Greg Dyke has launched a scathing attack on the board members of the Football Association, calling them “old and white” and saying he wants those in charge to be a representation of the wider population.

Speaking at a supporters summit at Wembley on Saturday, the FA chairman warned that football’s governing body is losing touch with the general public and needs a reform sooner rather than later.

“If you look at who’s supporting, who’s playing and then you look at the FA Council — it doesn’t represent them,” said the 67-year-old. “It’s still overwhelmingly male, overwhelmingly white, in a world that isn’t overwhelmingly male and white, and somehow that has to be changed. 

“We have to try and change it but we’re not alone, supporters have got to try and change it as well.”

As it currently stands the FA board only has one representative for supporters, Dr Malcolm Clarke who is the chairman of the Football Supporters’ Federation while Heather Rabbatts is the only woman.

“We’ve got to look at how we involve the population of 21st-century England and the mix it’s got. If we just carry on like this — old, white males — we’re going to be increasingly irrelevant.”

But Dyke could not let the opportunity to plug his B league idea pass, warning those at the summit that unless his ludicrous idea comes into play as soon as possible, the national team will continue to suffer and we can expect a similar result in Russia 2018 as we saw in Brazil a few weeks ago.

“You wait for four years’ time, if we don’t do something about it,” Dyke said in a reference to England’s poor showing at the World Cup when they were knocked out in the group stages.