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Jul 9, 2025, 02:51 AM ET
MPs voted successful favour of establishing a nonrecreational shot regulator nether a "Football Governance Bill" that would spot clubs handed operating licences.
The measure is acceptable to beryllium enshrined into instrumentality aft receiving 415 votes to 98 (a 317 majority) successful the House of Commons.
Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy said the bill, which volition make a regulator for the Premier League and English Football League (EFL), is desigend to guarantee that clubs tally sustainably successful a bid to halt teams from going retired of business.
"We promised successful our manifesto that we would extremity years of inaction and marque the changes that fans person fought for for truthful agelong and are truthful overdue," Nandy said.
"I americium arrogant to beryllium portion of the winning squad that has enactment our fans backmost connected the transportation astatine the bosom of the crippled wherever they belong."
She added: "This is for Macclesfield, for Wigan, for Bury, for Bolton, for Derby, for Reading, for Sheffield Wednesday, for Morecambe and for many, galore much who person had to endure the misery of being enactment past erstwhile they should person been enactment first."
