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Lord Triesman resigns from 2018 bid but is he to blame or the Mail on Sunday:-
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/8685009.stm
Lord Triesman is to stand down as chairman of the England 2018 World Cup bid, BBC Sport understands. However he is not leaving his role as chairman of the Football Association.
Triesman acted after the Mail on Sunday said he suggested Spain could end its bid if rival bidder Russia helped bribe referees at this summer's World Cup.
The 2018 team has already faxed apology letters to the Russian and Spanish FAs and the bid is undertaking a "major damage limitation exercise".
The Mail on Sunday claims to have obtained a secretly tape-recorded conversation of Triesman talking to a former aide.
The revelations come just two days after former England captain David Beckham helped the FA submit a 1,752-page bid book as they try to persuade Fifa to award England the 2018 World Cup.
Speaking about Triesman's decision to step down, new Sports Minister Hugh Robertson told the BBC: "It is absolutely the right decision to take.
"Our top priority as a new government is to win this bid for the country and I am delighted they have acted as quickly and decisively as they have done............
Just read some of the details of Lord Triesman's comments about the Spanish and Russian's bribing of the World Cup referees, he has now resigned from the 2018 world cup bid but does anyone else feel that the guilty party here is the Mail on Sunday for taping and publishing details of a private personal conversation knowing it woud damage Englands 2018 bid?
Unless Triesman made the stories up which is a rediculous idea then he must have been informed of this and if that's the case then no doubt all the other members of the bid were also informed and no doubt they have all spoken about it too but were just lucky enough not to have been targeted by the Mail.
Now what if these allegations are true? then surely Fifa must investigate fully otherwise we may have more games like the Chelsea - Barca semi final last year which now has to have question marks all over it does it not? Makes you wonder though don't it?
Who is to blame here? Should Triesman have resigned?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/8685009.stm
Lord Triesman is to stand down as chairman of the England 2018 World Cup bid, BBC Sport understands. However he is not leaving his role as chairman of the Football Association.
Triesman acted after the Mail on Sunday said he suggested Spain could end its bid if rival bidder Russia helped bribe referees at this summer's World Cup.
The 2018 team has already faxed apology letters to the Russian and Spanish FAs and the bid is undertaking a "major damage limitation exercise".
The Mail on Sunday claims to have obtained a secretly tape-recorded conversation of Triesman talking to a former aide.
The revelations come just two days after former England captain David Beckham helped the FA submit a 1,752-page bid book as they try to persuade Fifa to award England the 2018 World Cup.
Speaking about Triesman's decision to step down, new Sports Minister Hugh Robertson told the BBC: "It is absolutely the right decision to take.
"Our top priority as a new government is to win this bid for the country and I am delighted they have acted as quickly and decisively as they have done............
Just read some of the details of Lord Triesman's comments about the Spanish and Russian's bribing of the World Cup referees, he has now resigned from the 2018 world cup bid but does anyone else feel that the guilty party here is the Mail on Sunday for taping and publishing details of a private personal conversation knowing it woud damage Englands 2018 bid?
Unless Triesman made the stories up which is a rediculous idea then he must have been informed of this and if that's the case then no doubt all the other members of the bid were also informed and no doubt they have all spoken about it too but were just lucky enough not to have been targeted by the Mail.
Now what if these allegations are true? then surely Fifa must investigate fully otherwise we may have more games like the Chelsea - Barca semi final last year which now has to have question marks all over it does it not? Makes you wonder though don't it?
Who is to blame here? Should Triesman have resigned?