“You’ve got clubs that are challenging the Premier League’s own rules, and finding ways to seek to go around the rules, or say the rules aren’t fit for purpose.
“It’s like ‘football clubs don’t go out of business so therefore the football industry is healthy’, but then you look at what’s going on in the Premier League itself.”.
“We’ve seen it in the past, every time there’s been potential government intervention, the Premier League or Football League bring in certain regulations saying ‘you don’t need to, this is now what we’re doing’.
Professor in sports business Geoff Walters tells Miguel Delaney why English football needs an independent body to save itself from a crisis of regulation.
If the Premier League loses that case, it is really, really harmful for the Premier League.
