Star comment: Another own goal from football's rulers

Forgive me for once again becoming just ever-so-slightly parochial but I'm fuming. And you should be too.

Would you write a history of British cinema without mentioning Hitchcock? Or compile the story of our literature without name-checking Chaucer or Orwell?

No? Then how come the FA can present a specially-commissioned mosaic logo to mark its 150th anniversary without any mention of the first footballer – in the world no less – to earn 100 caps, and a captain of England a record 90 times?

The extraordinary gaffe that is the non-recognition of Billy Wright renders meaningless a design intended to capture the iconic images of England's football history. It should be torn up and sent back to the drawing board with a note to remind its creator that football was not invented in 1992 when Rupert Murdoch bought it.

There are 32 images in the logo. A third of them mark events or figures from the 2000s. That despite the 12-and-a-bit years the new Millennium has been going representing barely one-twelfth of the 150 the mosaic is intended to salute. That this region's rich and vital contribution to the game's development continues to be air-brushed from history in order to satisfy agendas of the politically-correct or Sky's all-pervading influence is disturbing.

There's a close-up of Gerrard and Rooney, and Beckham of course, but not a glimpse of the Molineux floodlit games of the 1950s which may – just may – have had something to do with what we know today as the Champions League.

It smacks of the FA abandoning its heritage to satisfy the demands of the marketing suits obsessed with "the now" – folk who probably think the Lion of Vienna is a chocolate ice bar. It is a dumbed-down design for a dumbed-down football populace.

It is unforgiveable that a body as austere as the FA has seen fit to sign-off the work with such glaring omissions.