"Simon Clegg" CBE is one of the UK’s most experienced sports businessmen and leaders. He has been Chief Executive of the British Olympic Association, a Championship Football Club and a European Youth Olympic Festival as well as managing a national ski team and Team GB athletes at 12 Olympic and Olympic Winter Games. In addition he orchestrated the national political and PR campaigns to persuade the Government and Mayor of London to bid for the 2012 Olympic Games.

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The challenge for us is that we're never going to be able to deliver that level of results on a consistent basis because of our lack of facilities.

In this era of lottery funding, the money tends to follow successful sports and successful athletes. Certainly, failure makes it more difficult to succeed.

The position adopted by the Scottish FA ... was disappointing, especially given the assurances that have been made to home country football associations regarding ongoing international representation by ... FIFA.

The BOA believes the British public are behind the idea of team GB football in 2012.

Don't expect too much too soon.

There is not the degree of consistency ... that allows one to confidently predict that we shall be returning from Turin with a medal.

The problem is you can't predict where that medal will come from. You have to make that investment.

Naturally the detail of the mechanism that will make this happen needs further work but it is great news for the country that both men's and women's teams are now certain to be represented at the London 2012 Olympic Games.

However, we are excited at the prospect of fielding both men's and women's football teams in 2012, which will be a real boost to the grass roots of the sport, particularly women's football, over the coming seven years.