If you insist on playing with it at least get things in perspective......

12,000,000 people in London and no chance once it became obvious to small towns that Ian Lenegan might own 2 teams and Leigh might not get the chance to replace Wakefield, which on a scale of 10 -TO - 1 on the sporting conscience is about minus 12.


The people that count in sponsorship, marketing or advertising couldn't point Leigh or Wakefield out on a map for Christ's sake......

Clare Balding is not a CEO. She is a presenter and a damned good one too!

If we could get someone like Richard Lewis to be Executive Chairman of the RFL, on £350K -- have Clare Balding as President (the public face and voice of rugby league) and confine Nigel Wood to the Championship, and League One -- which is precisely his level of competence -- all would be well. In fact it would be brilliant.

Other than Blatter I can't think of any other head of a sport that's universally disliked. I wonder if he's ever read any feedback on here

Oh, I don't know: that old Brazilian crook who used to run the Olympics, Seb Coe, widely disliked (although maybe mostly for being a Tory), few union fans seem to have a good word for Rob Andrew, Bernie Ecclestone...

Sepp Blatter but fatter ?

I work in the aviation industry £250K is about average for senior engineering managers & managing pilots, our CEO is well over a million with share options & we are not the top payers a national sport looking to be a big player should be paying market rates.