Changes to the Premier League’s owners’ and directors’ test have been dismissed as ‘smoke and mirrors’ by leading politician Tracey Crouch.
The former sports minister says that the amendments, agreed yesterday and which prohibit those found guilty of human rights abuses from owning clubs or becoming a director, only reflect the ‘law of the land’.
Crouch has been instrumental in the arrival of an independent football regulator.
And she added that the changes, which come into force immediately, ‘don’t go as far as the White Paper’ on the regulator. ‘Smoke and mirrors,’ Crouch concluded.