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Professional Football (Regulation)

Proceeding contribution from Graham Stringer (Labour) in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 10 February 2010. It occurred during Adjournment debate on Professional Football (Regulation).
I am grateful to my fellow United supporter. I have been following his arguments very carefully and find that I agree with them. United's competitors are not York City or Southend or even really Portsmouth. United's main competitors are Real Madrid, Barcelona and Bayern Munich. We need a level playing field for international competition, and that is the responsibility of FIFA and UEFA, and they should introduce regulations to ensure transparency and to limit the amount of debt, and that would stop leveraged buy-outs, as happened to Manchester United.
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
505 c293-4WH 
Session
2009-10
Chamber / Committee
Westminster Hall
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