By Myles Palmer
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TONIGHT’S ONLINE publication of the full 24-page document reveals a few gems which will be all over the papers on Saturday and Sunday.
The tabloids will make much of an alleged text message from Vieira to Cole, urging him not to accept less than 80K a week.
This at a time when David Dein was trying to get the board to agree to pay Cole 60K a week.
PETER KENYON says Cole told him on January 27th that he was unhappy about cliques at Arsenal, unhappy that the French boys ran the team, and reckoned that the Chelsea boys who played with Cole for England had more cameraderie, which was one reason Chelsea were doing so well.
COLE is not quoted in the document.
That is what Kenyon said Cole told him and Mourinho.
The 24-page document is there on the Premier League website for all who want to read it.
It’s an eye-opener which will keep Colegate in the headlines for another month or two.
I can see why agent Jonathan Barnett says he will fight to clear his name.
The three-man Commission did not believe his testimony and they explain why they did not believe it.
WHERE WILL ASHLEY COLE be playing next season?
I don’t have a clue. You can read the report yourselves and you make a guess.
I refuse to predict. I refuse to guess.
I’m not a news-junkie who puts on Ceefax 8 times a day.
If something big happens, we all hear about it, right?
Most of what they call “news” is not news, it’s rumour, reaction, drivel and trivia.
June 3rd 2005.