I was interviewed this morning by John Humphries on the Radio 4 "Today" programme about the football bung scandal revealed by BBC TV last night. As it happens, I had dinner last night with the Secretary General of UEFA, Lars-Christer Olsen who has long been concerned about the role of agents and about the amount of unaccounted money, sometimes of dubious origin, floating around in football.

Football needs to clean up its act if it is to avoid losing credibility and going into a spiral of decline. UEFA's intention to tightly regulate agents deserves support, as do the measures proposed by the Independent Review of European Football (click here for report) on which I served.

If the BBC's revelations help to create momentum behind the necessary reforms, then so much the better.

One silver lining: at least there are no allegations of match fixing. If ever it were to come to that, the credibility of Engish football would be shattered overnight.

Last night, I pressed Mr Olsson further on the leniency with which AC Milan has been treated (for more click here and here). Interestingly, UEFA seems to agree, claiming that they would have wished to take firm action but their lawyers warned them that their own rules are insufficient to enable that without losing a subsequent court case. Case law and the creation of the International Court for Arbitration in Sport have changed the situation since the days when UEFA took radical measures against English clubs in the 1980s. So, to strengthen the capacity of UEFA to actually do something in cases such as the Italian one, a change to its own statutes is necessary, and Olssen is proposing precisely that to the forthcoming UEFA Congress. I hope he succeeds.

Meanwhile, for all those Leeds Utd supporters who would like to see the result of the European Cup Winners' Cup Final of 1973 overturned, UEFA's statute of limitations on re-opening cases is 20 years. It would need new and extraordinary clear evidence to persuade them to make an exception. If there is anyone out there who has such evidence, please come forward.