Wigan Athletic chairman Dave Whelan says the Premier League should take control of the England team.

Whelan thinks the structure of the FA -with numerous committees attended by up to 70 people - is damaging the sport in this country.

"Let the FA concentrate on running amateur football - the Football League and the Premier League must run the professional game," he said. "The sooner the Premier League run the England team the better."

Ian Watmore's exit means the FA are searching for their seventh chief executive in 11 years.

Whelan told the BBC: "It's an impossible task and I am not surprised that it's very difficult to find anybody who can run the FA properly.

"You are dealing with the biggest professional side of football, which is the England football team and you are dealing with people playing amateur football all over England. It's very difficult to combine those together.

"The game has moved from being a purely amateur game and now it's professional. It's the biggest game in the world, we have the best and the biggest league in the world and you cannot expect the FA to get involved with something like the Premier League."