Buster the Bear
22nd Mar 2004, 15:01
Stansted Airport has kicked off a bid to persuade England’s soccer team to use the Essex hub for the Euro 2004 Championships in Portugal this summer.
Europe’s fastest-growing airport is setting up talks with the FA after hearing chief executive Mark Palios tell Business Weekly’s recent East of England Business Awards dinner that the rules of Association Football were drawn up in the region.
Stansted finance director Andy Mears said: “It would be fitting for England to come home, as winners of Euro 2004, to the region where the roots of Association Football were first put down.
“It would also be handy for Becks to get home to ‘Beckingham Palace,’ which is just around the corner from the airport.”
Mears said many teams, including Arsenal, Spurs, Newcastle, West Ham, Ipswich and the Dutch national squad, already flew from Stansted
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Europe’s fastest-growing airport is setting up talks with the FA after hearing chief executive Mark Palios tell Business Weekly’s recent East of England Business Awards dinner that the rules of Association Football were drawn up in the region.
Stansted finance director Andy Mears said: “It would be fitting for England to come home, as winners of Euro 2004, to the region where the roots of Association Football were first put down.
“It would also be handy for Becks to get home to ‘Beckingham Palace,’ which is just around the corner from the airport.”
Mears said many teams, including Arsenal, Spurs, Newcastle, West Ham, Ipswich and the Dutch national squad, already flew from Stansted
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