Here's what he had to say:

Barwick on The FA Compliance Department...

What I would like to say is that I have great confidence in our own Compliance Unit.

We are putting more people and more investment into it in 2007 and this is a Compliance Unit that occasionally comes under the focus and under the spotlight and comes in for some undeserved criticism and 2007, next year, we will introduce new agents' regulations, new doping regulations, and our fast-track disciplinary and fit and proper persons tests seem to be working out very well.

So we will take great interest in the Lord Stevens Inquiry, we have helped with it, and if there's any help needed going forward we will be part of that as well. We not only have the people, we are going to get more people.

Barwick on the Lord Stevens Inquiry...

I am awaiting the official report and you would not expect me to comment on anything I might or might not have heard. We are going to get the report tomorrow.

Barwick on England's performance at major tournaments...

We have reached the Quarter Finals of the last three major tournaments and we know that we have to improve on that and our aim is to do better.

We have a young team, we have a young squad, we take some delight in the fact that our Under-21s have reached the European Finals in Holland.

We have a new management team who are looking at every avenue for improvement. There can't be any bold predictions from here about what we do in the future other than we are trying to make sure that one day we will deliver something very special for the English footballing public.

Barwick on Wembley...

If you had spoken to me this time last year, I would have said the 2006 Cup Final may be happening there, and I would have had everything crossed. This time, I'm hoping with real optimism that the Cup Final of 2007 will be there.

The stadium looks magnificent, it's in the home straight of it's construction. I'm truly optimistic the Final will be there. However, I will not be definitive, I can't be until the keys are handed over to us. We are in a very different place than we were 12 months ago. We are in the same place as Multiplex, we are working with our constructor and our builder rather than perhaps on occasion being head to head with them. The reality is they are really up for finishing this project, but after that there are such things as ramp-up events to make sure the stadium is safe and secure to the paying public when they come.

What I have always learnt about this project is the public want the best stadium in the world - I can guarantee they will get it, and they want the safest and securest. That's my job to make sure it's safe and secure and then we are ready to have proper big football matches there.

Barwick on diving...

I think diving is an issue in the game. I don’t like it and I don’t think many football followers do. I think they think it’s wrong and I think we’ve got to work very hard as a football industry to cut it out.

Our officials need to spot it and we are getting better at it. It’s difficult, very difficult. I think the managers and the players have to also set the right tone by almost self-policing it themselves and I think we always have to draw the attention of the world body to it. It was The FA that, before the World Cup in 2006, drew attention to diving as one of the areas that referees and officials had to keep an eye on.

So we are not sitting back and letting this happen, we are working all the time at every level. What we are trying to do is work within the game to make sure that everyone accepts the fact that it’s the wrong side of the line.

Barwick's goals for 2007...

We want to qualify for Euro 2008, we want to have a great Women’s World Cup in China, we want to do well in the Under-21s in the summer, we want to open Wembley, we want to implement a Structural Review, we want to make sure our Compliance Unit is strengthened and able to deal with what comes its way, and we want to return football to the core of the organisation so that’s quite a busy 2007.