Man City Appoint (Another) Spin Doctor
Monday, June 9th, 2008 by Mark Hanson
It looks like Manchester City Football Club owner, Thaksin Shinawatra, needs more PR people than centre forwards! We hear he’s now working with former News of the World editor and svengali to the stars, Phil Hall.
The former Thai dictator thought that defending a dodgy human rights record was hard until he sacked manager, Sven Goran Eriksson and realised you just don’t mess with football folk.
Sven had the back pages in his pocket and Sinatra found a populist wave against his regime was overwhelming his efforts to be hero to the blues faithful.
Thaksin uses Bell Pottinger to handle his corporate image, no doubt impressed by their work with various pariahs around the world and has an entourage of minders to keep reporters away from him. Now he’s giving Phil Hall the chance to add to his impressive list of football club clients that include West Ham, Portsmouth and Chelsea. Imagine if that was your client load. Carlsberg don’t make PR agencies but…….
Perhaps Frank Sinatra was impressed with the work Hall did with Avram Grant
