Minister urges FA to move on corruption

THE FA has been urged to take immediate action to stamp corruption out of the game by setting up a semi-autonomous body to police both agents and clubs’ financial affairs.

The call came from Sports Minister Richard Caborn on the day England boss Sven-Goran Eriksson met the FA's chief executive Brian Barwick and fronted the organisation's Compliance Unit to explain allegations of corruption at the highest level.

Eriksson and his agent Athole Still allegedly revealed to a News of the World undercover reporter posing as a sheikh that three top level managers were guilty of taking illegal payments.