Interview: Levelling up to save football from itself

Mark Gregory, one of Britain’s leading economists, who served Ernst & Young as chief economist for a decade, has published a thought provoking book on how English football can be saved from itself.

“A conversation on the future of football was urgent when I started this book, but it is critical now,” he says after the game was rocked by Covid and the Super League.

Gregory has a radical vision for the game, which involves far greater redistribution of Premier League riches and new owner-player settlement.

“The highest earning players have to show solidarity with their fellow professionals and accept some restrictions on wages at the top end of the game,” he says.