Bevington passed over for Man City job

Adrian Bevington, the FA's charmless director of communications, has been turned down for the same role at moneybags Manchester City.

The job instead went to Vicky Kloss, who served under former director Paul Tyrell.

Bevington has already enjoyed a highly fortuitous rise up the ladder at the FA.

He joined as a junior member of their press office after having been a junior member of Middlesbrough's press team. Resignations then helped him to climb to his current role, in which he has had rather mixed fortunes.

I doubt whether Sven-Goran Eriksson or Steve McClaren would say he handled their press very well. He's hardly proactive or good at building relationships with the press, which are crucial to success in such a role.

Dan Johnson, the charming, proactive and intelligent head of communications at the Premier League could certainly teach him a thing or two.