You may think , the Football Association chief executive who completes three years in the job today, does not have much to celebrate.
Under his watch, England have failed to qualify for a major championships for the first time since the 1994 failure to reach the World Cup in the USA.
Yet the Barwick I interviewed at Wembley against a backdrop of a lovingly-tended pitch could not have appeared more relaxed. Indeed, he was a lot more relaxed than I have seen him in recent times.
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is fascinating. The first question is why should five unnamed investors, three Americans, a Chinese and a Korean invest in a club doomed to relegation?
The answers to that question are complex and we first need to understand the deal. The details announced are sketchy but well-placed sources have told me fascinating facts which go a long way to explaining why Derby have been taken over.
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³¢¾±±¹±ð°ù±è´Ç´Ç±ô’s still leaves a lot of questions unanswered.
The debt burden this will put on the club, the future of manager Rafa Benitez, and whether this means the club will now not be sold to , who have been sniffing around.
The fine print of this package should be subjected to close scrutiny.
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Britain's lack of quality homegrown coaches is . Fabio Capello's £6m-a-year appointment was justified by the Football Association on the grounds that he was , a clear implication that no Englishman was worthy of the label.
The Premiership is in thrall to foreign coaches but football is hardly unique; nearly all this country's major sports have had .
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The deal that Fifa, Uefa and the G14 group of clubs will see the top clubs at the top table of football, sharing some of the money from World Cups and European Championships.
The G14 clubs, which include Arsenal, Liverpool, and Manchester United among its membership, will disband as part of the deal.
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this week saw the passing of one of the most remarkable sports writers it has been my privilege to know.
I was a junior reporter on the Sunday Times when I first met Dudley, already a legend on the paper and its chief sports writer.
The sports pages were then in the forefront of sports reporting, but, even in such a talented team of great writers, Dudley stood out.
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Indian sources insist did not use the word ‘monkey’ during the that provoked the recent cricket crisis between and .
But they have admitted to me he abused with a highly offensive remark about his mother. Which is clearly wrong.
They, however, also now claim that he was speaking in Hindi and that the three Australians who heard him – Symonds, and - misinterpreted the words as ‘big monkey’.
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