Caborn: FA “not fit for purpose” 05/07/2010 |
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Former sports minister Richard Caborn has blasted the English Football Association as “not fit for purpose”.
The FA has been hit by management upheaval and the poor performance of the England team at the World Cup.
And Caborn, who was sports minister for six years, told the BBC: "Is the FA fit for purpose? No, I don't think it is.
"I believe the governance of the game is not prepared to stand up to its responsibilities. The FA need to say we have to look at ourselves very seriously and we need to modernise ourselves.
"In Germany in 2000, there was a repositioning of the governance of German football. I think that has been to the benefit of German football, and we are seeing some of those results at the current World Cup."
Caborn even suggested that the time had come for English football's ruling body to "franchise out" the running of the FA Cup and Wembley, leaving the FA to concentrate on governing the sport.
"Should a governing body be running that as well as governing the sport?" he said. "What is absolutely clear is they are the assets of football and those assets should be put back into the FA."
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