Saturday, 5 October 2013

The Brady Bunch

Karen Brady – does her homework, eh?

Sean Farrell, writing in the Guardian: “Brady used her position as the league’s only female chief executive to her advantage, according to a source who saw her operate at the time: “She can be very charming with blokes of a certain age and, though I hesitate to say it, vaguely coquettish.” But aside from charm, a recurring theme in the Brady story is that she did her homework.”

Sean, mate. Do your homework, there’s a good lad.

Ron Atkinson:

[Asked] Did Karren Brady, who was at Birmingham at the time, really ask you if Dalian Atkinson was your son?

Yes she did. We were having a photo shoot before Aston Villa played Manchester United in the League Cup final in 1994. We're having lunch and she's reading the programme. She is going through how good our squad is at Villa and she says: "Oh the number 10, Atkinson, your son's in the team". I hadn't got the heart to tell her.

















Ron and Dalian Atkinson, er, not father and son, actually, Karen.

Two things:

  1. Merit. Jobs, rewards, promotions, the whole shebang. If you give the best candidate the job, there’s no ethnic, gender, or any other questions to answer. The best man or woman won. If you’d walked into a bar in (say) Glasgow (a long way from Birmingham), and said Dalian son of Ron, you’d’ve been laughed out of the door before your first sip of heavy. Brady was on the board at Birmingham, Villa’s local rivals. Merit? Homework? Do me a favour.

  1. Plastic sports fans. About the same time a BBC sports anchor confused a stumping with a run out. Not a heinous crime by any stretch of the imagination, but another suggestion that the job hadn’t been awarded to the best candidate, but on other grounds.

Brady is on some loathsome tripe-telly for morons with the odious A**n S***r, and is now some sort of business advisor to the tory party, who she’s been in love with since Thatcher. That’s the Thatcher who besmeared the Hillsborough victims and hated  sport in general and football in particular.


Google Liam Brady if you want someone who merits attention.

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