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Man of the week Jack Warner – named in leaked documents showing how Australia's 2022 World Cup bid team have spent their funds so far. On the list: a £1,100 pearl necklace for Mrs Jack – a gift requested by Warner when he found out other top Fifa wives had been given similar pearl-based "goodwill gestures". Australia's bid team say the gifts "broke no rules". (Also last year: Jack returns a £230 Mulberry handbag given to Mrs Jack by the England 2018 bid after it was made public. Jack says "media smears" implying he could be bribed were defamatory: "This experience has taught me something about the English media. It speaks about their credibility, their commitment to truth – and their loyalty to honesty.") • Elsewhere in the documents leaked to The Age newspaper: allegations that money from the 2022 bid – largely from Australia's taxpayers – was spent on flying Jack's Trinidad & Tobago U20 team to a training centre in Cyprus last year – with part of the travel contract for the tour given to Jack's own family travel company. "Fifa is looking into these matters," says a statement. "We cannot make any further comment." • Also doing well from the bid: Fedor Radmann, appointed as a consultant on a £1.9m salary plus £2.2m success bonus. Radmann's career highlights: long-time Sepp associate, former managing director of ISL – Fifa's marketing agency which collapsed in 2001 after paying £60m in bribes (Radmann was not implicated), plus allegations in 2000, all denied, about a scheme to incentivise key Fifa officials to back Germany's 2006 bid. Radmann later stepped down from the Germany 2006 organising committee after awarding a lucrative contract to his business partner. The parallel Quote of the week : Sepp finally finds the parallel he's been looking for. "Fifa can continue to help South Africa's development, but we expect South Africans to work hard too. There is a saying: 'help yourself and God helps you'." England news Early day motion of the week: Tory MP David Amess attacks England's "pathetic" World Cup exit and calls for an "urgent inquiry into the state of the national game and players [who] are grossly overpaid". Also from Amess this year: repays £1,100 in overclaimed expenses; admits failing to declare two free trips to the Maldives taken before asking 15 questions in the house about UK support for the islands; and hides in a Southend hairdresser's to avoid journalists asking why he claimed £400 for food at his second home 40 miles away, every month for four years. The game that ate itself Ambush marketing news last week: Fifa stop and search 500 Fifa World Cup volunteers in Durban who were given Pepsi instead of Coca-Cola in their free Fifa packed lunches – "an inappropriate drink brand" in a Fifa controlled brand zone. "We were shocked," says a volunteer. "Our drinks were thrown into rubbish bins. It was very embarrassing." The top jobs Fabio Capello's salary is "normal" for a top job, says Sven. "When you talk about the England, Inter, AC Milan, Chelsea or Manchester United jobs then they must pay well." And for the Ivory Coast job: £2m plus an uncapped expenses account, team credit card and luxury suite. ("I don't think I am paid that well. But I am happy.") Thought for the day Friday : Eusébio, wearing an Adidas T-shirt at the Adidas Golden Boot launch in Johannesburg: "Modern football is nothing but commercialism". And finally: model news • Martín Demichelis's girlfriend Evangelina Anderson – condemned by his dad as a "nightmare model" who "pesters the boy" – says last week's pledge that she would not distract the Argentina star in South Africa was "false". "When I told the country I would be modest I was telling a joke. Martín needed my congress." • Paraguayan model Dallys Ferreira – who pledged to sleep with the squad after the tournament – says the World Cup has been "too much to bear". "I very nearly gave birth during the penalties against Japan. God only knows how I suffer."
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