FA is said to be culturally incapable of reform due to its rather non-diverse personnel. So who better to demand reform than the culture, media and sport committee, made up of 10 middle-aged white men and one woman
At times, it feels as if the sole dynamic in British public life is one body accusing another body of being in existential crisis, in order to divert attention from its own existential crisis. And yes, of course that includes newspapers.
Today, however, our business is governance. The culture, media and sport committee is composed of 10 middle-aged white men, one woman and not a single BAME representative. So who better to demand reform of the Football Association? Back in December, you may recall, five elderly white men who used to be big at the FA wrote to parliament to explain that the FA was culturally incapable of reform because of elderly white men. If that move rang the odd alarm bell for you, you may well be pushed into peals of sarcastic laughter by the next stage of this caper.
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