Eccles Resigns As FA Comms Director
Julian Eccles, the marketing and communications director of the Football Association, has resigned from his post after little more than a year in the role.
Eccles was hired just over a year ago by former FA chief executive Ian Watmore after spells at both Ofcom and BSkyB.
FA general secretary Alex Horne said in a statement: ‘Julian Eccles has resigned from his post as director of marketing and communications at the FA with immediate effect.
‘I would like to thank Julian for his contribution to the FA and wish him well for the future. He has been very professional throughout his time here and I am grateful to him for introducing a number of valuable initiatives and ideas to the organisation.
‘Details of how the FA will manage the functions within communications, marketing and public affairs will be communicated in due course. The FA will not be making any further comment at this time.’
It has been a turbulent period at the FA, starting with Watmore’s resignation in March last year. Lord Triesman resigned as FA and England 2018 chairman exactly one year ago yesterday after a newspaper published a transcript of a conversation where he repeated gossip about rival World Cup bids.
That was followed by the failure of England’s 2018 World Cup bid, the appointment of a new chairman in David Bernstein after acting chairman Roger Burden ruled himself out, then the announcement of a Parliamentary inquiry into football governance.
