Home And Away | Wisdom is wasted on football’s elderly white men
It is increasingly clear that current leaders are collectively unrepresentative of English society
The only positive thing about inept elderly white men running organisations – and thus ruining everything – is that it takes angry elderly white men to identify the problem.
Take the five former English Football Association bigwigs, all angry elderly white men – AEWM for short – who have written to the UK government demanding immediate intervention to overhaul the sport’s dysfunctional governing body, run by inept elderly white men, aka IEWM.
Three former FA chairmen – Lord Triesman, David Bernstein and Greg Dyke – plus two ex-chief executives, David Davies and Alex Horne, penned the letter calling on lawmakers to pass legislation to “reform and modernise” the FA.
In their missive, they claimed the 25 IEWM sitting at the FA’s top table meddle far too much and block everything – including England’s chances of ever winning a major tournament again.
The attack came as the FA grapples, with all the deftness of an elderly white man with acute arthritis peeling an orange with a soup spoon while strapped into a roller coaster, its biggest crisis in its 153-year history.
