What's this about ?

[dorgie]

http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/news/drilldown/N...090927-1413.htm

 

Sorry if this is covered elsewhere on this site, but I couldn't find anyting on it. Anyone know what this is about ?

 

LIVERPOOL FC PRESS STATEMENT

Liverpool FC 27 September 2009

Liverpool FC has noted the article in today's News of the World newspaper concerning Mr George Cullen.

Mr Cullen is not an employee of the club, but we take the allegations made against him extremely seriously and regard the alleged behaviour as totally unacceptable for any contractor or supplier associated with the club.

 

Liverpool FC have therefore terminated all commercial contracts with Mr George Cullen's companies Telco and Stadiacard with immediate effect

[Rimbeux]

He's a business owner who got caught in a drug and vice sting, apparently the club deal with his companies, security or something

[dorgie]

Thanks Rimbeaux.

[Gomez]

Dodgy businessman with tenuous links to the club = NOTW exclusive

[Mike]

not tenuous at all

[GWistooshort]

NOTW article

[aka Dus]

Were they trying to curry favour with the fan base for 'exposing' a supplier to the club as a man of debatable mores and giving the club the opportunity to be rid of him? Or were they trying to devalue the club's brand value by creating a situation where the club might be exposed to public ridicule?

 

How strange to go after an individual who has no public profile in such a way.

[Billy Dane]

Very odd that someone is in such a rush to offer drugs/prostitutes/money to people they have "only just met". Wasn't it the same with the sting they carried out on Dallaglio, amongst many others?

[aka Dus]

There is a book out at the minute, I think by Roy Gleenslade or someone, detailing all the fake sheikh crap they've gotten up to in the past. Interesting reading by all accounts.

[Crazy Horse]

There is a book out at the minute, I think by Roy Gleenslade or someone, detailing all the fake sheikh crap they've gotten up to in the past. Interesting reading by all accounts.

 

I hope that was him sitting next to Gillett yesterday.

[betterman]

Were they trying to curry favour with the fan base for 'exposing' a supplier to the club as a man of debatable mores and giving the club the opportunity to be rid of him? Or were they trying to devalue the club's brand value by creating a situation where the club might be exposed to public ridicule?

 

How strange to go after an individual who has no public profile in such a way.

 

Neither.

 

They were trying to sell lots of papers, that is always the number one agenda of any newspaper. Link to Liverpool FC is what 'makes' the story from their point of view.