By Myles Palmer
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UEFA’s Euro 2004 “newsletter” is a colour magazine that they send me.
The June issue features the launch of the official poster, created in a competition by one Miguel Rocha.
Rocha is a shaven-headed Portuguese dude who does cartoons and children’s books.
The winning poster is pretty wild and abstract, quite daring, I think.
As you know, the tournament logo features a football with a heart-shaped ribbon round it.
You have seen on it TV.
THE POSTER is a drawing of single figure, a man with dark hair but no face, running, about to kick the ball.
The image conveys energy, noise, excitement.
The figure is wearing a ruby-coloured shirt and green shorts and is about to kick the ball with his left foot.
Maybe the winning goal in the final will be a left-foot shot.
STEVEN GERRARD has turned down £105,000 a week at Chelski, we read today.
I heard it was 140K, not 105K.
Whatever he turned down, good luck to him.
The Sun says Red Rom is furious, but that’s the sort of thing The Sun says about many people.
It seems the oligarch wants to sign all the best players.
I’ve been around football, and the music business, for a long time, and met a few men in a hurry, but nobody who is in as big a hurry as rocketing Roman Abramovich.
This distraction of such a mega-contract has not helped Gerrard.
It may explain his disappointing form in Euro 2004.
With Gerrard, Chelsea might have signed Rooney next year.
The Sun says Ruud to Real, Rooney to Man Utd.
Months ago, I reckoned that would happen , that Becks and Ruud would be friends re-united at Chelsea or Real.
Now I’m not sure.
Talking of Real Madrid, they now want Ashley Cole.
Dream on, Perez !
28th June 2004.