singapore hotel: Swapping Fab for Roy saved FA £2m thanks to Hodgson"s £3.5m salary

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18:28 EST, 23 September 2013

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The latest FA accounts reveal a £2million saving in a period of just six months from Roy Hodgson replacing Fabio Capello as England manager.

The operating costs of Club England — whose biggest individual expense is the manager’s salary — decreased from £8m in 2011 to £6m last year after Capello’s departure in February 2011.

The FA document puts Club England’s total expenditure remaining at £21m, despite the extra tournament costs of Euro 2012, due to ‘savings in the men’s senior team coaching staff’. Hodgson is understood to be earning around £3.5m a year compared to the hugely excessive £6m a year paid to Capello.

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FA general secretary Alex Horne said: ‘Roy earns less than Fabio but the deal with Fabio is confidential. We paid him a small amount of money as severance but it was less than we would have paid him if he had stayed working for the European Championship. Roy started just before the Euros, so we saved money.’

The FA’s overall revenue dropped slightly for the 2012 financial year — from £329m to £318m — with no Champions League final and hosting the Olympic football not making up for the loss of the lucrative summer concert season.

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The FA vowed chairman Greg Dyke’s commission to improve the England team’s fortunes would be formed quickly. But so far only the Football League’s Greg Clarke is a confirmed member, with the Premier League deciding not to have a representative despite Dyke naming PL chairman Anthony Fry in his speech.

The new chief executive of the Lawn Tennis Association, to be unveiled on Tuesday, is going to be on a heavily incentivised salary. This follows the organisation’s embarrassment at the ridiculous £640,000-a-year package paid to the departing Roger Draper, described as ‘unthinkable’ by Baroness Billingham, chair of the all-party tennis group. Meanwhile, the latest executive out of the LTA’s revolving door is commercial director Lawrence Robertson, who has opted to work in Singapore for an events company.

Highly-rated Sky Sports News presenter Hayley McQueen, who was very critical of her colleague Charlie Webster’s pictures in lads mag FHM, wouldn’t have impressed the Sky hierarchy with a photo posted on Twitter at the weekend. Her ‘cheeky little wedding #selfie’ showed a picture — subsequently deleted — of Hayley with her fellow SSN presenter Bianca Westwood, who is making an offensive hand gesture. McQueen is the first host of a new weekly programme promoting women in sport on Tuesday.

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Twittering: Hayley McQueen (left) and Bianca Westwood were the subject of a dubious post on the site

No Wembley turf war

Wembley say they have no doubts about the pitch being in top condition for the upcoming World Cup qualifying double header against Montenegro and Poland despite the first match being just 12 days after the NFL game there between Minnesota Vikings and Pittsburgh Steelers.

The confidence in the Desso surface is such that Wembley would welcome becoming the regular home of an NFL franchise and even has long-term ambitions to host a Super Bowl.

Certainly Wembley needs some extra attractions to ensure they keep their 17,500 corporate seat holders, who bankroll the business plan. Critically, 70 per cent of those debentures expire in 2017 with the expected sales pitch being for shorter contracts than the current set of 10-year deals that wouldn’t sell out again.

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Back again: The NFL returns to Wembley on Sunday as the Minnesota Vikings take on the Pittsburgh Steelers

As if being beaten by Durham to cricket’s County Championship wasn’t bad enough, Yorkshire then had an elderly driver, mistaking the accelerator in his Honda Jazz for the brake, plough his car through the glass entrance to the museum in Headingley’s East Stand and end up in the indoor nets. Despite a 70th birthday party taking place, there were no serious injuries.

American broadcast giants NBC are set to agree a contract to cover the Paralympics at Sochi 2014 and Rio 2016, promising vastly improved coverage. It’s understood 60 hours of action will be shown from Rio compared to the dismal six highlights programmes from the London Paralympics where NBC spent most of their energy dismantling their vast Olympic studio.