Football Governance Bill [Lords] Debate
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Phil Brickell
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Monday 28th April 2025
(1 day, 15 hours ago)
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Charlie Dewhirst
I disagree on the ideological level—on the ideological point about who should regulate football. I will come on to that in a second, but I do not believe it is the Government’s job. I believe that the football landscape already provides for regulation.
Charlie Dewhirst
No, I will make some progress on this point, if the hon. Gentleman does not mind.
As a former employee of a football club, Hull City, and as someone who has worked for a national governing body of a sport at the Rugby Football Union, and for a national elite sport funding body at UK Sport, I have some experience of this issue. Each of those bodies—the EFL, the EPL and the FA—has a role in regulation.