Scottish Rugby Union
Anderton is currently the Chief Executive Offiver of Al Jazira Club in Abu Dhabi. He was appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of the Scottish Rugby Union in February 2004, after several years of successful marketing within the SRU.
His nickname is "Firework Phil", because he provided lavish firework displays and entertainment before rugby games at Murrayfield, the home of the Scottish Rugby Union. These were criticised by Sir Clive Woodward as a distraction, and by Matt Dawson as a waste of the SRU's money, after the Calcutta Cup game in Edinburgh in 2004, but Anderton was unrepentant on both counts.
Anderton resigned as CEO in January 2005 after David Mackay (Chairman of the SRU) was forced to resign by the SRU General Committee.
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