Football Regulator: ‘another expensive and unaccountable Quango’, says IEA expert
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IEA research referenced in The Telegraph
“English football is a global leader, with the richest and most successful club competition at elite level, watched by hundreds of millions worldwide.
“Below the Premier League there is a vast ecosystem of professional and semi-professional leagues which supply live sport to millions across the country. It is a sport open to all ethnic groups, and in recent years has seen a massive increase in the visibility and popularity of the women’s game.
“All of this has been created by over 150 years of private initiative and private money. Yet here comes a government on its last legs, creating an ‘Independent Regulator’.
“This would be another expensive and unaccountable Quango that will interfere with property rights, impose a crippling bureaucracy complete with the usual box-ticking woke demands, allow arbitrary redistribution, restrict competition and hamper new entrants.”
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In March 2022, Len co-authored Red Card: Why English Football doesn’t need an independent regulator.
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