Gregory Allison Clarke was born on 27 October 1957 and is an English businessman and football administrator, who was chairman of The Football Association from 4 September 2016.
12 Facts About Greg Clarke
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Greg Clarke resigned on 10 November 2020 after making offensive comments while talking to MPs.
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Greg Clarke was elected as the Vice President of FIFA on 7 February 2019 and resigned from this role on 12 November.
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Greg Clarke is currently chairman of a number of private equity-owned businesses, including Eteach UK Ltd.
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Greg Clarke has served on the boards of BUPA in the UK and MTN in South Africa.
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Greg Clarke was chairman and a director of Leicester City.
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Greg Clarke was chairman of The Football League from March 2010 to June 2016.
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On 7 February 2019, Greg Clarke was elected as a FIFA Vice President for the UEFA region at the 43rd UEFA Congress in Rome.
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In October 2017, Greg Clarke announced a "fundamental" review of the FA after admitting it had "lost the trust of the public" following the Mark Sampson scandal.
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Greg Clarke was talking about the racist abuse of players by trolls to the DCMS select committee via video link when making these comments.
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Three years before, in front of the same parliamentary committee, Greg Clarke said the issue of institutional racism in football was "fluff".
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Greg Clarke had to apologise after being chastised by MPs and reminded that language matters and led to the FA being described as "shambolic" by a previous parliamentary enquiry.