Agent still fighting for McCann cash
A number of well-known football figures, including bolton chairman Phil Gartside, agent Jerome Anderson and former Liverpool midfielder Sammy Lee, are facing criminal charges — all denied.
They have been brought in a private prosecution by agent Tony Mcgill, who claims to have been cut out of his share of a £1million deal in 2007 that took Gavin MCCANN from Aston Villa to bolton because agency Sem were brought in at the last minute.
The determined Mcgill has spent more than the £300,000 allegedly owed to him from the Mccann move taking legal action following his upset at the FA ignoring his evidence after he says he lost an earlier civil action on a technicality which the judge called ‘an unfortunate result’.
The MCGILL indictments are against bolton, Mccann, Gartside, Lee, Anderson plus agents Jeff Weston, Dave Sheron and Stephen Horner as well as agency Sem and bolton officials Simon marland and Frank Mcparland.
The multiple charges faced by them in varying number, which all carry prison sentences, are conspiracy to defraud, cheating the public revenue, perverting the course of justice and false accounting.
Those charged must file a defence by July 7. All the defendants rigorously deny the claims, as they did before the civil case. After the judgement in their favour they were awarded 80 per cent of costs, which have been frozen pending an appeal.
FIFA’S arch-crooks Chuck Blazer and Jack Warner were two of the five members of the FIFA ExCo understood to have voted for England in their doomed bid to host the 2006 World Cup. But Blazer, who has pleaded guilty to accepting bribes for his 1998 and 2010 World Cup votes, has not mentioned any personal gains from the election for the 2006 tournament. Nor has Warner. England exited in the first round of that election with the other support coming from Scotland’s David Will, Worawi Makudi of Thailand and New Zealand’s Charles Dempsey. Dempsey fled home before the second round won by Germany and has never explained why he did not cast his vote for South Africa as expected. Maybe in the wake of the revelations about the South Africa bribes to Warner and Blazer in 2010, Dempsey did not want to be involved in anything underhand and preferred to abstain. CHELSEA manager Jose mourinho (right) practically admitted yesterday that it was BT Sport’s huge £600,000-a-year ambassador payment that brought them TV access inside his house. On the night Chelsea won the title against Crystal Palace, he agreed to be interviewed by BT’s Jake Humphrey at home. mourinho said: ‘We did something unique to share with the audience because of our commitment. Something we normally keep for family and friends.’
GARY LINEKER, who has been one of the most outspoken football voices on the FIFA scandal, explained yesterday that his distaste for world football’s ruling body dates back to that murky 2010 election night when Lineker joined David Beckham, Prince William and David Cameron in canvassing for last-minute England votes at the Baur Au Lac Hotel in Zurich where the FIFA arrests took place a fortnight ago. Lineker said: ‘I don’t like crawling up people’s backsides and we seemed to be the only ones doing it — as if others knew the vote was decided. I needed a shower after talking to the ExCo members.’