FA deserves applause for tough act of replacing suits with tracksuits

The Football Association gets to take on the big challenges and all of the attendant obstacles. Like how to make a great England team when a humiliating 73 English players were in Premier League starting XIs at the weekend: a mere 33.2 per cent of the available slots. And how to encourage people to continue playing the game when local councils have been so starved of money by the Conservative government’s austerity measures that they cannot afford the upkeep of their pitches.