37 Quotes by Brian Barwick

I was in Lisbon yesterday talking to Luiz Felipe Scolari as part of our ongoing process to recruit the next senior England national coach. That process continues apace.

We have been taking advice from experts and they still think it is on course to finish on time.

We've got the best part of six months in real terms - the first international after the World Cup is in August - but that will not be the way we play it. I hope the appointment won't be after the World Cup and there's no reason why it should be. We have the opportunity of appointing before the World Cup and the upside of that is they can watch the side they will inherit in August with a sense of semi-distant ownership, and it may well be an advantage.

We have the opportunity, if we want, to get the person in place hopefully before the finals.

We were speaking to Felipe as part of the process of recruiting the next coach and that process continues.

We are in discussions with FIFA on retrospective disciplinary action and we have raised diving as a priority area where video evidence could be used.

We are not prepared to compromise or take any risk on this.

We have contacted Mike this morning and will meet with him early next week. If he provides us with evidence we will investigate fully.

We are clearly giving some serious consideration to putting together a bid for the tournament.