*This is an interview that appeared on Danny Last's excellent European Football Weekends site on
Saturday 20th August 2011.
PATRICK COLLINS INTERVIEW
by Adam Bate
Patrick Collins has been the chief sports writer of the Mail on Sunday since the newspaper's
launch in 1982.
*This is an interview that appeared on Danny Last's excellent European Football Weekends site on
Saturday 20th August 2011.
PATRICK COLLINS INTERVIEW
by Adam Bate
Patrick Collins has been the chief sports writer of the Mail on Sunday since the newspaper's
launch in 1982.
By Darshan Joshi
Once the foundations have been laid, the stage is set for rapid success. It has been three years
now since the Abu Dhabi United Group acquired Manchester City from the scandal-clad palms of
Thaksin Shinawatra, and progress has been steady.
Buriram PEA, under their flamboyant owner Newin Chidchob (named after a Burmese dictator), claim
Arsenal will be playing Leicester City to inaugurate their new stadium sometime in July. The same
report suggests that Arsenal pulled the plug on a tour of Japan following the earthquake there.
Buriram PEA will win this season's Thai Premier League, it's written in the tea leaves.
