Manchester United row rumbles on as Rafael Benitez questions David Gill
Jan 12 2009
by Ian Doyle, Liverpool Daily Post
RAFAEL BENITEZ has continued his attack on Manchester United by questioning the involvement of David Gill with the Football Association.
United chief executive Gill is a member of the FA’s main board having been voted to join Bolton Wanderers chairman Phil Gartside as the Premier League’s club representatives in June 2006.
Ironically, United had long been critical of the inclusion of Gill’s predecessor on the board, former Arsenal chief executive David Dein.
And after seeing Liverpool held to a goalless draw at struggling Stoke City on Saturday, Anfield manager Benitez queried Gill’s prominence in the FA.
“The situation now is because we are at the top of the table and United were saying Liverpool is not a threat,” said Benitez. “Now they know we are a threat, they have started playing mind games.
“I don’t think it’s a “mind game” when you already have control over everything; it’s a mind game when you have the same level as the other people then you can show you are cleverer than the others.
“But when you have control of everything and your chief executive in the FA and things like this, then that is not mind games. I will push, push and sometimes enough is enough.”
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