Faria Alam again!

Former English Football Association secretary Faria Alam leaves her employment tribunal in London on Tuesday. PHOTO: Reuters

The English Football Association has revealed a series of e-mails it says were sent by former employee Faria Alam in which she boasts of her relationships with senior figures in the organisation.

Alam, 39, had an affair with both England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson, 56, and the FA's chief executive Mark Palios, 52. Palios resigned in mid-2004 after the affairs became public.

The former secretary is suing the FA for unfair dismissal.

She resigned from her post last August following newspaper revelations of her affairs, later selling her story to the press for 300,000 pounds.

Alam said that she felt forced to resign because of media pressure, which she added had been created in part by leaks about her private life from within the FA.

However, in Wednesday's employment tribunal hearing she was questioned by the FA's barrister Jeffrey Bacon, who suggested that it was her own "boasting e-mails" on the FA's e-mail system, some of which were sold to a newspaper by the recipient, that had allowed the story to emerge.

Bacon said that one mail said: "I'm 36, unmarried and loving it. My social life is amazing and I date famous people although I can't say who."

Bacon said that Alam was aware of the risks of writing such mails on the FA's system and used the code names "Sugar" for Eriksson and "PP" for Palios.

Other alleged Alam e-mails Bacon read out to the hearing included her saying: "I haven't been naughty yet but the guy I will see tomorrow night is the more famous one. Let's call him Sugar, he's very sweet and he's the coach."

"Sugar is brilliant. I want to be happy and very, very rich and successful and I will be.

"If all goes well, I suppose Sugar will have to announce it to the papers."

Alam said that once the affair became public she felt she had to resign and said she wrote her letter of resignation from the office of publicist Max Clifford.

"By that evening you were 300,000 pounds richer," Bacon said, to which Alam replied: "Yes."

"You resigned so you could sell your story," he said, which she denied, claiming her position had become "untenable."

On Tuesday, Alam said she had been sexually harassed by FA executive director David Davies, her immediate boss.

Davies, who denied the allegations later on Tuesday, was at the tribunal on Wednesday, sitting a few feet from Alam, and is expected to give evidence later in the week.

The hearing continues later on Wednesday.