MUTUAL GOALS
FOR a supposedly independent regulator of English football, the selection of David Kogan as the government’s preferred choice looks a touch partisan.
The sports rights executive, 67, is a long-time Labour supporter and donor, including to the leadership campaigns of Keir Starmer and now culture secretary Lisa Nandy. In an article for UnHerd in 2020, shortly after Starmer won the Labour leadership, Kogan wrote that Starmer’s appointments “already show he is geared towards talent, competence and rigour”, adding that the shadow cabinet, including Nandy, was “both a generational shift and a talent upgrade”.