They say being manager of the England football team is the impossible job, but David Higgins might disagree - he's faced a fair few tough gigs but says one stands out as the toughest. Still probably best known as being the chief executive of the Olympic Delivery Authority for the 2012 Games in London, the man has a CV peppered with high-profile appointments. Chief executive of Lendlease, boss of English Partnerships, and most recently chair of HS2. Between making sure the Olympic venues were built on time and his stint at HS2, Higgins was chief executive of Network Rail for three years. "The hardest job I've ever done in my life," he tells my hack. "It's an unbelievably difficult network to run." I don't think he misses it.
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