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Handbag gifts come back to haunt England 2018 World Cup bid

Source: The Guardian

Nov 04, 2009

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• Fifa vice-president Jack Warner returns handbag
• Describes gift as 'symbol of derision and betrayal'

England 2018's handbags have become "a symbol of derision, betrayal and embarrassment for me and my family", according to one of the men who will decide whether the World Cup finals return to these shores.

The row over the bid's £230 Mulberry freebies presented to the wives of Fifa executive-committee members last month has returned to haunt the Football Association after the organisation's vice-president, Jack Warner, yesterday revealed he was sending back the promotional gift.

The made-in-England handbag was presented to Mrs Warner last month by the former FA chairman, Geoff Thompson, at a dinner event in London. The couple were attending the Leaders in Football conference where Warner, president of Concacaf, was a guest speaker.

The goodwill gesture caused a furore at a time when England's 2018 team had hoped attention would focus on the unveiling of their star-studded team of ambassadors. Instead they found themselves defending the decision to dispatch 24 h

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