First chair’s background in football finance and his Labour links helped land historic job he did not initially apply for
The impending appointment of David Kogan as the chair of the new Independent Football Regulator has surprised many in the sport, given that the media rights specialist was not on the three-person shortlist, but in retrospect he may have been hiding in plain sight.
In a House of Lords debate on the Football Governance Bill last November David Triesman, a Labour peer and former Football Association chair, effectively recommended Kogan for the job, name-checking Kogan’s former company Reel Enterprises, which for 13 years sold media rights on behalf of the Premier League.
