Dyke’s job on line over FA shake-up
FA CHAIRMAN Greg Dyke is putting his position leading English football’s ruling body on the line with his governance reform plans.
Dyke is due to open talks at this week’s FA board meeting and his modernisation blueprint is sure to antagonise FA councillors — a number of whom stand to lose their roles and the perks that go with them.
Dyke has opponents already in the council chamber following the huge restructuring of FA staff that will see nearly 200 people lose their jobs to save £30million a year, with more money being diverted to coaching and facilities.
The former BBC director-general needs the backing of the blazers in a ballot next summer if he wants to extend his chairmanship for another year, taking him past the age limit of 70.
Culling the councillors could well see him voted out of office, but Dyke is undecided whether he wants another year at the helm.
THERE is widespread concern in football about the way Steve Evans replaced Uwe Rosler as Leeds United manager, with allegations doing the rounds that the ex-Rotherham boss (right) was touting himself for the job to owner Massimo Cellino while the German was still in charge. It seems a case for the League Managers Association, but they will only investigate if Rosler makes a complaint. THE unfolding German corruption scandal around the 2006 World Cup includes allegations that FIFA ExCo member Charles Dempsey, who flew home to New Zealand without voting having been mandated to back South Africa as hosts, was paid £165,000.
However, the flimsy evidence against Dempsey is his name written in the margins of a payments sheet by whistleblower and former German FA president Theo Zwanziger.
The fall- out has kiboshed any chance of German FA chief Wolfgang Niersbach becoming UEFA president and wrecked the image of football great Franz Beckenbauer.
BBC Sport are not singing from the same hymn sheet over the FIFA presidential candidature of Sheik Salman. Sports editor Dan Roan has been tweeting the many criticisms of Salman’s questionable human rights record, while colleague Richard Conway handed the Bahraini the global BBC platform to say all the allegations are ‘nasty lies’.