Fair Game UK & The Birkbeck Sport Business Centre: The Future of Football
When:
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Venue:
Birkbeck Clore Management Centre
Fair Game UK & The Birkbeck Sport Business Centre: The Future of Football
In 2021, a group of twelve European football clubs, including six English Premier League clubs, proposed to form a breakaway European football club competition from the existing UEFA-organised UEFA Champions League. The plan failed, to a significant extent, as a result of an intense backlash by English football supporters. If the breakaway had been successful one of its consequences would certainly have been the diminution of the status of the English Premier League.
The collapse of the Super League proposal proved to be the catalyst for the initiation of a much wider debate about how English football should be governed. At the centre of the debate has been calls for the establishment of an independent regulator of English football, with the proposal being the subject of a government White Paper.
The Fair Game organisation represents a group of English and Welsh football clubs seeking radical reform of the governance of English football. The necessity that an independent regulator be established to govern English football is a central Fair Game policy demand.
In collaboration with Fair Game the Birkbeck Sport Business Centre is hosting this panel debate to discuss the Future of Football, and the possible place of an independent regulator in the football governance landscape:
The panel debate members are:
Chair: Sean Hamil, Birkbeck Sport Business Centre.
Panel:
· Niall Couper, CEO Fair Game UK
· Dr Christina Phillipou, University of Portsmouth.
· Dave Kitson, Ex-Premier League Footballer
· Damian Green MP, Member of Parliament for Ashford.
To register e-mail: media@fairgameuk.co.uk
For further details e-mail (Sean Hamil): s.hamil@bbk.ac.uk
Contact name:
Sean Hamil