OFF THE PITCH INTERVIEW with Nigel Fletcher, Co-Chair, 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 the 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.


The full article is available here: “If one really looks at the details, the Premier League control everything they need to within the FA and the professional game” | Off The Pitch