There’s nothing wrong with foreign owned football

Many are blaming the failed European Super League on foreign owners, presenting it as a greed fuelled attempt by overseas banks and businessmen to ruin the beautiful game.

The BBC’s political correspondent Ian Watson framed the disagreement as ‘a battle between football fans on the one hand and the predominantly overseas owners of big clubs on the other’. Similarly, the Football Supporters Association has said the proposals were being pushed by ‘foreign owners who are basically asset managers who can see a way of making massive amounts of money out of this’.

There’s nothing inherently evil about foreign owners of football clubs, or foreign owners of any other business for that matter. Highlighting foreignness to explain disagreeable behaviour should surely only be done when there is a solid evidential connection between the two. The only difference between foreign owners and British ones is that they are not subjects of Her Majesty. But