Greg Dyke seems to forget his role in the Premier League's formation | David Conn

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The FA chairman made a bold start in his new job, but was a little disingenuous when it came to discussing his past

Greg Dyke has headed large organisations, albeit in the media, for almost 30 years and had bust-ups at the highest level, so he knew what he was doing when saying the unsayable about the Premier League. He was playing the boy in the crowd gathered to view the emperor's new clothes, speaking the glaring truth the rest has been cowed into ignoring.

The Premier League has for years simply refused to accept any responsibility for the England team's relatively poor state, despite its clubs giving so few of their own, trained, young England-qualified players any first-team breaks. The league's combative chief executive, Richard Scudamore, has held the line that, somehow, the dwindling number of England-qualified players in his clubs' first teams makes no difference to the England team.

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