MPs will demand the FA set up a "Dick Pound-style inquiry" into the revelations disclosed in the London Telegraph’s "Football for Sale" investigation when they "grill" its new chair on Monday, according to Ben Rumsby of the TELEGRAPH. The Culture, Media & Sport select committee "is also ready to recommend the Government legislates to stamp out bungs from the game" if FA Chair Greg Clarke and outgoing FA Dir of Football Governance & Regulation Darren Bailey "ask it to do so when they appear before parliament." In an exclusive interview with the Telegraph, the acting chair of the select committee questioned whether the FA or Premier League had the "power and the inclination" to address a problem "that has been repeatedly exposed by media investigations." Conservative MP Damian Collins, a "long-standing campaigner against corruption in football who is hoping to be elected as the permanent head of the CMS committee on Wednesday," revealed he would call for the FA to "establish an inquiry" similar to that led by former World Anti-Doping Agency President Dick Pound, which last year "exposed state-sponsored doping in Russia." Collins pointed out "the full findings of the last such inquiry a decade ago were never made public." He said, "They should probably look at the model of Dick Pound’s independent commission, led by someone who is not part of the FA or Premier League and who will publish their report in full, along with their recommendations for reform" (TELEGRAPH, 10/15).
