FA must wait before Stevens names clubs

Football Association officials will today be told they will have to wait still longer before they will be given the identity of three clubs found by Lord Stevens’ inquiry to have breached transfer rules.

Investigators from Stevens’ firm Quest are still putting together the final details of the case against the three clubs.

A meeting between Quest managing director Nigel Layton and the FA’s compliance department today will centre instead on the names of eight agents who refused to help the inquiry.

It is the first meeting between the FA and Quest since Stevens, the former Metropolitan Police commissioner, last month published the findings of his inquiry into illegal payments.