Ex-chairman Says FA Changes ‘impossible’

Former Football Association chairman Lord Triesman has claimed that making the changes he wanted during his time in the role were made unattainable.

Triesman resigned last June after becoming the FA’s first independent chairman in January 2008 but appeared before a Parliamentary select committee yesterday, as part of a government investigation into the way English football is run.

The former chairman claimed: ‘Apart from onfield discipline, [the FA] has backed out of regulating completely’.

He also suggested that the relationship with between the FA and the Premier League was difficult: ‘They once described their relationship with us, the FA, to me as being in competition and their brand needed to dominate and that I think is how I see it’.