Percy Sonn, who while chairman of the International Cricket Council, will be laid to rest in South Africa this weekend.
All week cricket's great and good have been flying into the country for his funeral but ,even as they do so, they are busy discussing who will succeed Sonn.
Various names have been canvassed, including Sonn's predecessor of Pakistan and from New Zealand.
Terry Venables, assistant to England coach Steve McClaren, has issued legal proceedings against The Sun, a move made more intriguing because Venables is a columnist for the News of the World.
Venables alleges that in an article written on October 14 2006, Karren Brady, the managing director of Birmingham City, libelled him in her column.
The first person I met as I walked out of customs into the main arrival hall at Athens airport was a Liverpool supporter carrying a cardboard placard saying: "Want a ticket, will pay any price".
As the hours have ticked down towards Wednesday night's Champions League final, I have seen many more such requests from Liverpool fans in the squares of Athens.
For every banner proclaiming the glory of Liverpool Football Club there are at least 100 seeking tickets -
They even besieged the - as I waited to interview George Gillett I lost count of the fans who came up to him asking for tickets.
Finals are rarely great matches, although Wednesday night's was one of the better ones.
It had promised to be very good until the sending off of Moises Hurtado for a caused Espanyol to play for penalties. They discovered that doing so for nearly an hour is not easy.
It was the most blatant example of such tactics since . It seemed they had failed where Bucharest succeeded when Frederic Kanoute gave Seville the lead in extra-time, but somehow Espanyol equalised and took the game to the
What made this final memorable was that it lived up to the purpose of these competitions - bringing Europe together through football. The , after all, is the foster child of the .
Sometime in the next few weeks West Ham will be holding talks with Carlos Tevez about his contract. It may lead to Tevez moving on. The talks will also involve his advisors and this will mean talking to Kia Joorabchian, of MSI.
This is the same company which owned the exclusive economic rights to Tevez, they held the contract that was torn up by West Ham in order to make sure Tevez continued to play for the club, a decision crucial to West Ham saving themselves. And a decision which is now , including Sheffield United who went down instead of West Ham.
Confused? You are not alone.
The Tevez affair is well on its way to being a classic case of a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, as Winston Churchill once described Russia.
The decision by the Premier League has attracted a great deal of controversy – and I understand the commission had a long discussion on whether or not to apply such a penalty.
has largely been about whether it was fair not to deduct points in the context of the fight against relegation – but I can reveal that the commission was also concerned about the potential effect of any decision on the top of the league.
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