Giggs and Sheringham honoured
Agents happy with Stevens Report
Former Manchester United team-mates Ryan Giggs and Teddy Sheringham are honoured in the Queen’s birthday honours list. Nine-time title winner Giggs is awarded the OBE for services to sport while veteran striker Sheringham is awarded the MBE for services to football. FA chairman Geoff Thompson is also made an OBE while Jim Leishman, director of football at Dunfermline Athletic, receives an MBE. Ex-Scunthorpe United centre-back and current vice-president Ian Botham- more probably for his legendary cricket status and remarkable charity fund-raising efforts - becomes a knight.
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Despite seventeen transfers, five Premier League clubs and fifteen agents being named in Lord Stevens’ report into alleged transfer irregularities, the Association of Football Agents insist they are content with the outcome. AFA vice-president Chris Heaton-Harris explains:
“People who I represent are very comfortable with the findings. Most agents are actually reputable businessmen who just want to get on with their jobs and work with the Football Association and work with the Premier League and have worked very happily with Lord Stevens. There are, I’m afraid, still a few rogue agents out there and this inquiry has highlighted that. I guess money does corrupt a few.”