Former Manchester City chairman David Bernstein has been nominated to take over from Lord Triesman as the new chairman of the Football Association. As you may remember, David spent nine years on our board of directors, five of which as chairman.
He was born in St Helens, Lancashire in 1943 and replaced Francis Lee at City in 1998 and saw us drop to the depths of Division Two before returning to Premiership. During his time at City he also who led the negotiations which saw us secure the lease for our Eastlands stadium. He left Manchester City and was replaced by John Wardle following a boardroom dispute over the transfer of Robbie Fowler.
Bernstein became chairman of Wembley Stadium in 2008 and sat on the boards of a number of public companies including French Connection, overseeing the FCUK marketing campaign. He is also the president of the National Association of Disabled Supporters.
Now he has been nominated as the new chairman of the FA. The FA Council will be asked to endorse the appointment on Jan 25th 2011.
When asked, Mr Bernstein said, ’I am honoured to be asked to take on the role as chairman of the FA’ and added ‘It is a tremendous challenge but I look forward to working with the board, the staff at the FA and everyone in football from local playing fields to Wembley and the International stage.’
It certainly is a positive appointment for the FA who have had a terrible year with the failed World Cup bid and failed World Cup performance in South Africa.
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