Karren Bradyâs football diary Saturday, November 19 THE Rao brothers, bosses at the Vesty chicken empire which somehow encompasses Blackburn Rovers, catch their chauffeured car early from Ewood Park. They have taken a first half of abuse from fans who want manager Steve Kean out. Chicken, indeed. I learned early on at St Andrew's to treat trash talk as just that. My 80-year-old grandma was at a derby game with Aston Villa when the away fans started to sing 'Karren Brady is a whore'. She asked: "What are they singing, Karren?" I replied: "Karren Brady is 24." And she smiled at her darling granddaughter. Sunday, November 20 ARTIFICIAL pitches have a bad name but refuse to go away. I'm currently thinking about this because they could have a huge role to play, particularly at multi-purpose venues such as Wembley and the Olympic Stadium. Generations ago, when they were introduced as the future of football, balls ping-ponged across the surface and skidding players took burns on their behinds as long as ski-trails. Football decided it would remain stick-in-the-mud, though, in fairness, today's pitches allow the finest football. The comeback artificial versions do, too, I understand, and several Football League clubs are considering applications for their use. The bounce is pretty well true to the turf kind and players' backsides should remain as unblemished as a baby's. Monday, November 21 AT Tottenham, Barry Bannan comes on as a sub for Aston Villa for the first time since his suspension for alleged drinking and driving offences. I wonder if he expects Villa to make travelling arrangements for him if he's banned. I hope they don't. My rule for players in such trouble â a few over the past 17 years â is rock solid. He makes his own arrangements and if he has to walk to training (unlikely) then that's his problem. I had one who asked me to fix up a driver and silently I passed him the card of a taxi company. I'd suggest Villa order Bannan to watch the recent Paul Gascoigne interview in which he explains why he betrayed his promise to Manchester United and joined Tottenham, who gave his mum and dad a house. And, as word was passed among the Gascoigne family, a sun-bed for his sister. Football kept giving, Gazza kept taking. And taking. Tuesday, November 22 CURRENTLY lording it over the Premier League, Manchester City discover further evidence that being English is not the automatic entry to the Champions League final stages it was. United's passage is also bumpy and Sir Alex Ferguson acknowledges this when he ups and departs a press conference merely because he is asked why the two teams are struggling in Europe. I'd rather face an angry croc than a manager in that mood. City manager Roberto Mancini is more chatty after seeing Naples and dying 1-2. I am beginning to like his style. Wednesday, November 23 WEST HAM didn't win much (anything) last season until the PFA came along and rated us highest of all the 92 senior clubs for players doing anti-racism and disabilities work. I am proud of this â immensely. Proud of all of the other people at the club, who helped the players make this so. When you remember that East London was once a hotbed of racism, and a rain of bananas used to greet Bermudan Clyde Best when he first played at Upton Park in the 60s, you understand exactly why the club is so committed and will remain so committed. Thursday, November 24 TRUE supporters of Pompey will shortly have qualifications in international financing â or, possibly, its failings. Rather like Tintin, one crisis over, a pause for breath and they're bang into another. It'll take more than one boy and his dog to get to the bottom of the latest drama. This one involves co-owner Vladimir Antonov, for whom there is an international arrest warrant over fraud allegations. The other co-owners plainly had no idea of the irony implicit in their statement: "Very much business as usual." I doubt there are any chimes of laughter in Portsmouth. They might just smile though at one newspaper (not The Sun) which reported Antonov 'could not be reached for comment'. They should try ringing Timbuktu 1234. Friday, November 25 I get together with a few chairmen who don't have a vote at the Football League table this season, but might well be in it next season, to discuss UEFA's proposed new financial fair play penalties over a few drinks at one of the chairmen's swanky London clubs. No ambitious club likes these rules and none of us think a promoted club will be able to make a real contribution to the Premier League for fear of being penalised if you get relegated back to the Football League. As one chairman put it: 'It's just an excuse for the weak chairmen in this league to say no to the players, because they don't have the balls to'. Could not have put it better myself. iReader http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepag...tml?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed
Brady is simply ridiculous. She has no credibility by choosing to work for Gold and Sullivan, probably she is even too stupid to realise this.
