The English Football Association has been urged to lobby UEFA for a European boycott of the next World Cup, Russia 2018, -- unless football’s world governing body, FIFA, implements meaningful reform.
Former FA chairman, David Bernstein said it was time for drastic action against football's world governing body.
"England on its own cannot influence this. If we tried something like that, we'd be laughed at,” he said.
He says a World Cup will be weakened without Europe's top teams and that a boycott will have public backing.
"If I were at the FA now, I would do everything I could to encourage other nations within Uefa - and there are some who would definitely be on side, others may be not - to take this line.
"At some stage, you have to walk the walk, stop talking and do something" he said.
Mr Bernstein said he also wanted FIFA President, Sepp Blatter, to step down but described him as "formidable, very shrewd, very smart", conceding it would "not be easy" to bring his reign to an end.
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