IT’S A SPYING SHAME
Lampard fury at Fair Play award for snooper Bielsa
BERNARDO SILVA has written to the FA expressing regret over his ill-judged tweet likening close friend and teammate Benjamin Mendy to a black cartoon character.
The Portugal international, below, walked into a firestorm after posting a picture on Twitter of Mendy as a child alongside the black caricature logo from Spanish confectionery product
Conguitos.
Conguitos translates as
“little people of the
Congo” and under the two images he had written “Guess who?”
– a ‘joke’ between friends he insisted was not meant to cause offence. The
FA have contacted the club to request an FRANK LAMPARD has slammed FIFA’s decision to hand Leeds manager Marcelo Bielsa their Fair Play Award.
FIFA gave the award to the Championship club and their manager at a ceremony in Milan this week.
Bielsa won it for ordering his team to let Aston Villa score an equaliser in April, after Mateusz Klich had put Leeds ahead while Villa’s Jonathan Kodjia was down injured.
But Lampard says it is wrong to hail Bielsa for his sportsmanship in the same season he admitted spying on all his rivals, after the club were caught red-handed outside Derby’s training ground when Lampard was in charge.
“I don’t think it’s right, to be straight,” said Lampard. “There was a lot of news about Spygate at the time, quite rightly so, and it got dealt with in the right way. “When you go and give an award for fair play in the same year, it’s strange. I don’t know who votes for it. Everyone knows what happened with Spygate – it is