FA former chief rails against "tosspots who don't want change"
Friday 19 October 2018 08:27, UK
Former Football Association chairman Greg Dyke has hit out at members of the footballing body who opposed the sale of Wembley stadium.
Earlier in the week, Shahid Khan withdrew his £600m offer to purchase the national stadium, before a vote of the FA Council which was set for October 24.
Chief executive of the Football Association, Martin Glenn has insisted there was no plot to bring down any proposed sale, and was personally in favour of the move.
However, former chairman Dyke believes certain members within the current FA set-up simply do not want change.
"The trouble with the FA Council is that it is full of complete tosspots who don't want change," the 71-year-old told the Times.
"Selling Wembley was an attractive proposition but you have to be certain you can get that money into the right parts of the grassroots of the game.
"If you have people competing for the money, and then others like the EFL saying they want 25 per cent of it for their own clubs' projects, that starts to muddy the waters.
"You have to have sympathy with local government - they have been cut and cut, year on year. You can't even be sure they will pay match funding.
"That's why the Parklife scheme in Birmingham died, they had no money and couldn't pay their bit of match funding."
