Friday 1 Tony Pulis, out of work since leaving Portsmouth two years ago, takes over at Stoke. Steve McLaren resigns as Sven’s assistant, saying: “It was never intended to be long-term and it has dragged on.”
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Holland's version of the FA Cup is so underappreciated, many teams field their reserve squads to compete as well. Ernst Bouwes investigates
If the FA Cup is the best and most exciting cup competition in the world, the Amstel Cup, organised by the Dutch FA (KNVB), has to be a contender for the worst. Nowadays, the clubs playing in European competitions are given a bye as far as the last 16. This is only fair, according to the KNVB. “We need our best clubs to do well in Europe to gain points for us in the UEFA ranking,” says the KNVB’s Henk Kesler.
Stephen Wagg offers a revisionist view of Adam Crozier's time in charge at the Football Association
When Adam Crozier left his job as chief executive of the Football Association, I was intrigued by the language in which this was rendered by the football media. It seemed for all the world as if some tribune of the people, having heroically held the line against “commercialism” in the game, had now departed the stage. In his wake the fat cats of the Premier League would now continue to boost their own financial power at the expense of ordinary football folk. When one considers the circumstances of Crozier’s appointment and the key events of his comparatively short tenure at the FA, this seems more than a little absurd.
The FA's permanent fixture, David Davies, has been left in charge of the shop again. Philip Cornwall reflects on a career that defies logical explanation
Amid the swirl of crisis at Soho Square, with the departures of Adam Crozier, Frank Pattison and Howard Wilkinson and the (so far false) rumours about Sven-Goran Eriksson, one man still stands. David Davies’s second term as acting chief executive of the Football Association, this time in joint control with Nic Coward, marks him down as a great survivor.
Roger Mitchell has left the Scottish Premier League, his departure mourned by just about nobody. Paul Hutton rushes to join the chorus of disapproval
It must be open season on football administrators. Just a couple of weeks after Adam Crozier took his leave from the FA, Roger Mitchell, chief executive of the Scottish Premier League, is handing in the keys to the company car.