Chairman Greg Dyke wants to develop the English football. To achieve such a goal, the forming of an FA commission entitled to promote the young English talents became neccessary.

He therefore named eight men to be members of the Commission. He confirmed on Wednesday that Glenn Hoddle would be on the Commission, which will examine ways of increasing the numbers of young English players playing at the top level, and ultimately improving the prospects of the national team.

“There’s myself, obviously, there’s Roger Burden who is the deputy chairman of the FA, Howard Wilkinson coming from the League Managers Association, Ritchie Humphreys from the PFA, Greg Clarke from the Football League, Glenn Hoddle, Dario Gradi who has this amazing record of producing young kids, and Danny Mills, a recently retired player who recently wrote a paper on what we should do,” Dyke said.

“But we’re still talking to one or two other people and we expect to have a commission of about 10.

“We would hope to report back at the end of March, we’ve started on a lot of the research we need to do. It’s quite a big job if you’re going to look at what’s happening in other countries as well. I don’t believe in setting things ups to go on for years, boredom gets to everybody in the end, and I think six months is about right.

“If we can finish it by the end of March, well I hope we come up with a set of proposals that people will buy into, to give English kids a chance of playing at the top level.”