What is behind the Arsenal board's implacable hostility to ?
Peter Hill-Wood, the Arsenal chairman, has said he does not want that sort of person running his beloved Arsenal.
But is there more to this? I hear there could be.
was a great boon for any Australian associated with the Games.
Almost as soon as the Games finished anyone else who wanted to stage sporting events wanted an Australian as an adviser. If the Australian could show his Sydney badge then he was certain to be hired.
Many Australian consultants played a big role in the Athens Olympics. London is still five years from staging the Games but , defeating four other major world cities - Paris, Madrid, New York and Moscow - has meant that those who worked for the London bid are much sought after.
On Saturday, England will play the West Indies in the World Cup, a meaningless match where there is only pride at stake.
However the match does have some significance - because it mirrors and this country and in particular the role of Afro-Caribbean cricket in the English game.
Nearly 30 years ago, in 1979,
Vivian Richards hit a marvellous match-winning century. England lost but were not disgraced and there were so many West Indians at Lord's it must have felt like a Caribbean home match.
The Cricket World Cup, which was meant to be a celebration of the game, is proving to be a depressing example of how not to organise a major sporting event.
There are many in cricket, some involved in the administration of the game around the world, who are quite angry about the way things have been handled in the West Indies.
When the England and Wales Cricket Board meet at Lord's on Monday, I am told some members will take the opportunity to voice concerns about the tournament to chairman David Morgan, who flies out to Barbados the following day.
When I spoke to him at Lord's while Sussex played MCC in the first match of the English season, Morgan, who wants to become the next ICC chairman, admitted that the World Cup format probably needed to be looked at.
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