Aluko accuses English FA chief of asking her to sign statement saying they are NOT racist in return for pay-out... moments after they apologise for Sampson storm

Eniola Aluko speaks to the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee on Wednesday

Eni Aluko sensationally accused Football Association chief executive Martin Glenn of 'blackmail' on Wednesday afternoon after revealing he asked her to write a statement saying the FA was not institutionally racist in order to receive the second part of a pay-out from them.

It came after the FA issued a humiliating apology to Aluko after a new report into the conduct of former England manager Mark Sampson found that he had twice made what it admitted 'unacceptable' and racially prejudiced jokes.

Aluko started speaking to the Digital, Culture, Media and Sports Committee a couple of minutes after the Football Association released their apology at 2.30pm on Wednesday afternoon.

The Committee were also told by Glenn that Sampson is considering a wrongful dismissal claim and received a pay-off of nine months' salary.

And FA chairman Greg Clarke, as he bid to prove how inclusive the FA has become, claimed he had been approached by someone who was willing to introduce him to a gay Premier League footballer.

FA chief executive Martin Glenn has issued an apology to Eniola Aluko and Drew Spence

Aluko pictured with former England coach Mark Sampson at an event in 2015

During her evidence, Aluko was asked for details of payment of £80,000 in two tranches and how Glenn said the second part would be withheld unless she wrote a statement saying the FA was not racist.

Aluko said that the FA wanted to withhold the second part of the payment until after this summer's European Championship in Holland, where Aluko worked as a pundit for Channel 4.

Aluko told the committee: 'I had one meeting with Martin Glenn and he said if I wrote a statement that the Football Association is not institutionally racist, they would release the [second part of the] payment.

'I believed that bordered on blackmail. I categorically refused to write any statement. It is not for me to say that the FA is not institutionally racist.