Diplomatic own goal

Arsenal fan David Miliband, who is also the UK’s Foreign Secretary, got into hot water in 2008 when he aired frustrations on his blog about the Champions’ League quarter-final in which his team lost 4-2 to Liverpool and bowed out of the tournament. The comments in his blog, which is part of the Foreign Office’s website, included criticism of Swiss defender Philippe Senderos, who apparently ‘left half of north London cursing that he was ever let into the country’. An attach? at the Swiss Embassy responded that although the defender may not have had his best game, that was ‘not a reason for a diplomatic incident between two friendly nations’.

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