Half of all television money coming into English football should be collected by the Government and shared more equally throughout the professional game, an MP has urged.

England’s early World Cup exit combined with deteriorating pitches and changing facilities for school football and people playing the sport for fun while billions of pounds pours into the Premier League is the right time for the Government to impose a 50% levy, Labour’s Roger Godsiff argues.

The Birmingham Hall Green MP believes the levy on all television monies coming into football, which he says is more than £5.6 billion for the Premier League, should be ring-fenced and administered by a reformed Football Foundation.

The charity would be responsible for ensuring the cash is better distributed throughout professional football and working with local authorities and schools to “radically” improve pitches and facilities, according to Mr Godsiff’s plan.

The MP also insisted the founders of the Premier League had asserted the division was set up to benefit the England team rather than to make owners, players and their agents “fabulously rich”.

Roy Hodgson’s England team were bundled out of the World Cup in Brazil after losing their first two group games to Italy and Uruguay, making a 0-0 draw against Costa Rica in their final game irrelevant.

It follows a similarly disappointing performance at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa in which England - then managed by Fabio Capello - were thrashed 4-1 by Germany in the second round after struggling through their group.

The Premier League formed in 1992 after a breakaway from the Football League and is promoted as the world’s best division, although worries have continuously been aired about its impact on the development of English players.

The Football Foundation is currently funded by the Premier League, the Football Association and the Government and says it directs £30 million every year into grassroots sport.

Mr Godsiff raised the idea for a television levy in an early day motion (EDM) tabled in the House of Commons.

These are formal motions submitted for debate in the House, although very few are actually debated.

His call follows last month’s appeal from the Local Government Association for the FA and Premier League to put more money each year back into community football schemes and facilities.

Mr Godsiff’s EDM states in full: “That this House regrets the elimination of the English football team from the World Cup; points out that all England players play in the Premier League which is the richest league in the world, with domestic television income totalling more than £5.6 billion during its current contracts; recalls that when the owners of Manchester United, Arsenal, Tottenham, Everton and Liverpool conspired with the managing director of LWT and the chief executive of the Football Association to break away from the Football League in 1992, every single individual involved asserted that the intention of setting up the Premier League was to benefit the England team and not to make owners, players and their agents fabulously rich; notes that while vast amounts of money are now pouring into the Premier League, school and recreational football is played on deteriorating pitches and changing facilities are often decrepit and unhygienic and, therefore, believes that the time is right for the Government to impose a 50 per cent levy on all television monies coming into football, with the proceeds not going to the Treasury but ring-fenced and administered by a reformed Football Foundation, which would have a duty to ensure a more equitable redistribution of monies throughout professional football and would have responsibility for working with local authorities and schools to ensure that local pitches and facilities are radically improved; and further points out that even if a 50 per cent levy on all television money coming into football was to be implemented, the Premier League would still be the richest league in the world.”