Andy Burnham and David Bernstein also part of groupProposal comes amid controversy over Project Big PictureGary Neville, Andy Burnham, the former
Football Association chairman David Bernstein and five other prominent people from varied career backgrounds are expected to intervene in the escalating battle over the game’s future by calling for independent regulation.
The group have been involved for months in working on a plan for reform and have signed up to a report to be published on Thursday, according to David Davies, the former FA executive director until 2006, who has been centrally involved.