Should Crozier have gone? And who should replace him?

Hmmm...now let me think. What does Ken Bates know about winning? Not a whole lot, as memory serves me. Maybe he should be the one interested in how to shake things up, not just throw money at foreign imports.

English football is better because of the influx of skilled players, and our international team is better because of a certain Swede.
James Sweeney, ex-pat in Canada

I am very sad. It can't be a coincidence that many good things have happened since Adam Crozier joined the FA.
Ali, Iran

Adam has done so much for the game's profile in the British Isles. As much as probably Alex Ferguson has done for the game in Europe also. Anyone with the grit and courage to appoint the best coach available, English or not, has to be given a slap on the back.

Remember the 5-1 in Munich? Remember that the last time we played at Wembley we were not even close to going to Japan and Korea. Crozier has been backed into a corner by the people that during those times were singing his praises. Replacing him will be a hard task.
Paul, england

Crozier was doing a good job with the FA. We need someone like him to drag football into the 21st Century. The FA and most club chairman do not like to relinquish the perceived power they think they have and they are ruining the game.

So many clubs are in serious debt because of their failures to run a business properly one wonders how they manage to survive. Do they expect us fans to pick up the tab?
Bob Evans, UK

Can't the fans do something about this? Sven will be next if something isn't done. Get Bates out of football, and that idiot Thompson.
Andy, Taiwan

I am sorry to see Adam Crozier go, he has made England and the FA. Perhaps competence is something that the men who forced him out need to stamp out, just in case fans see them for what they are.

Soccer should be about the millions that play, and the fans. When a few clubs dominate, well, we have only have to look to Scotland to see how corrosive that is.
Robbie, England

How dare Ken Bates call anyone autocratic!! Pot calling the kettle black, or what?
Joe Maguire, UK

I feel strongly, as most people who have posted notes here, that Crozier should not have been effectively forced to resign.

If the chairmen of the Premier League continue to pillage the rest of 'our' football, we will soon have one league of prima donna teams all full of foreign players which will be incredibly dull and a massive turn off! They, 'the chairmen', should be ashamed - and let's hope Chelsea go bust into the bargain!!
Tyson, England

Good for Crozier! He did a marvellous job. The FA is much better for his efforts, and his successor will be hard pressed to fill his shoes.

Of course, his successor will be a hand picked patsy by the heads of the EPL. Why don't they just go ahead and change the name of the FA Cup to the EPL Cup, and take the three lions off of the English kits in favour of a Barclaycard logo.

The powers that be in the EPL may have won this power battle with Crozier, but he won the war, for deciding to not play the game.
Pete Geoghegan, USA

Crozier's greatest gift to football was to show how effectively brilliant PR can disguise reality. This is a man who paid himself �600,000 per annum.

He allowed Davis to continue as a director of the FA after he had ghost-written Glen Hoddle's autobiography, the publication of which lead to the English manger resigning, and best of all, promoted a national stadium that the fans did not want, the club chairmen did not want, and whose cost can only be justified by taking away 20,000 seats from real fans and giving them to the corporates.
Eddie Price, England

No, Crozier was not right to resign, he was pushed out by a man who has done nothing to the game but cause harm - Ken Bates. In Crozier, football had a man who could take the game forward.

He is the only reason that Sven is in charge of England and therefore can take a lot of the credit for the strides that England have taken forward. There should be a UN resolution banning Ken Bates from even thinking about football, never mind running the game!! Madness.
Stuart Lang, UK

Adam Crozier has modernised the English FA into a far more able body and has helped to turn it into a far more business minded fashion. He has given the English game a new lease of life. This has helped English football gain more financial wealth and he can be pleased with the job he has done.

I would like to see him take up a role in Scotland with the SFA and help give football up here a boost as well.
Philip Wong, Scotland

The men in grey suits have done it again. Perhaps the 55 old farts that ran English rugby have now taken over the FA. Crozier brought the FA into the 21st Century, and with it a multi million pond profit which has enabled the Wembley Stadium project to remain viable.

He should have been given a pay rise instead of being backed into an untenable position.
Peter Charlish, England

The men in the shadows of the FA are to football what the Spanish Inquisition was to religious tolerance. Crozier has done a terific job....what is the real story behind this decision?
David Hunt, England

As a grass roots football administrator of 25 years experience, I can safely say this is a very sad day in the history of the beautiful game. Adam was a thorough profesional - forward thinking, enterprising and never frightened of the task ahead of him.

I can't help but feel that the only people who will disagree with my view are those who worship their blazer more than the game they are supposed to represent.
Chris Barcroft, Stalybridge, England

If the English FA don't want him, please can Adam Crozier come up here and sort the SFA out?
Bill Urquhart, Scotland

Not a good day for the majority of clubs in the country. If Ken Bates and his cronies get control the true football fan might as well take up darts.
Brian, England

Typical of the Premier League chairmen and English football. Any time they see change resulting in progress, they regress and dwell upon the past. Wake up and go forward.
Oscar, USA

A brilliant mind and a wonderful positive force for change in the English game has been swept aside by those wanting to line their own pockets to the detriment of all football fans!
A.K, England

After dragging the FA into the 21st century those blinkered dinosaurs return. Once again the game is dragged down into the gutter.
Ed Carter, UK

Ken Bates 1, everyone else 0. God help us.
Mark Howarth, UK

A great day for Scottish football. We can rejoice watching it all go downhill now for Bates and his mates!

Go north young man, give Bertie a helping hand and put some value back into the true home of football.
L MacDonald, Germany

Typical of the people in charge and of this country all over.
Warren Kingston, England

He deserves to go. Another individual who thinks they are bigger than the environment they represent and believes they are invincible. The Team England deal was an insult to the Premier League clubs and he got his due deserts.
Brian Challis, UK

Typical - A Scot shows the English how things should be done and is then forced out. See how well you do without him.
Douglas Macadam, Bermuda

As usual the FA shoot themselves in the foot. Crozier did a sound job and removed the old duffers who thought that Greenwood was a better bet than Clough.
Ian Howell, UK

Adam Crozier was brave and astute in his role, changing the FA from an old fart's slumber party into a dynamic organisation that the country can be proud of.
Mark Mann, England

It is so typical of the modern game that a man who has managed to drag the FA kicking and screaming into the 21st century eventually gets the axe because of pure, unadulterated greed.
Steve Hill, UK

Rejoice, for Ken Bates is now in charge of English football (we might as well get disband the England team).

Oh, and to Tim Makin, when did England beat Germany 5-1? Under an English manager?
Ewan Slater, England

It can't be a coincidence that many good things have happened since Adam Crozier joined the FA.
Colin Gilham, England

I wish he hadn't resigned. I think he did a decent job, appointed a good England manager, and was brave enough to go against the establishment. If he can't work how he wants to, then it is fair enough that he wants to resign, but I think it will disadvantage the FA and English football.
James Wheatley, Kansas, America

Yes, Crozier and Sven should go and bring back some people with a passion for ENGLISH football. But with them we should also be ready to welcome back boredom, lack of skill, ugly games, and constant losing. SVEN and CROZIER please stay!
Mike, Leeds

According to press reports his next big move was to make all the county FA officers professional. Maybe that was the last straw for all the idiotic fuddy-duddys that have strangled the game for so long. Now they can continue to hand out chairmanships to mates from the golf club or masons.
Neil, UK

It is such a shame that someone who finally modernised football should have to resign. It seems apparent that the money coming into the game was causing conflict regarding who got their cut.

Crozier was doing his job in looking out for the FA and football as a whole. Only time will tell how this may affect Sven and England's future. Unfortunately the odds are in favour of it being a negative rather than positive effect.
Stuart Brennan, USA

What exactly did he do anyway ?
Pete, UK

Should we listen to Bates for ideas on how to run things? Only if we want the whole FA to go the way of Chelsea - down and into debt!
Brownie, UK

Crozier probably spends Saturday afternoons watching black and white films on Channel Four. What the FA need is someone who loves football.
Stewart Stirk, Leeds

Once again people like Ken Bates try to undermine the England set-up. Crozier must stay.
Lars Mansson, England

Crozier should go and take Sven with him. He should be replaced by someone with a passion for ENGLISH football, who should in turn appoint an English manager.
Tim Makin, England

Crozier should stay - Bates and his cronies should go - and NOT come back!
Tom Canning, Canada

Adam Crozier has put English football back on track and introduced a number of standard practices from grass roots level that have and will benefit our football for the future.

I am very saddened to see him go. I would like to put forward my thanks as an Englishman for his efforts over the past three years.
Neil Dejyothin, England