But he told MEPs that the negotiations had gone well under the circumstances.

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Had his efforts gone undetected he would have played the Under-20 Championship a month short of his 26th birthday.

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And he gave a frank assessment of where New Labour had gone wrong in its early days in government under Mr Blair, when it saw public service reform in terms of "centralisation rather than decentralisation".

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Feld is particularly controversial inside EDS. He had run technology under Jordan when they both were at Frito-Lay in the 1980s, and Feld had gone on to start a small consulting shop.

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He returned to Liverpool in 1992 with Anfield fully expecting him to turn the heat back up under the team which had gone off the boil a little from the glory days of the 1970 and 80s.

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