West Ham United owner David Sullivan says the Premier League “may cease” to be the world’s top division if an independent regulator is introduced.
Such a regulator would be brought in if the Football Governance Bill – which had its first reading in Parliament on Tuesday – was made law.
The UK government announced its plans to appoint a regulator following a fan-led review into football in 2022.
But Sullivan said a regulator is only needed “when things are going badly”.
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Three Arsenal supporters have been given three-year football banning orders after pleading guilty to tragedy chanting during an FA Cup tie against Liverpool.
The fans were charged with a public order of offense after being heard in the match at Emirates Stadium on 7 January.
Arsenal says it has a “zero-tolerance approach” to tragedy chanting.
“We strongly condemn this abhorrent behavior,” the club said in a statement on its website.
“We will always ensure strong action is taken against those found guilty of such behavior,”
Wolves gave all they had last Saturday, but with their attacking resources in particular pruned harshly by injuries, they were – literally in several cases – hamstrung. Their breathtaking rise and fall in the final minutes demonstrated both the squad’s extraordinary powers of motivation, and the natural limits of those powers.
Gary O’Neil noted in September that the team he had inherited was “loose within their structure”. He explained: “They like to go one-v-one and try tricks and try to find their own way through. The game shouldn’t be that complicated. We should be able to play through the structure
Looking back, with hindsight, McMurtry can see the signs.
As a teenager, she would feel disconnected from others. She would clown around and join in the high jinks, but, emotionally, she was always one step removed; like it was a role she was obliged to play.
Sport was better.
“You are speaking through your actions rather than words – that is how you get respect,” she says.
“You are doing something, rather than just existing. There is a common purpose, there is a point to being together – there was so much about sport that spoke to how my brain
