Why making changes in football changes can be tricky

Michel D'Hooghe, the long standing FIFA executive member, should have every reason to feel happy. The man who chaired the Belgian football federation for many years, and led the country's joint bid with the Netherlands for the 2018 World Cup, will travel to Brazil confident that this is the best Belgium side for more than a quarter of a century. "We have," he tells me "the best generation after the generation of 86," the one whose deeds in Mexico are still talked about in his country. And he readily thanks the Premier League for giving some of his country's top players, the likes of Eden Hazard, Jan Vertoghen, Mousa Dembélé, a chance to parade their skills. Yet as our conversation develops it emerges that D'Hooghe is actually very angry and his anger is directed at another famous British institution.