City fan to become FA Chairman?

[Dubai Blue]

Tesco boss Sir Terry Leahy is the heavyweight name being promoted inside and outside the FA as the preferred choice to be the next chairman of English football's ruling body.

Support for Leahy has grown since he announced he would step down as Tesco chief executive in March, which fits the FA timetable of appointing a permanent chairman after the 2018 World Cup vote in December.

Leahy would also suit the Government, who want a properly independent FA chairman rather than someone from inside the football family.

The FA are in the process of abolishing the statute requiring their leader to have been free of football ties for 12 months.

But Leahy, who first watched Everton in 1962, has plenty of football knowledge gained through his Goodison attachment as well as Tesco's FA sponsorship and his England 2018 advisory role.

The void at the top of the FA is all too clear and reluctant caretaker chairman Roger Burden announced during his speech before the Community Shield that it would be the last time he was heard at Wembley.

Beleaguered Club England and Premier League chairman Sir Dave Richards, under increasing pressure to step down from one of those roles, is speaking for the FA before tonight's England match.

Read more: <a class="postlink" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/article-1301962/Charles-Sale-Sir-Terry-Leahy-Football-Association-little-helps-.html#ixzz0wHiQf828" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/articl ... z0wHiQf828</a>

 

[Seasideblue]

Tesco boss Sir Terry Leahy is the heavyweight name being promoted inside and outside the FA as the preferred choice to be the next chairman of English football's ruling body.

Support for Leahy has grown since he announced he would step down as Tesco chief executive in March, which fits the FA timetable of appointing a permanent chairman after the 2018 World Cup vote in December.

Leahy would also suit the Government, who want a properly independent FA chairman rather than someone from inside the football family.

The FA are in the process of abolishing the statute requiring their leader to have been free of football ties for 12 months.

But Leahy, who first watched Everton in 1962, has plenty of football knowledge gained through his Goodison attachment as well as Tesco's FA sponsorship and his England 2018 advisory role.

The void at the top of the FA is all too clear and reluctant caretaker chairman Roger Burden announced during his speech before the Community Shield that it would be the last time he was heard at Wembley.

Beleaguered Club England and Premier League chairman Sir Dave Richards, under increasing pressure to step down from one of those roles, is speaking for the FA before tonight's England match.

Read more: <a class="postlink" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/article-1301962/Charles-Sale-Sir-Terry-Leahy-Football-Association-little-helps-.html#ixzz0wHiQf828" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/articl ... z0wHiQf828</a>

Sounds like an Everton fan to me ?

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Is this a "clarkie" attempt?

Terry Leahy's a well-known blue dipper and arranged the deal for them to build a new ground in Kirby. Are you getting him confused with Ryanair's Michael O'Leary?

 

[bluevengence]

 

[Dubai Blue]

Is this a "clarkie" attempt?

Obviously didn't work as the first two posters in actually read the whole article, which is almost unheard of on Bluemoon. Oh well.

Interesting appointment anyway. Could be just the man to sort the FA out once and for all.

 

[Ubiquitous]

There are some directors/senior managers at Tesco who are City fans, including Retail Director David Potts who used to live in Stalybridge. But Sir Terry is as bin dipper as they come.

 

[Seasideblue]

Is this a "clarkie" attempt?

Obviously didn't work as the first two posters in actually read the whole article, which is almost unheard of on Bluemoon. Oh well.

Interesting appointment anyway. Could be just the man to sort the FA out once and for all.

lol Well i must be unusual as i normally read a link before posting on it :-)

 

[Dubai Blue]

Obviously didn't work as the first two posters in actually read the whole article, which is almost unheard of on Bluemoon. Oh well.

Interesting appointment anyway. Could be just the man to sort the FA out once and for all.

lol Well i must be unusual as i normally read a link before posting on it :-)

You'd be surprised.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Is this a "clarkie" attempt?

Obviously didn't work as the first two posters in actually read the whole article, which is almost unheard of on Bluemoon. Oh well.

Interesting appointment anyway. Could be just the man to sort the FA out once and for all.

The FA is beyond sorting out while it employs self-serving serial failures like Dave Richards. It's still the same organisation that had Peter Swales as chairman of the International Committee.

 

[Dubai Blue]

Obviously didn't work as the first two posters in actually read the whole article, which is almost unheard of on Bluemoon. Oh well.

Interesting appointment anyway. Could be just the man to sort the FA out once and for all.

The FA is beyond sorting out while it employs self-serving serial failures like Dave Richards. It's still the same organisation that had Peter Swales as chairman of the International Committee.

That's certainly a damning indictment, but you'd hope that a modern-day success story like Leahy would be able to give it the hefty boot up the arse it needs. He'd need to be given carte blanche though; it'd be thoroughly depressing if he went in and the status quo destroyed him as well. If Leahy can't sort it out then I don't know who can.