The Spanish government has said that the national grid operator and private power generation companies were to blame for an energy blackout that caused widespread chaos in Spain and Portugal earlier this year. Shortly after midday on 28 April, both countries were disconnected from the European electricity grid for several hours. Businesses, schools, universities, government...
In April, Nandy said the 68-year-old sports media rights executive was the “outstanding candidate” to fill the position, despite not being on the original three-person shortlist. She has now removed herself from the final decision, delegating responsibility to the Sports Minister. Last month, Kogan told MPs on the Culture, Media and Sport Committee (CMS) during...
Neville was speaking to BBC Sport from Salford City’s Moor Lane ground a day after the League Two outfit announced a new ownership structure that will see only the 50-year-old and long-time friend David Beckham remain as minority shareholders from the famed ‘Class of 92’ who bought the club in 2014. Salford announced themselves with...
A former BBC journalist and a director of the Women’s Sports Group, Kogan helped negotiate a rights deal for the Women’s Super League and Women’s Championship last year. He was the Premier League’s media rights advisor from 1998 to 2015. He also has close links to the Labour party, having written two books about them,...
Chas Geiger Politics reporter Getty Images Claims an independent football regulator could stifle the growth of the Premier League and foreign investment in it are “complete nonsense”, English Football League (EFL) chairman Rick Parry has told the BBC. Under a change to a government bill going through Parliament, the proposed regulator will have a duty...