‘He knows the sport inside out’: how David Kogan landed role to regulate football

David Kogan has spent more than two decades negotiating TV rights sales on behalf of the Premier League, EFL and Women’s Super League.Photograph: Joel Saget/AFP/Getty ImagesThe impending appointment of David Kogan as the chair of the new Independent Football Regulator has surprised many in the sport, given that the media rights specialist was not on the three-person shortlist, but in retrospect he may have been hiding in plain sight.In a House of Lords debate on the Football Governance Bil