Football: Fitzgerald Goes Back to Future with a Brand New Vision ; Chief Sports Writer Hyder Jawad On the Man Who Is Out to Change the Public Face of Villa

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Rarely has a significant appointment been so understated. It took just a handful of paragraphs on the official club website to reveal, last Sunday, that Richard FitzGerald will become Aston Villa's chief executive officer.

And therein lies the irony, for FitzGerald made his name by spending nearly two decades with IMG, one of the grandest marketing and media companies in the world. FitzGerald did not become eminent by downplaying good news.

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Football: Fitzgerald Goes Back to Future with a Brand New Vision ; Chief Sports Writer Hyder Jawad On the Man Who Is Out to Change the Public Face of Villa

He takes over at Villa Park on January 1 and will be joined by Robin Russell, the chief financial officer, who spent 12 years in a similar position with the MBNA credit-card company. Blink and you might have missed it all. But, then, these days it is never wise to blink at Vill...

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