“If one really looks at the details, the Premier League control everything they need to within the FA and the professional game”
Alamy | “The FA keep coming up with taglines like “football for all”, they have diversity and inclusion as a central tenet of their strategy. But when you dig down after all the brochures and PR, they have no baseline data, so they don't even know how many black coaches they have," says Nigel Fletcher, the co-chair of the People’s Football Association.
With Tracey Crouch’s fan-led review due within days, English football could face its most fundamental changes in decades.
Ex-FIFA staffer, Nigel Fletcher, co-chairs campaign group The People’s FA, which says that the FA needs to be dismantled and replaced with an open membership system and a fully elected board.
Fletcher argues that the FA is undermined by a structure that is not representative of the game’s public and bloated by committees, while the Premier League exert too much financial control.
A regulator should only be the first step he argues.
19 October 2021 - 3:12 PM
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