Irish Daily Mail

Woodward joins hunt for new PL supremo

EXCLUSIVE By MIKE KEEGAN and LAURA LAMBERT

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CHELSEA chairman Bruce Buck has drafted in Steve Parish and Ed Woodward to help him find a new Premier League chief executive after becoming frustrated by the recruitmen­t process. Animal Planet’s global head Susanna Dinnage and BBC Studios boss Tim Davie have already turned down the role. And Buck, who is head of the nomination­s panel, provided Premier League shareholde­rs with an update on the search yesterday. He told them he was frustrated but not embarrasse­d by the delay in appointing a successor to Richard Scudamore, who quit at the end of last year. Manchester United executive vice-chairman Woodward is a former accountant and investment banker, while Palace chairman Parish’s background is in computer graphics and advertisin­g. Recruitmen­t consultant­s Spencer Stuart are drawing up a new shortlist.

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