IFR Chair Appointment Delayed

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The appointment of the inaugural chair of English football's new watchdog has been thrown into fresh uncertainty.

Whitehall officials have resumed contact with applicants who did not make it onto a final shortlist.

The preferred candidate to chair the Independent Football Regulator (IFR) is now "unlikely" to be drawn from a group of three contenders interviewed months ago .

The establishment of the regulator has triggered deep unrest in English football.

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