For­mer Eng­land in­ter­na­tion­al and man­ag­er Kevin Kee­gan has made his feel­ings known on the res­ig­na­tion of for­mer FI­FA Vice Pres­i­dent Jack Warn­er. In an in­ter­view with the Guardian Un­lim­it­ed in Lon­don, Kee­gan, who vis­it­ed Trinidad on an in­vi­ta­tion from Warn­er in the past, said he re­calls do­ing coach­ing clin­ics with kids on the is­land. "What I know is that when I was Eng­land man­ag­er I went to Trinidad and To­ba­go, where Jack Warn­er was king of foot­ball, and he had clear­ly done a lot of good in pro­vid­ing train­ing fa­cil­i­ties and get­ting kids in­to the game. How he had got the mon­ey to do that I don't know," said Kee­gan, who was once ru­moured to be un­der con­sid­er­a­tion to take up the head coach po­si­tion for the T&T Se­nior Men's Team.

Kee­gan con­tin­ued: "What if Warn­er did that by cor­rupt­ly rais­ing funds? Every­body does things at that lev­el in foot­ball that are ques­tion­able. When I was Eng­land man­ag­er and we went to Trinidad and To­ba­go, we did train­ing with the kids-it wasn't per­haps on the same scale but it was clear­ly in­tend­ed to get votes. You could say that's quite bad. You could say we shouldn't have. But every­body did. "What amazes me more than any­thing is that Jack Warn­er leaves and they drop all the charges against him. On­ly foot­ball or­gan­i­sa­tions like Fi­fa and the FA could get away with that. Any oth­er or­gan­i­sa­tion would face a thor­ough­go­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tion from the out­side," added the for­mer New­cas­tle Unit­ed boss.

"Sure­ly the FA isn't sim­i­lar to Fi­fa? "To a cer­tain de­gree the FA is very sim­i­lar. On­ly a few votes de­cide who's on a com­mit­tee, and a hand­ful of top guys make the huge de­ci­sions that make or break the game. The per­son at the top de­fines the morals of an or­gan­i­sa­tion, of­ten not for the good. "You see that at foot­ball clubs all the time. So what's the an­swer to such plu­to­crat­i­cal­ly run foot­ball clubs di­vorced from their so­cial roots and his­toric fan­bas­es? In Barcelona they have 146,000 own­ers, and the best foot­ball team in the world. It's been tried in Eng­land by putting sup­port­ers on the board, but not enough," Kee­gan added.