FA Try to Suppress Bugged England Conversation

March 9th, 2010 | by: Rob | View Comments

After yesterday’s nice news, its a return to the norm today, as the FA have discovered that a bugged conversation between Fabio Capello and his players before England’s win against Egypt last week was offered to the press. The FA have warned the press that it would illegal for them to publish the material as it was gained via illicit means.

Of course this is the era of the internet, so I’d be pretty suprised if it doesn’t come up on the www before to long, if newspapers can’t publish what was said. I can’t imagine it’s that interesting mind.

The FA is convinced that it might give away some tactical secrets (ie “We’ll play 4-4-2 for the first half, then go back to the old formation on 45 minutes”) but knowing the fascination this country has with scandal, its probably more likely they were hoping someone would say something re JT/Bridge or uncover a whole new scandal.

Obviously Fabio doesn’t need this distraction, and hopefully it’ll just go away. I can’t see that, mind, but fingers crossed it does just vanish. Hearing too much about what goes on in the England camp isn’t usually a good thing – as Glenn Hoddle’s World Cup Diary proves. Having said that if it does contain something “newsworthy” I can’t imagine that it’ll stay quiet too long.

I really can’t wait for the World Cup to start so all this kind of nonsense goes away and we can concentrate on you know, the football.