T he shining example of relegated Forest Green Rovers, diversity targets for season-ticket holders — the more Westminster gets down to the business of football, the greater the nightmare of political interference and regulation becomes. Want to talk mission creep? Here it is, in every proposed tweak and demand, that would tie clubs — including those that can barely make ends meet — to net zero and mandates so absurd that just raising them shows a fundamental failure to comprehend sport, its meaning and motives. This was about Bury, remember? A club sold for £1, pretty much because nobody would pay £1.
50. Now, if certain Lords had their way, that same enterprise would be saddled with a further raft of petitions that would have only hastened its demise. And football will live under this constant pressure now.
No going back. Every regulator is subject to the whims of its masters, to the fashionable big idea, to mission creep. Listen to Jenny Jones, the Green peer — Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb — with her ten amendments and glimpse football’s future.
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