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MP’s enquiry lays bare football’s governance failures

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Getty Images | “Everyone has to comply with the law of the land…. [There’s a belief] that football authorities should be a self governing world, but you’re dealing with some people with deep pockets and who are very tenacious,” said the chairman of Parliament’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Committee, Damian Collins, yesterday at a Parliamentary enquiry.

FA chairman: “The FA only got involved after Bury were expelled from the Football League.” 

 MP suggests Parliament give football authorities statutory powers.

Rogue owners took £1 million out of Bury.

22 October 2019 - 10:51 AM

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