http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/9390382.stm Isn't his all pi$$ and wind, because as soon as government interferes, in anyway at all, with the FA, we get slung out of UEFA (no champions league), FIFA (no internationals)?
TBH, given the way the game is run internationally, if it meant we got our house in order domestically, being kicked out of the corrupt, ridiculously oligarchical international bodies would be a good thing.