Lord Triesman obituary

Theguardian reports that David Triesman, Lord Triesman, has died aged 82. His wide-ranging public life was fuelled by a visionary idealism first displayed as a teenage schoolboy and sustained across sport, business and politics. He began his working life as an academic, spent nearly two decades as a trade union leader, ran the Labour party as general secretary for two years in the troubled run-up to the Iraq war from 200103, and later served as a government minister in the House of Lords and as chair of the Football Association from 2008 to 2010.

Neither of his most high-profile posts at the Labour party and the FA ended smoothly. His job at the top of football, which included chairmanship of England’s 2018 Fifa World Cup bid, came to an immediate end with his enforced resignation in 2010 when a newspaper sting secretly recorded him alleging bribery of referees by Spain and Russia.

United Kingdom, England