Parliamentary report demands changes from English football

It's a sport and nothing to do with polictics.

The Select Committee into phone hacking was laughable, and only "bettered" by the one looking at the Olympics and the G4S fiasco.

One of these days a witness will take the opportunity to point out, "live", how ill-informed and badly advised these grand standers are. They should remember that Parliamentary Privilege only extends to the chamber, and not to the committee rooms.

"There is a worrying trend as financial interests take hold that the game is becoming remote from the communities from which the clubs originated" (Clive Efford MP, Shadow Minister for Sport) You're not wrong, Clive, you're not wrong.

Or maybe this is your plan - force all of the current pros overseas, so you get to make a comeback?!?

When vested interests such as sponsors and big business has the FA in its thrall, we as supporters can only stand and watch as these interests dictate the way the game is run, usually without regard to supporters wishes, in that respect parliamentary scrutiny is justified.

Football is not above politics or the law and neither should it be, we don't want politicians to dictate how the game is run either, such as happened in the blanket ban on English clubs competing in Europe in the mid-1980s, when football became a political football.

There is little doubt until a major club succumbs to the financial pressures and goes completely bust, the game will continue along the self destructive path it has been on for the past decade.

When the king of wheeler dealers Harry Redknapp is complaining about the 'gang-war' environment of football agents, - you know that the peripheral people with little interest in the game wield too much influence and extract far too much money out of the game for the benefit of nobody but themselves and their clients,

From this perspective Parliamentary scrutiny is welcome, however, it has very little chance of influencing the way the FA is run or how the FA controls the game.