FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION chairman Greg Clarke says dumped England Women’s manager Mark Sampson should have been sacked “three or four years ago.”

The 34-year-old was fired last month because of “inappropriate and unacceptable behaviour” in his previous job at Bristol Academy.

Sampson was the subject of a year-long FA safeguarding investigation which concluded in 2015, but it was only brought to the attention of the governing body’s chief executive Martin Glenn — and subsequently Clarke — in September.