"Brian Barwick", is an England/English sports administrator who has served as the chairman of the Rugby Football League (RFL) since January 2013. He is a former chief executive of The Football Association, having held the post from January 2005 to December 2008. He previously worked with the BBC and ITV (TV network)/ITV. He is a known supporter of Liverpool F.C. and is a member of the Board of Directors at Hampton & Richmond Borough F.C. In February 2012 he was appointed by Liverpool F.C owners to the management hierarchy of the club, where his first job was to review the clubs communications network in light of the Luis Suárez racism incident.

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I like him as a man and I think he's proved with his competitive record that he's an extremely good England coach and I get on will with him personally.

We welcome the prompt action taken by the Burnley magistrates to jail Michael Lewis for five months today.

Sven's contract goes through to 2008 and that's what we're working to.

It would be disrespectful to discuss successors now but the key thing would be to find the best man for the job. If he's English, then so be it.

If and when we qualify, we would go into the World Cup as one of the teams that can win it.

I expect him to be with us until the European Championship of 2008. He enjoys the job and we enjoy having him. There is a bigger picture; we are not naive, but we are dealing with having Sven on board for some time to come.

We are clearly giving some serious consideration to putting together a bid for the tournament.

We have been taking advice from experts and they still think it is on course to finish on time.

I was keen to see Eileen Drewery because I thought her name was Eileen Brewery.