Greg Dyke has launched a scathing attack on the board members of the Football Association, calling them “old and white” and saying he wants those in charge to be a representation of the wider population.

Speaking at a supporters summit at Wembley on Saturday, the FA chairman warned that football’s governing body is losing touch with the general public and needs a reform sooner rather than later.

“If you look at who’s supporting, who’s playing and then you look at the FA Council — it doesn’t represent them,” said the 67-year-old. “It’s still overwhelmingly male, overwhelmingly white, in a world that isn’t overwhelmingly male and white, and somehow that has to be changed.