FA can’t change FIFA — Bernstein

FA chairman David Bernstein has warned his organisation only has limited power in FIFA and cannot be expected to bring about sweeping changes at football’s governing body.

FIFA is in the spotlight after former FA and England 2018 bid chairman David Triesman this week alleged there had been “improper and unethical” behaviour by four FIFA members. It also emerged that two more FIFA members, Issa Hayatou and Jacques Anouma, were alleged to have been paid to vote for Qatar for the 2022 World Cup.

Allied to the suspensions of Amos Adamu and Reynald Temarii last year, no fewer than eight FIFA ExCo members — one third of the total of 24 — have either been alleged to have been, or already found, guilty of impropriety in relation to the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bids.