RFL chief in pole for Sport England chair 19/12/2008 |
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Sport England announced the distrib-ution of £480m of public funds this week despite lacking a permanent chair.
Interviews will not take place for the role until next month, after the government's pursuit of Sir Keith Mills failed when he favoured a less time-consuming position with the Football Association's World Cup 2018 bid. It meant the awards were made under the interim chairmanship of Michael Farrar, who is not even believed to be the government's second choice for the role.
The man who is, Richard Lewis, is chairman of the Rugby Football League. His reputation as an outstanding sports administrator has been built with a series of independent reviews for sports, including on the state of English youth football, which led to the inception of a multi-stakeholder youth-development group.
Lewis's administrative excellence was apparent on Tuesday when it emerged that despite its lack of a national reach, the RFL had won £29.4m, the fourth-highest award after football, cricket and - marginally - rugby union.
Should he be appointed, Lewis's first duties will be to appoint a deputy and to ease the simmering tension between Sport England and the England & Wales Cricket Board. The national summer sport has been angered by what it claims is a "real-terms" cut of 33% in its funding.
(Source: Guardian.co.uk)
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