Former England defender Gary Neville, retired Olympian Denise Lewis and ex-Football Association chairman David Bernstein have combined to call for independent regulation of English football to solve its "crisis".
The trio are part of a group who have issued a manifesto for change called 'Saving Our Beautiful Game'.
It is the latest development in a week in which controversial plans to restructure English football - led by Liverpool and Manchester United - were then rejected at a meeting of the 20 Premier League clubs on Wednesday.
The proposals - dubbed 'Project Big Picture' - to reform the English game came to light on Saturday before Premier League clubs "unanimously agreed" at their meeting that they would not be "endorsed or pursued".