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Strong female lead

With a woman as general secretary for almost a decade, Norway�s FA has long embraced a forward-thinking outlook seemingly at odds with SFA policy, writes Alan Campbell

WHEN Gordon Smith eventually departs as the SFA chief executive, can anybody envisage his replacement being a woman? The lineage of bowler-hatted secretaries at Park Gardens to sharp-suited chief executives at Hampden has always assumed that only a man can do the job.