NON: Independent regulator for English football?
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Kudos
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If things stay as they are they'll have a decent chance of top six next season
DJ
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'Historic moment for fans': Legislation to create football regulator
The Premier League has already raised concerns about the new plans, which it says could "weaken the competitiveness and appeal of English football". The announcement comes following the Crouch review, triggered by an attempt to form a European Super League.
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billythekid
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All clubs from National League One to the Premier League will be need to be licensed to compete in competitions, following "a number of issues in recent years including financial mismanagement, breakaway plans for the European Super League, and changes to club names, badges and colours against the wishes of fans";
GaryRB
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Some interesting statements within the BBC article
Rick Parry
"Mindful that the future growth of the Premier League is not guaranteed, we remain concerned about any unintended consequences of legislation that could weaken the competitiveness and appeal of English football.
"The Premier League remains fully committed to delivering its world-leading funding to the wider game, through £1.6bn distributed to all levels of football across the current three-year term."
Reinforcing the PL ambition of growth across the world, further widening the gap between PL and EFL
David Sullivan
West Ham owner David Sullivan told Sky Sports: "The Premier League is the best league in the world so why change a winning formula?
"I hope the government don't wreck something that works. If over the coming seasons the Premier League ceases to be the best league in the world, it will be down to an interfering government."
He added: "Between the 20 clubs there is almost £2bn of debt, so there isn't really 'available cash' to give away."
Debt of £2bn, I'd say thats NOT a winning formula
Rick Parry
"Mindful that the future growth of the Premier League is not guaranteed, we remain concerned about any unintended consequences of legislation that could weaken the competitiveness and appeal of English football.
"The Premier League remains fully committed to delivering its world-leading funding to the wider game, through £1.6bn distributed to all levels of football across the current three-year term."
Reinforcing the PL ambition of growth across the world, further widening the gap between PL and EFL
David Sullivan
West Ham owner David Sullivan told Sky Sports: "The Premier League is the best league in the world so why change a winning formula?
"I hope the government don't wreck something that works. If over the coming seasons the Premier League ceases to be the best league in the world, it will be down to an interfering government."
He added: "Between the 20 clubs there is almost £2bn of debt, so there isn't really 'available cash' to give away."
Debt of £2bn, I'd say thats NOT a winning formula
billythekid
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This para.
"Football is far too important to communities and to people up and down the country, part of our social fabric, it's far too important too be left to self-interested owners of football clubs who will inevitably, with the best will in the world, look after their own bottom line first and that's why the game needs protecting."
Kevin Miles, chief executive of the Football Supporters' Association, has been speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live about the bill that is being introduced today: "It's a warm welcome for us from us for the idea of independent regulation because sadly we have so many examples of failure from football to regulate and organise itself. Nobody can accuse the government of rushing into this.
"It's 1,066 days since the European Super League which triggered the setting up of the fan led review in the first place. That was the most comprehensive survey of opinion around football that there's ever been with 130 hours of evidence taken.
"It came out with a clear recommendation that something needs to change because although football is commercial in terms of the Premier League, one of the big success stories financially, the impact that those finances have had on the game has been incredibly distorting with a lot of the money collected at one end of the game, sustainability issues up and down the pyramid, £6bn worth of debt shared by Premier League and Championship clubs which is clearly not sustainable.
"Football is far too important to communities and to people up and down the country, part of our social fabric, it's far too important too be left to self-interested owners of football clubs who will inevitably, with the best will in the world, look after their own bottom line first and that's why the game needs protecting."
More from Kevin Miles, chief executive of the Football Supporters' Association, speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live on whether the bill puts fans back into the heart of football: "Well that's certainly one of the stated intentions of it, it effectively gives fans a veto over things like all the important heritage issues which basically is symbolic rather than economically significant in some cases.
"But if people want to change the badge, or the playing name, or the playing colours, they're going to have to get fan approval and fan consent for those sort of things but also it mandates fan engagements in clubs, it mandates clubs establishing a shadow board or a fan advisory board in which the opinion of supporters are representative, democratically elected groups of supporters have to have access to information about what's going on at their football clubs and the ability to express an opinion about that and to discuss that with club officials.
"Now that's not a veto over what clubs do, it doesn't give them power to change anything but it makes sure that their voice at least is raised in every level of the game. We already have that sort of dialogue with the leagues and with the FA, we need to make sure that exists at every club and up and down the country as well to make sure that they can identify problems early on and if necessary, ring alarm bells at the early stages."
"Football is far too important to communities and to people up and down the country, part of our social fabric, it's far too important too be left to self-interested owners of football clubs who will inevitably, with the best will in the world, look after their own bottom line first and that's why the game needs protecting."
Kevin Miles, chief executive of the Football Supporters' Association, has been speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live about the bill that is being introduced today: "It's a warm welcome for us from us for the idea of independent regulation because sadly we have so many examples of failure from football to regulate and organise itself. Nobody can accuse the government of rushing into this.
"It's 1,066 days since the European Super League which triggered the setting up of the fan led review in the first place. That was the most comprehensive survey of opinion around football that there's ever been with 130 hours of evidence taken.
"It came out with a clear recommendation that something needs to change because although football is commercial in terms of the Premier League, one of the big success stories financially, the impact that those finances have had on the game has been incredibly distorting with a lot of the money collected at one end of the game, sustainability issues up and down the pyramid, £6bn worth of debt shared by Premier League and Championship clubs which is clearly not sustainable.
"Football is far too important to communities and to people up and down the country, part of our social fabric, it's far too important too be left to self-interested owners of football clubs who will inevitably, with the best will in the world, look after their own bottom line first and that's why the game needs protecting."
More from Kevin Miles, chief executive of the Football Supporters' Association, speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live on whether the bill puts fans back into the heart of football: "Well that's certainly one of the stated intentions of it, it effectively gives fans a veto over things like all the important heritage issues which basically is symbolic rather than economically significant in some cases.
"But if people want to change the badge, or the playing name, or the playing colours, they're going to have to get fan approval and fan consent for those sort of things but also it mandates fan engagements in clubs, it mandates clubs establishing a shadow board or a fan advisory board in which the opinion of supporters are representative, democratically elected groups of supporters have to have access to information about what's going on at their football clubs and the ability to express an opinion about that and to discuss that with club officials.
"Now that's not a veto over what clubs do, it doesn't give them power to change anything but it makes sure that their voice at least is raised in every level of the game. We already have that sort of dialogue with the leagues and with the FA, we need to make sure that exists at every club and up and down the country as well to make sure that they can identify problems early on and if necessary, ring alarm bells at the early stages."
RobTrent
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Who knows. But if you don’t try then you’ll never know.
billythekid
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Harry Maguire says he did not give permission for the Conservative Party to use an image of him and his partner on social media.
The photo is of the footballer talking to his then girlfriend - now his wife - Fern Hawkins after England's penalty shootout win over Colombia in the 2018 World Cup in Moscow.
It went viral at the time, with even Maguire himself posting it with the caption: "Can you ask the neighbours to put the bins out on Monday? We're not going home just yet."
But this week the Tories used the photo for a tweet following the publication of the Football Governance Bill, which will lead to the launch of an independent football regulator.
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The photo is of the footballer talking to his then girlfriend - now his wife - Fern Hawkins after England's penalty shootout win over Colombia in the 2018 World Cup in Moscow.
It went viral at the time, with even Maguire himself posting it with the caption: "Can you ask the neighbours to put the bins out on Monday? We're not going home just yet."
But this week the Tories used the photo for a tweet following the publication of the Football Governance Bill, which will lead to the launch of an independent football regulator.
Harry Maguire: Footballer says he did not give Tories permission to use picture of him
The photo, from 2018, is used in a Tory tweet about the Football Governance Bill, which will give an independent regulator powers including blocking teams from joining unapproved competitions such as the European Super League.
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kirsikka
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Ahh yes, Brighton. That example of the system working to help a small club get from near the bottom to somewhere near the top all thanks to the redistribution of PL wealth (please overlook the £500m or so the owner put into them to get them there, that doesn't count).
And yes, I know we've had investment as well. I'm not sure either would be examples of the system working as they're trying to make out.
