Thu 6 Apr 06
G14 Pulls a “Kissinger”
Arsenal vice-chairman David Dein has been meeting secretly with FIFA president Sepp Blatter to broker a peace with the G14:
The private talks are aimed at finding a breakthrough in the long-running battle between Europe’s most powerful clubs and Fifa, the world game’s governing body, over the international calendar and compensation for use of top players when they are on international duty.
That may help put out the fire on the FIFA front, but what will G14 do if Villareal wins the Champions League this year, and not one of the members of the He-Man UEFA-Haters Club®?
UPDATE
UEFA isn’t swayed. Said chief executive Lars-Christer Olsson,
“They are creating a smokescreen to hide their ambitions for an alternative competition.”
Paul Canniff
