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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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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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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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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I was keen to see Eileen Drewery because I thought her name was Eileen Brewery.
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Sven's contract goes through to 2008 and that's what we're working to,
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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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We are not prepared to compromise or take any risk on this.
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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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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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We will be in the business of appointing who we believe will be the right man to take care of one of the finest international teams in the world.
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We have about five months (to make the appointment). This is not the time to look any further forward than the World Cup. But I have gone on record as saying we want the best man for the job and if that is an Englishman, so much the better.