FA COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR GIVES STATEMENT TO THE MEDIA IN SOPWELL, 2003-10-08 (photo)

Paul Barber (L), Communications Director for the English FA (Football Association), with FA Chief Media Officer Andrew Bevington (R) gives a statement to the media against a backrop of a photograph of England players Rio Ferdinand and David Beckham at the England soccer training headquarters in Sopwell in southern England, October 8, 2003. England players and the FA will meet again later on Wednesday to try and head off a possible boycott by the players of the Euro 2004 qualifier in Turkey on October 11, relating to the FA's decision to drop Rio Ferdinand from the squad for failing to turn up to a drugs test. REUTERS/Toby Melville TM/ASA