Campbells not wanted here

In the Times, Martin Samuel argues that using spin doctors in sport can be counterproductive, like when Clive Woodward took Alastair Campbell on the 2005 Lions tour of New Zealand:

In New Zealand, Campbell's presence merely created a permanent negative story concerning the Lions' overblown backroom staff, so lavishly assembled that it even included a propagandist, the man who helped to compile the discredited dossier used to justify the invasion of Iraq.