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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We welcome the prompt action taken by the Burnley magistrates to jail Michael Lewis for five months today.
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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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Thankfully, these kinds of incidents are few and far between these days and that is due to the increased vigilance of our game. It is also why behavior of this nature must be treated seriously and swiftly - sending a clear message to those involved that their actions will not be tolerated.
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We...insisted that clamping down on diving be made a priority area at this summer's World Cup.
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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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These are very serious claims that Mike Newell has made.
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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.
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Equally, we have taken the prudent step to book the Millennium Stadium.
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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'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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I was in Lisbon yesterday talking to Luiz Felipe Scolari as part of our ongoing process to recruit the next senior England national coach. That process continues apace.
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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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If and when we qualify, we would go into the World Cup as one of the teams that can win it.