her story to the Mail after approaching a number of newspapers. Her motives are unclear, although promoting England's chances of hosting the World Cup in 2018 clearly was not her intention. The damaging revelations came just hours after Triesman together with David Beckham had handed over England's bid documentation to FIFA, the sport's international governing body. Commentators are worried that the revelations may adversely affect the chances of England winning the bid, after having been seen as frontrunners just days ago.
This is not the first football related bugging story and will certainly not be the last. Only last month the England Team Manager Fabio Capello was bugged while discussing his plans for this summer's World Cup Finals. The sport now has such a high profile and is so potentially lucrative, that everybody within its upper echelons is a potential target for eavesdroppers. Triesman really should have talked to QCC rather than Miss Jacobs. Alongside the specifics of bug sweeping, surveillance detectors and other technical services, we are able to advise our clients on how to avoid risky scenarios and locations where they might be bugged.
A failure by top people to follow simple procedures, including the obvious one of not saying things in private that you would not say in public, recently cost Gordon Brown the political premiership. A similar failure has now cost David Triesman his job at the FA and may well have cost the nation the chance to host the World Cup for the foreseeable future.
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