Tuesday, 14 December 2010

FACA funny

At last week's FA Coaches' Association Conference at Wembley there was one moment that got everybody laughing.
Eric Harrison, McDonald's Head of Coaching, gave a short talk on what the burger giants are doing for the game and told us about his days under Alex Ferguson at Man Utd when he was helping to develop Beckham, Scholes, Butt and the Nevilles.
When he had finished the MC, Radio 5 Live's Mark Clemmit, told the 600-plus audience of grassroots coaches that we all had a chance to get Eric down to our club to take a session.
We were told that under one of our seats was taped a golden ticket to clinch the prize.
We all reached down to check and all were disappointed apart from one guy just behind me.
Proudly he held aloft the ticket.
Clemmit asked him to stand and tell us his name. 'Ali' he shouted to the MC.
'Come on down Ali,' cried Clemmit as we all clapped.
As he made his way to the podium, Clemmit reminded us what he had won. Eric would come to his club and conduct a special session using his insight and knowledge gleaned from years in the game.
By this time Ali had reached the stage.
'Where are you from Ali,' Clemmit asked.
'Egypt,' he replied.

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