The Warm-Up: Three new scandals leave FA in disarray, Romelu Lukaku's plea to fans

Aluko was paid to keep quiet after she made allegations of bullying, harassment and racism against former England women's manager Mark Sampson. But only 24 hours after Sampson was sacked for having inappropriate relationships with players in a previous job, Sportsmail has learned that payments due to Aluko have been stopped, raising further concerns about the FA hierarchy.

The Football Association was plunged deeper into crisis over the Sampson scandal on Thursday after it was claimed it had been warned about concerns over his conduct even before appointing him. With the game still reeling from Sampson’s sacking over clear evidence of inappropriate and unacceptable behaviour by a coach, the Women in Football (WiF) network said questions over Sampson’s suitability for the role were flagged to the FA as early as 2013 during the recruitment process. The Telegraph has also learnt that a rumour about Sampson while he was manager of Bristol Academy at South Gloucestershire and Stroud College (SGS) sparked a safeguarding inquiry there in 2012 that found no case to answer. Both developments raised serious questions about the due diligence carried out by the FA.

Martin Glenn, the Football Association’s heavily criticised chief executive, faces further embarrassment after admitting the organisation deliberately chose a black woman to investigate the Mark Sampson race allegations – without apparently realising the FA’s lawyers had already sent a letter to the Guardian warning such a claim was plainly false... Glenn... went on to say he had made it a condition to have a woman who is not white in charge of the inquiry, without appearing to realise that the FA’s solicitors, Farrer & Co, had written to the Guardian on 25 August to say that any suggestion that it had deliberately chosen a black woman would be inaccurate and construed as a personal attack. "That suggestion is plainly false and categorically rejected," it read.