This from Fair Game:
Yesterday morning, the Government published
the long-awaited Policy Paper, A sustainable future - reforming club football governance:
consultation response. The Paper represents the Government's final
view on the future of football before the expected Bill on Football Governance
is announced in the King's Speech on 7 November
We will be releasing our full analysis next week, but in the meantime we
issued this quick response yesterday, which was
picked up by The Athleitc and was running on the Press
Association news wires last night.
The further commitment to an Independent Regulator is to be welcomed, but there
are still a few areas that are essential to make sure this once in a lifetime
opportunity is not wasted...
Football finance... A fairer
financial flow
The Policy paper states clearly that "The current distribution of revenue
is not sufficient, contributing to problems of financial unsustainability and
having a destabilising effect on the football pyramid".
A great starting point, but it goes on to suggest that the regulator
"should not intervene in this space", at Fair Game we believe that
the regulator should set the patameters of football's financial flow, wiithout
doing so it will miss the opportunities to take control of the route caused of
the financial issues that have plagued the game for generations.
In addition, to stop the regulator's remit at Tier Five also represents a
missed opportunity. We believe regulation should go down to the National League
North and South at a bare minimum.