13 June 2006

Me, I'm a Brazil nut...

The First Minister continues to take the flak for his footballing preferences. The Scotsman reports:
"JACK McConnell, the First Minister, was coming under increasing pressure last night to retract his anti-English stance on the World Cup after it emerged that a Scottish golf complex had missed out on thousands of pounds of trade as a direct result of his comments.
The Scotsman revealed yesterday that an unnamed English company had withdrawn from a conference in Scotland after managers reacted angrily to Mr McConnell's decision to support one of England's opponents, Trinidad and Tobago, in Germany...
Mr McConnell refused to accept he had offended anybody. "I don't think I have ruffled any feathers at all," he said. "This is a football tournament, not a war."

That being so, perhaps he should have kept his mouth shut?

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