Crouch faces final calls to rein in Premier League as FIFA complaint is readied
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Former sports minister Tracey Crouch delivers her “fan led” review into English football this week and is facing growing calls to take sweeping action to curtail the influence of the Premier League.
EFL chairman Rick Parry has conceded that “external intervention” is needed following the breakdown of talks to rebalance English football’s cashflows.
Parry proposes scrapping of parachute payments as a “halfway house” if Crouch doesn’t impose sweeping reform, pointing out that they have risen 500 per cent as a proportion of total EFL revenue in just a decade.
Reform group to call on FIFA president to send in normalisation committee if Crouch’s report doesn’t go far enough.
21 November 2021 - 7:29 PM
As former sports minister Tracey Crouch prepares to publish her “fan led review” into English football governance this week, the Premier League’s financial and political dominance of the English game is coming under increasing pressure.
Football League chairman Rick Parry has called for “external intervention” to reconfigure the financial relationship between the Premier League and the rest of English football.
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