Greg Dyke new FA Chairman
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21877945
On that basis, I suggest Harry Rednapp as the next DG of the BBC.
On that basis, I suggest Harry Rednapp as the next DG of the BBC.
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if so, I can see a pattern emerging!
What on earth has football got to do with it?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/news/9945798/Former-BBC-director-general-Greg-Dyke-set-to-become-new-chairman-of-the-FA.html
Now if Harry Redknapp has a background rooted in broadcasting, the first post in this thread might have a point to it.
After Brian Barwick, the ex-Head of ITV Sport, moved to the FA as supremo the TV rights passed from the BBC to ITV.
Watch this space.
Ok i'm watching...........:eek: When can I stop?
I suspect any deal will be done based on money, not favourism.
ex broadcaster becomes head of organisation with coveted broadcasting rights perhaps?
On The Apprentice, Kate Walsh became a TV presenter and Nick Hewer Alan Sugar's advisor with no background in broadcasting before The Apprentice, got a job presenting Countdown.
He was a non-exec at Man Utd for two years. He is apparently a lifelong fan, which is just what English football needs, someone senior to give Fergie and his players even more licence to flout the rules.
As you note, he has been non-exec at Brentford since 2006. He's never had an actual job in football, so I'd hardly describe that as a background rooted in the sport.
I seem to remember when Richard and Judy were advertising for a reporter on their show, by then on satellite, out of hundreds of applicants the only one sufficiently experienced was......Chloe Madley who had never worked in TV.
On another thread it's been pointed out that the BBC1 series The Syndicate, written by Kay Mellor, seems to employ most members of her family in one role or another.
true but the rights are up quite soon so that will be one of his tasks as it is their main source of income
And we all recall fondly what a triumph Barwick was in the role. However, given Dyke's departure from the BBC I'm not sure his appointment gives them much more chance of getting the rights to England matches. Sports programming is becoming increasingly valuable to advertisers due to reduced fast forwarding through the ads, so I'd be surprised if the BBC outbid their commercial rivals.
Greg Dyke has been involved in the game
He has just had to finish a stint as Chairman at Brentford to take up this new role
http://www.brentfordfc.co.uk/news/article/greg-dyke-fa-chairman-21.03.13-727180.aspx
Greg has a long background in football.
He was a director of Manchester United in the late 1990s and was appointed non-executive Chairman of Brentford in 2006.
You could point to a hundred things in their background, but the only way to access a persons suitability for a top job is by letting them have a go.
On that basis I wonder why any of these ex broadcasting executives ever get employed again in the same (or similar) capacity. I mean, who keeps giving Jay Hunt a job?
Greg Dyke excepted, he did pretty well at the BBC.
Greg offered his resignation from the BBC confident the governors would reject it. Unfortunately for him they didn't:eek:
Then that sounds like a reasonable justification. Thanks.
Already in the works at FIFA and the Premier League. Not sure about the other leagues in English football, it's apparently very expensive to install and operate. Why they don't just rely on TV cameras, which settle the debate in 98% of instances, I really don't know, but that's for another forum.
Pretty sure though in the past they have used video evidence to retrospectively ban or rescind a card so not sue how that argument works.
Of course Dyke also `worked at` LWT, so his loyalties may lie with ITV.
I expect money will be the key to where the rights end up.
What does who he supports have to do with anything? Brian Barwick was a big Liverpool fan and the man Greg Dyke is replacing, David Bernstein, was involved with Man City for years.