Desperate League send for Crozier

Adam Crozier, the chief executive of the Football Association, has been asked to help put together a plan to ensure the future of the Football League.

In an unprecedented step, Crozier has agreed to attend a crunch meeting on the restructuring of the League to be held in London today.

The talks, set up by the recently formed Football League restructuring committee, come a week after the League was rocked by the resignation of chief executive David Burns and chairman Keith Harris.

While the meeting has been called to tackle the immediate problems being faced by the League's 72 clubs in the wake of the collapse of ITV Digital, it is expected to provide the starting point for talks on the more general restructuring of English football.

The First Division clubs want to revamp the League to ensure a more independent and professional management structure along with a greater slice of television revenues.

The restructuring committee of Watford vice-chairman Haig Oundjian, Millwall chairman Theo Paphitis and Andrew Watson, chief executive of Burnley, have invited the Second and Third Division clubs to talk to them about the recommendations of a report on the future of the League by the accountants KPMG.

The report backs up the fears felt by most First Division clubs that the current organisation of the League is "unsustainable".