Calling the Shots: How to Win in Football and Life

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By the time the FA announced plans for a breakaway league on 5 April 1991, only a desire to reduce the division to 18 clubs remained. The new league had become simply a transfer of power, from the Football League to the FA. The League immediately began legal proceedings. It also observed that all clubs registered in the League needed to serve a notice period of three years before quitting; a potentially fatal clause because clubs would have to resign not knowing if, by the time the breakaway eventually arrived, they would even be in it or not. Marcus Rashford dedicates his goal against Everton to his late cousin after breaking his eight-match drought Tyson Fury DOES care about becoming undisputed world champion when he takes on Oleksandr Usyk, his father...

David Barry Dein (born 7 September 1943) is the former vice-chairman of Arsenal Football Club and former vice-chairman of the Football Association; Dein currently spends much of his free time touring schools and prisons as a public speaker. He was also the President of the G-14 group of European football clubs between October 2006 and May 2007 and has sat on various committees within FIFA and UEFA including UEFA's Club Competition Committee and Executive Committee. In August 2007 he sold his shares in Arsenal F.C. to London-based, Russian-owned business company Red and White Holdings. He was also the International President of England's failed 2018 World Cup bid. Contents Dein describes the encounter as “probably a missed opportunity”. Held at the FA’s Lancaster Gate offices, it was conducted by the FA’s chairman, Sir Bert Millichip, later to be dubbed by Brian Glanville as Bert the Inert. His counterparts were a gaggle of football chairmen desperate to take control of their own destiny. The agenda soon turned to the reduction to 18 clubs. Some of the smaller teams, worried about being excluded, wanted to know if this was mandatory. Sir Bert shrugged his shoulders and said: “It’s your league, you decide.”

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Fifteen years on from the day that David Dein was forced off the Arsenal board and out the club one Wednesday evening in April 2007 still feels like a turning point in what was arguably the greatest era at one of English football’s biggest clubs, and at last he is telling his side of the story. Still, plans for the competition, now known as the Premier League (the title having been adjudged less confrontational than the original “Super League”) pushed relentlessly onwards. With more and more clubs interested, a meeting was convened with the FA to discuss the fine print. It was to be a fateful meeting. I felt Marcus needed confidence': Man United capatin Bruno Fernandes explains why he handed over penalty duty to Rashford before out-of-form star fired Red Devils 2-0 up at Everton

CRAIG HOPE: Kylian Mbappe endured a frustrating evening against Kieran Trippier and Co... but he held his... Dein's dual role as director of Arsenal and as a senior member of the Football Association's executive led to accusations of conflicts of interest. Cristiano Ronaldo sportingly tells referee to OVERTURN decision to award him a penalty in AFC Champions League game... despite Al-Nassr drawing 0-0 Ill, thin and broken, ex-England footballer Kieron Dyer, 44, was dying with a rare liver disease just 11 weeks ago. Now, he speaks for the first time Dein also helped obtain Arsenal's entry into the G-14 group of major European football clubs in 2002, and became President of the G-14 in October 2006. A keen promoter of women's football, he was also President of Arsenal Ladies Football Club, the most successful English women's football team, while Arsenal vice-chairman.Fans joke Everton star Dele Alli should be 'arrested' after footage of PINK summer haircut is revealed online, with one keen on seeing Sean Dyche's reaction I know the players aren't happy. I know Thierry Henry's not happy. We're talking about a man [David Dein] who goes into the dressing room after every single game, shakes every player by the hand and who knows all the youth team players." Lazio 2-0 Celtic: Brendan Rodgers' men left to rue missed chances after they crash out of Europe... with sub...

I was a fan on the board. I could never have agreed to a project like the Super League. If I was there when that happened, I’d have resigned. They didn’t read the tea leaves. A closed shop? Nobody has a divine right. Some of these owners think they’re too big for the rest of the league. They’re deluded.’ Man City vs RB Leipzig - Champions League: Guardiola's side take the lead thanks to Alvarez, who built on Phil Foden and Erling Haaland's efforts Micah Richards turns heads with VERY bold white suit for CBS' Champions League roadshow in Miami... but Kate Abdo still finds time to poke fun at ex-Man City star in her hilarious intro

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Man City unveil tribute to club legends Colin Bell, Francis Lee and Mike Summerbee... with bronze statue hailed as 'truly special' for the players and the families It was Dein’s search for a billionaire that first took him to Khaldoon Al-Mubarak, who fronted Sheikh Mansour’s Abu Dhabi Manchester City takeover. They met through Bernie Ecclestone whose daughter Tamara was then dating Dein’s younger son Gavin. “We had some good chemistry there [with Khaldoon] and I felt he could be a good owner for the club. In the end the timing wasn’t right and then a year or two later he bought Manchester City.”