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Chris Hughton (above) Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink way “banter” – Glenn will “oversee a sustained focus on enhancing the culture around the England women’s senior team”, working with UK Sport to develop a “set of guidelines” and create clarity on codes of conduct for players and coaches.

This move will see Dan Ashworth – the FA’S director of elite development – temporarily no longer in charge of non-technical decisions across the women’s game. Glenn insisted Ashworth remains head of the FA’S technical division but that his focus should be on assisting Southgate with World Cup preparations while “cultural changes” are made across the women’s game.

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with the fallout from the Aluko case. Glenn also revealed the organisation will publicly disclose its gender pay gap by April.

The FA said it planned to pay off the remaining £142 million mortgage on Wembley Stadium by the end of 2024 to free up cash to be invested back into the game. As part of that, and reflecting the last television deals agreed by the FA, and the kit deal with Nike, there will be more investment in grass-roots and women’s football.

The FA is also doubling the prize money in the FA Cup to reflect the interest in the competition, to help smaller clubs and encourage the bigger ones to try to win it.