The Fulham Football (not american football) manager, Mark Hughes, has said that the club’s chairman, Mohamed Al Fayed, has earned the right to erect a statue of Michael Jackson at Craven Cottage if he wishes to do so. Fayed, who was a friend of the late performer, caused controversy when he announced that he had decided to place the tribute to Michael Jackson outside Fulham’s home ground.
The statue was commissioned after Jackson’s death in June 2009. It was due to be erected at Harrods, before Fayed sold the Knightsbridge store. The decision to relocate it to Craven Cottage is likely to divide opinion. Jackson’s links to Fulham are tenuous – he watched a game there, as a guest of Fayed, in 1999 – and the singer was dogged by controversy during his lifetime.
Hughes said: “In fairness to the chairman, he’s fully supported this club for a long time now, put in something like £200m. And if he wants to make that gesture to somebody who he knew personally then who am I to pass comment on it? The fact that it’s at the football club will maybe cause a debate,” he said. “But, really, we shouldn’t question our chairman’s motives.”
Source: Guardian
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