Brian Barwick
Brian Barwick
Brian Barwick, is an English sports administrator who currently serves as the Chairman of the Rugby Football Leagueand Super League Europe Ltd and is a Board member of the Rugby League International Federation. He is also Chairman of football’s National League and a member of The Football Association Council...
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I expect him to be with us until the European Championship of 2008. He enjoys the job and we enjoy having him. There is a bigger picture; we are not naive, but we are dealing with having Sven on board for some time to come.
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Until you sit where Sven sits, the profile of the job is unimaginable and with it the newsworthy value follows it.
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We have been taking advice from experts and they still think it is on course to finish on time.
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We are in discussions with FIFA on retrospective disciplinary action and we have raised diving as a priority area where video evidence could be used.
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We have the opportunity, if we want, to get the person in place hopefully before the finals.
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We were speaking to Felipe as part of the process of recruiting the next coach and that process continues.
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We've got the best part of six months in real terms - the first international after the World Cup is in August - but that will not be the way we play it. I hope the appointment won't be after the World Cup and there's no reason why it should be. We have the opportunity of appointing before the World Cup and the upside of that is they can watch the side they will inherit in August with a sense of semi-distant ownership, and it may well be an advantage.
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Peter Osgood made a wonderful contribution to English football, playing four times for the national side and serving clubs like Chelsea and Southampton with such great distinction.
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We are not prepared to compromise or take any risk on this.
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It would be disrespectful to discuss successors now but the key thing would be to find the best man for the job. If he's English, then so be it.
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I'm giving Sven an opportunity to take the best English side since 1966 to a World Cup, and that's my way of saying I have a fantastic degree of confidence in his ability to deliver for us.
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I like him as a man and I think he's proved with his competitive record that he's an extremely good England coach and I get on will with him personally.
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Alan Smith was given an opportunity to play for England and chose to play elsewhere. It's probably not the cleverest thing he's done.
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Due to the magnitude of the Final, we are not prepared to compromise or take any risks on the stadium being unable to stage such a significant event.