https://www.scmp.com/rss/323233/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com In the job I do I expect scrutiny and occasional criticism, it goes with the territory. I understand that in trying to improve and develop football in Hong Kong, I will ruffle a few feathers along the way. However when that criticism is unjust, personally defamatory and questions my integrity, I am entitled to defend myself. Last Friday (timed perfectly so I was out of the country) Kitchee held a press conference and I was personally blamed for an ‘administrative blunder’ the result of which... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/2048636/i-have-set-record-straight-read-hong-kong-fa-chiefs-lengthy-article?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/2048636/i-have-set-record-straight-read-hong-kong-fa-chiefs-lengthy-article?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 23 Nov 2016 08:12:22 +0000 As a young child in the late 1960s and early 1970s I instinctively knew that sporting success was part of Great Britain’s heritage and culture. It was ingrained. With, what in retrospect seems like arrogance, we believed we had ‘invented’ most sports and had a right to be good at them. Well, we had just won the football World Cup. Millions of boys were just like me – we all wanted to be the next Bobby Moore, Bobby Charlton or in my brother’s case Geoffrey Boycott. But towards the end of the... https://www.scmp.com/sport/other-sport/article/2009828/success-breeds-success-great-britain-after-investment-pays?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/other-sport/article/2009828/success-breeds-success-great-britain-after-investment-pays?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 27 Aug 2016 06:07:01 +0000