One of the few things that brought real joy at the Lib Dem conference last week was the party passing a football policy that included a lament about the sport’s focus on winning and the danger of an influx of overseas investment into the hugely successful Premier League.
But the Labour party clearly thought that this policy, mocked by so many, was actually something it should be considering too, and has announced its own football policy. Presumably on the basis that niche Lib Dem policies are apparently a good thing for Labour to mimic, goldfish will be next.
The party wants clubs to give supporters’ trusts the power to appoint and remove up to a quarter and no fewer than two of the posts on the club’s board of directors, and buy up to 10 per cent of the shares when a club changes ownership.
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