FA chief executive Martin Glenn has revealed that the organisation might have dealt with the Sam Allardyce situation differently if the association was only responsible for the national team.

However, the FA had no option but sack the national manager, as a failure to do so would have resulted in future problems for the organisation.

Allardyce was sacked by the FA in September after a sting operation from the Daily Telegraph caught him talking about circumnavigating third-party rules involving players.

"Had we only been responsible for the England team, we might have taken a different decision about Sam," said Glenn, who was a part of the decision-making process.

"If we were in a club situation, you might say 'well, the club is more important, it'll be fine and we'll get over it'.

"But the issue we had with Sam was that in implying he could help people circumvent the rules, because we are in charge of running the game and enforcing the rules of the game and, if you like, the law maker and law enforcer, it would have impaired our ability to do that.

"In any 50-50 call we might have to make with a club or a player in the future, we'd then have that thrown back at us."

Glenn insisted that the FA took a right decision in the end: "Yes. I think it was a tough decision but we were decisive and we didn't kind of kick it into the long grass and have a three-month inquiry.

"It was pretty clear and we took the decision on the basis of the things I've just outlined. It was right for the interests of football."