David Bernstein: Our teams are well organised but we need creativity

David Bernstein cannot hide his regret that he is no longer chairman of the Football Association. We are meeting in a London hotel just as England are flying to Kiev for tonight’s World Cup qualifier with Ukraine and Bernstein says with real feeling: “It would have been nice to be with them. But you must ask the FA Council why I am not there.”

This is a pained reference to the FA Council refusing to amend their rules which force FA chairman to stand down when they reach 70.