Media executive Stephen Allan is a left-field contender to become the new FA chairman if the governing body opt for an external appointment to replace Greg Clarke, which appears to be their most likely course of action.
Sportsmail can reveal the former chairman and chief executive of MediaCom, one of the United States’ largest cable TV networks, reached the final two candidates to become Premier League chief executive last year before the top flight appointed David Pemsel, who never took up the role due to media revelations about his private life.
Allan left MediaCom after 12 years as global chief executive last summer, ending a 38-year stint at the company, and would welcome a new challenge to go alongside his work for charity Rays of Sunshine, a project he founded that gives life-enhancing experiences to terminally ill children.