Greg Dyke’s reform plans are a historic chance for change at the Football Association but self-interest is likely to see the status quo maintainedSend in the blazer-clad clowns. Don’t bother,they’re (still) here. Greg Dyke, the outgoing Football Association chairman, and has been telling everyone who will listen what a farce it will be whether corruption and crisis-hit Fifa passes crucial governance reforms before his own organisation does. Yet when considering the chances of the turkeys on the FA council voting for Christmas and agreeing a slate of eminently sensible changes,it is tempting to wheel out the old line that Dyke has two hopes – Bob Hope and no hope. And Bob Hope’s dead.
At a crucial meeting at Wembley on Wednesday the council will discuss reform proposals do forward by Dyke and approved by a majority of the FA board. Perhaps belatedly, the chairman has hit upon the fundamental truth that one of the biggest blocks to making progress down the years on a string of principal issues – aside from an often dysfunctional relationship with the Premier League that finally shows signs of being placed on a more sensible footing – is the FA’s own structure and processes.
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Source: theguardian.com