He currently works as the team's performance director.

The English game's governing body is without a permanent chairman, chief executive or performance director.

By then he had also moved into circus management, becoming performance director before his retirement in 1991.

The squad has a new performance director in Alex Newton but will need to raise their game dramatically to challenge this summer.

A staff shake-up has also ensued, with the arrival of a new interim performance director.

He is currently the performance director of the Scottish Football Association.

His responsibility for the team has only recently been re-instated when he became the elite performance director during the world cup.

In 2004 the position of performance director became available at UK Athletics.

When, eventually, the team and officials emerged to face the music, even British Gymnastics' performance director was close to tears.

Tim Jones, the performance director, fought to mask his sorrow as he delivered the fateful words.