People who love football explain how they'd fix it

It's being claimed "stupid old men" are blocking change at the Football Association.

The government has been debating how football needs to evolve and is threatening to remove funding if it doesn't reform.

We've heard for years that the game needs to become more diverse and criticism that big money is changing it.

So we asked four people who think football is broken how they'd fix it.

It needs to 'embrace change'

Tyra Ali Ntege is 17 (above) and plays for Crystal Palace youth team. She is also an ambassador for football's equality and inclusion organisation Kick It Out.

Tyra thinks the game needs to change dramatically to represent wider society.

"It's simply demonstrated by the FA Council themselves who are comprised mainly of 60-year-old white men.

"I feel the FA Youth Council could be more diverse and increase their representation.

"At the end of the day, you cannot be running an organisation in such a dominating sport and be so far removed from the realities that are happening beneath you.

"You have to embrace change and you have to move forward.

"At the moment I'm witnessing quite a conservative attitude in the FA. The future of football, and where I stand in it, is something that I feel quite hopeless about."

Football is an 'old boy's club'

Anthony Smith is the chairman of the LGBT friendly club Birmingham Blaze and he thinks the game needs to have openly gay players at the top of it.

"What I think football needs to do to change from being an old boy's club, is to accept that there are some LGBT players in the professional game.

"At the moment LGBT people are discriminated against in the fact that they can't be themselves at games.

"It needs to change."

I want to see more women's football on TV

Emma Marlow is a goalkeeper at AFC Wimbledon and a coach at the club. She thinks teaching is hard to fit in around a full-time job because some courses take more than ten days to complete.

"I think it's really difficult to get into coaching and I think the FA needs to make it much more accessible," she tells Newsbeat.

She has other suggestions to get more women involved with the game:

"It needs to publicise the women's game better and put more England games on TV, so that young girls have something to aspire to."

I felt alienated as a Premier League fan

Lee Price stopped supporting Manchester United for lower league Dagenham & Redbridge because he felt that top clubs were letting down fans.

Lee likes a close-up selfie

"Clubs are businesses and fans are seen as customers," Lee tells Newsbeat.

"As a result, atmosphere's being affected.

"Teams make so much money from from their TV deals, they don't need to charge a single penny for tickets.

"I'd cap all tickets at £20 so we don't price out keen customers AKA fans."

He also wants to see a physical change to grounds:

"I'd allow standing at games and stop treating players like caged animals."

It's not just these guys that have a view on how to improve football, BBC Sport got hundreds of responses when they asked a similar question.

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