In a rare joint statement, the AFL and NRL have announced their joint ‘Sports Executive of the Year Award’ goes to the Football Federation Australia’s (FFA) CEO David Gallop.
“No one man has done more to blunt the growth of soccer and cement the dominance of NRL and AFL in this country,” said ARL chairman John Grant.
“To be honest we don’t even have a joint ‘Sports Executive of the Year Award’, we just thought David deserved some recognition for what he’s done to soccer this year.
“I know a lot of it has been unintentional but that doesn’t change the fact that David has done more for the NRL since he left than when he was here.”
AFL Chairman Mike Fitzpatrick said Gallop’s efforts have been ‘simply outstanding’ and the ‘work of a true genius’.
“I’ve often thought that putting a sleeper agent over at the soccer would be a good idea but it seems someone beat me to it,” said Mr Fitzpatrick.
“David has really pulled off one of the truly great terrible years in sports administration, it’s right up there with my own work during the peak of the Essendon Saga.
“We can’t thank him enough for going to war with the fans like he has; a level we never got to, even when we started scheduling Collingwood/Carlton games at about midnight on a Sunday night in the depths of winter.”
A spokesperson for the FFA said the award was further recognition of how well the FFA was going under David Gallop’s leadership.
“We are also the only Australian sport that has taken the bold step of making our chair position hereditary. That sort of thing always works well.”
COMMENTS
Stej Bosnjak
Dec 06, 2015
Malthouse beat him for the sleeper agent award
Kate Chesterton
Dec 06, 2015
Hahaha so true U0001f602U0001f602
Zoe French
Dec 06, 2015
Jordan Mathews This is absolutely brilliant
hv8p8s
Dec 06, 2015
TitusOReily You've spelled executive wrong. It's D E F E C T I V E.
Andrew Johnston
Dec 06, 2015
This is great Titus!
Scott Cain
Dec 06, 2015
How does he have a job? Was a massive,clueless tool at the NRL.
Chris Dorn
Dec 06, 2015
Somebody needs to show this to the Northern Terrace or RBB.
Mark Jenkins
Dec 06, 2015
Brilliant - now lets just sit back and be lectured about 'the world game' and 'the fastest growing sport....'.
Who would have thought that banning people simply because of assault and fireworks charges would be so unpopular??
Peter Catton
Dec 06, 2015
In front of ...... Errrrr
His mum
Andrew Jones
Dec 06, 2015
Not sure if you're serious or trolling...
Chris Dorn
Dec 06, 2015
Either way I don't think he understands that the FFA's practices are in breach of The Privacy Act. Ie you must show a person all of the information that you have about them.
Alex Economos
Dec 06, 2015
George Vlassis haha check this one out
Sean Lyons
Dec 06, 2015
The nrl pull the old trojan horse caper. Classic espionage 101. Qld should send Choppy CLose to nsw to coach blues." Yeah we always used to drink a carton on match eve boys"
Steven Finocchiaro
Dec 06, 2015
just makes me sad
CraigMacleod00
Dec 06, 2015
TitusOReily lol #BOZO
Bernard O'Dwyer
Dec 06, 2015
A worthy winner Matt Pocock
MicallefPhilip
Dec 06, 2015
foraggio TitusOReily is this a real story or a gee-up?
scouse_roar
Dec 06, 2015
MicallefPhilip foraggio TitusOReily the fact it's hard to tell is a damning indictment of gallop and FFA
deformo96
Dec 06, 2015
TitusOReily just shows they don't know what they are doing
Andrew_Ivezic
Dec 06, 2015
TitusOReily That idiot actually makes former brisbanelions CEO Angus Johnson look competent...
#HOWMANYMORESPORTSCANHERUIN
Ugboot Shuffler
Dec 06, 2015
When HR recruitment fails.
digitalwoch
Dec 07, 2015
TitusOReily rumour has it Gallop is being head-hunted by the West Indian cricket board #WICB
Billious
Dec 07, 2015
That's the most comment Fitzpatrick has made in public since he became Chairperson of the league and is on a par with his phone call to Sydney Re Buddy's transfer for quantity of words, but sadly lis still lacking in quality of words chosen.