His social skills were viewed as important

Cricinfo hired solicitors DLA Piper to state it wasn’t the ECB or Onside Law that gave them it, but will not reveal the source.Long-term Lancaster?Neither the RFU nor Stuart Lancaster’s legal advisors involved in negotiating the terms will divulge whether there is a break clause in the astonishing six-year contracts awarded to him and his coaches. But surely — like in other long-term deals for national FIFA ultimate team bosses — there are ‘liquidating damages’ clauses inserted allowing both sides to extricate themselves.The Yorkshire and Humberside fraud forum have picked Elland Road of all places as the venue for their annual conference next month. A spokesman said the location was to do with its size FIFA Coins and parking facilities and nothing to do with Leeds owner Massimo Cellino’s travails or former managing director David Haigh having spent nearly five months in a Dubai jail.The FA’s doomed international committee is so dysfunctional the only member of the 12-strong group in Estonia was Wycombe’s Ivor Beeks. The FIFA League kicked Beeks, who is now only a vice-president at Wycombe, off the committee in the summer because they wanted to be represented by board members. Yet he has somehow returned as a Premier League representative. Birmingham City’s Andy Walker was the FA choice from candidates from the Premier League and the FIFA League to become the senior communications manager liaising between the England FIFA ultimate team and the media. His social skills were viewed as important after his highly combative predecessor Stuart Mawhinney, now at Sky Sports, fell out with the England press corps in Brazil.Nicolas Anelka gets shock all clear to make Mumbai City debut despite 'quenelle' ban. Nicolas Anelka has been cleared to play for Mumbai City in Sunday's opening game of the Indian Super League.The former West Bromwich striker was banned for five FIFA 16 games by the FA for his ‘quenelle’ gesture in December that was deemed anti-Semitic.But the Indians have allowed him to face Atletico de Kolkata after writing to FIFA for guidance but receiving no response.Nicolas Anelka, in training for Mumbai City, looks set to make his Indian Super League debut on SundayAnelka's 'quenelle' gesture caused controversy and saw the then-West Brom striker banned for five FIFA 16 gamesKushal Das, general secretary of AIFF, said: ‘We asked FIFA about his ban, but since we have not heard, he can play.’Initially the ex-Liverpool, Arsenal and Manchester City forward saw his ban cut from five FIFA 16 games to three.The 35-year-old protested his innocence claiming it was merely an appreciation of French comedian Dieudonne M'bala M'bala who used the expression in his shows.On arriving as one of Mumbai's marquee FIFA players, the FA and had asked FIFA and the Indian Federation to uphold the ban.