David Davies (football administrator)

David Davies OBE (born 1948) is a British broadcaster and consultant, formerly the executive director of the Football Association. He is a regular contributor to BBC News programmes and other networks.

Since leaving The FA, he has worked as a consultant to football organisations in various countries. Today he is a consultant to the Soccerex international football conferences organisation.

Davies began his journalistic career briefly in Belfast before joining BBC Wales as a reporter in 1971. He was a BBC news trainee alongside Brian Hanrahan before joining BBC TV in Manchester in 1973. From there he worked on some of the corporation's biggest shows including Nationwide, Newsnight, Songs of Praise and Children in Need.

From 1983 he presented the BBC News and the Today radio programme on Radio 4. He was a political correspondent, 1983-1986, and education correspondent, 1986-1989.

From 1989-1994, he presented BBC Midlands Today and served as a correspondent and occasional presenter of the BBC’s biggest sports programmes, Match of the Day and Grandstand. It was during this period one Saturday night that he is said to have coined the phrase on the Saturday night news preceding Match of the Day “If you don’t want to know the score, look away now.”

He covered every general election and local election night broadcast between 1974 and 1994, as well as every World Cup and European Football Championship from 1986 to 1994.

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