PFA Stick Their Noses Into The Chelsea Statement
September 10th, 2006 by Alan HylandsIt was only a matter of time before the most highly paid trade union boss in Britain stuck his nose into one of football’s hottest topics of discussion and, unsurprisingly, Gordon Taylor has came down on the side of one his member’s in the dispute.
I’m talking about the Chelsea statement “explaining” William Gallas’ transfer to Arsenal and the behaviour exhibited by the player while at Chelsea which prompted the move.
We’ve been thorugh this whole subject and the rights and wrongs of both Gallas’s supposed threats to sabotage a Chelsea game if selected and Chelsea’s inability to avoid washing their dirty linen in public but now with the storm cluds beginning to dissipate a little over the issue we have Gordon Taylor of the PFA wading in and planting his flag firmly in William Gallas’ corner. What a shock that is.
Taylor has a long record of fudging important issues in the game and plainly putting the continuation of his own position as head of the Professional Footballers’ Association before the good of the game and while I agree with him over the washing of Chelsea’s dirty linen in public, he is once again exacerbating a problem in the game by not denouncing the bully boy tactics of Gallas in threatening to score own goals and get sent off deliberately if he was selected to play for the club who was paying his wages.
To reclaim any credibility within the game Gordon Taylor needs to take a long hard look at both himself and his organisation and see where they can come forward and help educate their members towards a more ethical way of conducting their behaviour both on and off the pitch. It won’t happen though because anyone in a priveliged position knows that it’s madness to bite the hand that feeds you and with the members of the PFA paying Gordon Taylor so well, he’s not crazy enough to start stirring things up in that regard.
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