MPs have lent further support to the campaign for an independent regulator of football claiming that the self interest of Premier League club owners cannot be allowed to shape the future of the national game.
Hardly a week goes by these days when the Premier League and English Football League don’t find themselves in the sights of politicians.
MPs are angry at the failure of the governing bodies to agree a bail out for clubs in danger of going bust, more than eight months after the coronavirus pandemic swept Britain, and they don’t miss an opportunity to remind them.