World awaits FA decision on bringing end to democracy
23 Apr 2007 by Glory Sergei
The Football Association will decide tomorrow if it will press ahead with charges against Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho and, in the process, bring down the entire global democratic system.In top-level meetings at Soho House in London tonight, FA executives were understood to be weighing the benefits of issuing a mild rebuke to the Portuguese coach against sending the civilised world into a blood-stained era of legislative mayhem and civil war.
The Chelsea boss intimated in a weekend interview that referees might be reluctant to give penalties at the Old Trafford home of arch rivals Manchester Glockenspiel.
Trevor Brooking, The FA's Director of Football Development, is understood to have lobbied hard for the governing body not to let geopolitical considerations cloud its remit. A close friend said: "Trevor firmly believes that global meltdown is a small price to pay for issuing Mourinho with the most severe of gentle slaps on the wrist."
His success at convincing fellow FA committee members has already sent shockwaves around the world. The previously blameless democratic process in Nigeria has begun to unravel, much as Mourinho had predicted. UN observers called the weekend's poll "the worst we have ever seen".
Meanwhile in France, voting was skewed emphatically by concerns over the choice now facing FA chief executive Brian Barwick as lovable family favourite Jean-Marie Le Pen came an unfathomable last in the first round run-off.
Mourinho was standing by his prediction last night: "And I will add to it... I believe that unless FA is seeing sense, and will award us a penalty now in every game, then I tell you all the Sun will cease to burn and will thrust our world into a millennial ice age and not even the evocative and piercing blue eyes of Cillian Murphy will be able to stand in its way."
