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SCUMBAG PARRY 28-9-04
Rick Parry is a former member of the English Football Association and is currently the chief executive of Liverpool Football Club. I hope that he gets to read this article because I would like to say here and now that the man is a slag of the highest order and I say that with the highest level of disrespect that I could possibly pay to any one living person.
Before I justify those comments, I need to point out that this is in no way meant to be derisory to the club that Parry currently represents who are a great club with a great tradition and a great history. Any Liverpool fans who take personal offence to this article have my sincerest apologies but I cannot help thinking that a club of your stature deserves to have someone representing it who possesses a better personality than this loathsome man Parry who demonstrated last week that he is lower than whale shit.
I picked up a copy of last week's London Evening Standard and was horrified to read the comments by Parry on the back page. Here is the article in full:
Brian Clough was back at the centre of controversy today, three days after his death, when one of the men charged with looking into allegations he took bungs during his career said he should have been found guilty.
Rick Parry, now the chief executive of Liverpool, was part of a three-man panel which conducted a six-year investigation into claims that the former Nottingham Forest manager accepted unsolicited payments in player transfers.
He was charged with misconduct by the Football Association in 1998 but the case was dropped on the grounds of Clough's ill health.
But, in an interview with today's Daily Telegraph, Parry said: "On the balance of evidence we felt he was guilty of taking bungs."
"The evidence was pretty strong. I was very surprised when the FA took no action against him or Forest.
By the time our inquiry started, Clough was no longer in football and we could not compel him to appear. But he did come, on his own, to the offices of lawyers Denton Hall. He was lucid, treated our inquiry with respect, but it was not particularly productive." The bungs inquiry began in 1993 when former Tottenham chairman Sir Alan Sugar accused Clough as part of a legal action against former manager and chief executive Terry Venables. Both Venables and Clough denied the claims.
Parry, QC Robert Reid and Steve Coppell, followed up the claims and spent a long time probing Teddy Sheringham's £2.1million move to Nottingham Forest in August 1992. It was alleged £58,750 went missing in the deal amid murky claims centred on brown envelopes being handed over at motorway service stations.
The allegations against Clough were never proved. At the end of the six-year investigation, which cost £3m, Forest were fined just £25,000 for irregular payments to players and staff.
After a separate inquiry into illegal payments to players Tottenham were fined £600,000 and docked 12 points in 1994.
Clough died on Monday from stomach cancer. At Nottingham Forest's City Ground last night there was a minute's silence before Gareth Taylor scored both goals in a 2-1 Carling Cup second round win over Rotherham.
There were 11,168 supporters - twice as many as were expected a week ago.
Brian Clough was not found guilty of these allegations and under the terms of British law, that means exactly that. Brian Clough was not guilty, no more, no less. He voluntarily turned up at the hearings and by Parry's own admission, was respectful and open and for an enquiry member to start bleeting about the fact that his own chair did not produce the result that he desired is frankly appalling and disrespectful to a great man who recently passed away.
Rick Parry will never be half the man that Brian Clough was and whilst I would never deny anybody the right to say what they think, I have to state that Parry's comments were mistimed and completely out of order. The whole thing smacks of the power crazed executive who is bitter about being denied his moment of glory by somebody whose status he could never hope to attain. Rest in Peace Brian and I hope that when you meet (P)Rick Parry on the other side that you kick his ass because he deserves it.
And now a lighter moment. It's great to see an old Boro lad putting his talents to good use in Geordieland but I wonder if the new disciplinary regime is being taken too far at Newcastle. Check out this headline that appeared on Yahoo late last week and make your own mind up about it...
A trip to Ostrava beckons this week and despite police advice not to travel without a ticket, I would not miss this occasion for anything. The two sets of fans really struck up an accord during the home leg and I expect the event to be a celebratory affair and envisage having a great time and a great drink with the Czech fans.
I cannot begin to guess what our line up will be though as we now seem to have half a team out injured, pending the midweek diagnosis' on Saturday's victims. We could possibly be without Mark Viduka, Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, Joseph Desire Job, Ray Parlour, Szilard Nemeth, Ugo Ehiogu, Gaizka Mendieta and Chris Riggott as well as Michael Reiziger, which is a very worrying thought. I still don't think that it is feasible for us to lose by four goals, even if we play a full team of reserves but with our long list of walking wounded, it may turn out to be more of a struggle than we initially thought.
The fearsome Banik police force in their pink berets
Despite the injury list, it is absolutley imperative that we arrest our losing run and restore the confidence that we started the season with. The next Premier league match is at Old Trafford against a resurgent Manchester United and we will need to be at our very best to beat them. Hopefully, a good win in Ostrava will put us back on track and give us the foundation to regain our top six position.
Until next week...
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