The FA are facing potentially embarrassing questions from within their own organisation about whether they stuck to their own rules in the appointment of John McDermott, who was announced as the successor to Les Reed as the governing body's technical director on Tuesday.
Sportsmail has learned that several members of the FA's Inclusion and Advisory Board are demanding to know whether the executive upheld their commitment to apply the so-called Rooney Rule in replacing Reed with McDermott, who only joined the organisation from Tottenham as deputy technical director six months ago.
The FA introduced the Rooney Rule two years ago under which they committed to interviewing at least one applicant from a BAME background for all senior coaching and management roles, but it is unclear whether this procedure was followed in this case.