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Professional Football (Regulation)

Adjournment debate on Wednesday, 10 February 2010, in the House of Commons, led by Tony Lloyd. The answering member was Sion Simon.
Westminster Hall adjournment debate on governance and regulation of professional football.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
505 c289-314WH 
Session
2009-10
Department
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Chamber / Committee
Westminster Hall
Proceeding contributions
Mark Field | 505 c299WH (Link to this contribution) It is the fans who lose out. To be brutally honest, when the Glazers first appeared on the scene in ...
John Leech | 505 c299WH (Link to this contribution) I agree that losing 10 points is a bad sanction that encourages club owners not to go down that fina...

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Mark Field | 505 c298-9WH (Link to this contribution) Indeed, they are fans. Even Manchester United and Liverpool are saddled with the burden of foreign l...
Mark Field | 505 c297-8WH (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman. I saw that work when I watched my local club at Aldershot, where pe...
Bob Spink | 505 c297WH (Link to this contribution) On a positive note, will the hon. Gentleman join me in congratulating the Football League on its par...
Mark Field | 505 c297WH (Link to this contribution) I am a lifelong supporter of Bury football club, which beat Macclesfield Town only last night to rec...
John McDonnell | 505 c300-1WH (Link to this contribution) I declare an interest as the honorary vice-president of Hayes and Yeading football club, which was c...
Mark Field | 505 c299-300WH (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman will excuse me, other hon. Members want to speak and I want to say just a coup...
Speaker | 505 c305WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his brevity, following my request.
Mike Hancock | 505 c306WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Manchester, Central (Tony Lloyd) on securing the debate, and all ...
Andrew Pelling | 505 c303-5WH (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to serve under your chairmanship again, Sir Nicholas. It is most apposite tha...
Hugh Bayley | 505 c305WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to you, Sir Nicholas, and to colleagues for leaving some time for me to say a few word...
Mike Hancock | 505 c302WH (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman was intimately involved in the production of many of these reports. What as...
Richard Caborn | 505 c302-3WH (Link to this contribution) Those people did not want to relinquish the power of football to independence. They wanted a board i...
Speaker | 505 c301WH (Link to this contribution) Order. I make a plea. There are three Members who want to speak. We can go on for another 15 minutes...
Richard Caborn | 505 c302WH (Link to this contribution) I spent a happy and productive afternoon at Macclesfield football club when I opened its centre for ...
Gregory Campbell | 505 c301WH (Link to this contribution) I have listened with interest to some of the hon. Gentleman's suggestions. It would be valuable and ...
John McDonnell | 505 c301WH (Link to this contribution) I fully agree, which is why we should ask UEFA to take the issue up. Actually, Hayes has just bought...
Andrew Pelling | 505 c306WH (Link to this contribution) Obviously, we should not be jealous of the money that comes with the skills, but is not another effe...
Mike Hancock | 505 c308WH (Link to this contribution) One of the reasons for the debate's being fortuitous is that we should be looking to the premiership...
Mike Hancock | 505 c306WH (Link to this contribution) That point is as valid as those that have already been made about football administration. Some play...
Mark Field | 505 c306WH (Link to this contribution) Much as I share the hon. Gentleman's passion—I, too, am a long-standing supported of the game—I thin...
Mike Hancock | 505 c306-7WH (Link to this contribution) I do not doubt that football had problems, and Portsmouth had a notoriously bad record for away supp...
Andrew Pelling | 505 c308WH (Link to this contribution) Does not that show the importance of the premiership seeing it as a corporate product? One can makes...
Tony Lloyd | 505 c293WH (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend. Let me turn to the regulatory framework, which simply does not work. Wh...
Tony Lloyd | 505 c294-5WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend anticipates part of what I am going to say. He is absolutely right: if we do not have...
Graham Stringer | 505 c293-4WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my fellow United supporter. I have been following his arguments very carefully and ...
Tony Lloyd | 505 c295WH (Link to this contribution) Only because I want to appeal to the global audience. The NFL—the National Football League in Ameri...
John McDonnell | 505 c295WH (Link to this contribution) You were taking me with you. [Laughter.]
Tony Lloyd | 505 c295-6WH (Link to this contribution) Many of these ideas obviously ought to be on the table. I can think of arguments for and against suc...
Andrew Pelling | 505 c295WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman mentioned American sports. Would it not be better perhaps for the premier league ...
Tony Lloyd | 505 c296WH (Link to this contribution) I once had shares. Of course, they have now gone, because they have been liquidated and that has app...
Mike Hancock | 505 c296WH (Link to this contribution) You had shares? Why did you not vote?
Speaker | 505 c297WH (Link to this contribution) Order. Clearly, a number hon. Members would like to catch my eye and I would like to fit them all in...
Tony Lloyd | 505 c290WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an important point. That is absolutely the case. A football club represents...
Andrew Pelling | 505 c290WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on securing this important debate. I am sure that there is nothing...
Tony Lloyd | 505 c291WH (Link to this contribution) It is certainly a matter for consideration, but if the hon. Gentleman will bear with me, I shall com...
Bob Spink | 505 c290-1WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is making some excellent points. My constituents largely support Southend United ...
Tony Lloyd | 505 c289WH (Link to this contribution) As ever, Sir Nicholas, I welcome you to the Chair. It is interesting to note that we are discussing...
Tony Lloyd | 505 c290WH (Link to this contribution) Who said that it was not for politicians to step in? I do not think it was me. What I would say to m...
Bob Russell | 505 c290WH (Link to this contribution) I am concerned to hear what the hon. Gentleman says about Southend United. May I advise him that I c...
Hugh Bayley | 505 c291WH (Link to this contribution) York City football club was almost brought to its knees by the poor business decisions that were mad...
Tony Lloyd | 505 c291WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend probably remembers York City beating Manchester United—it is going back a week or two...
Ann Coffey | 505 c293WH (Link to this contribution) I entirely support my hon. Friend in his efforts to get a new framework that will give greater prote...
Tony Lloyd | 505 c292-3WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right, and that is central to what I want to get across. It is about th...
Derek Twigg | 505 c292WH (Link to this contribution) I am sure that my hon. Friend is aware of the absolutely massive opposition to the current Gillett a...
Tony Lloyd | 505 c291-2WH (Link to this contribution) I wonder whether the hon. Gentleman will allow me to make a bit of progress, but I will come on to t...
Mike Hancock | 505 c291WH (Link to this contribution) How does the hon. Gentleman envisage us changing the way in which football clubs are viewed? They ar...
Tony Lloyd | 505 c291WH (Link to this contribution) It also matters to the people of Portsmouth.
Tony Lloyd | 505 c291WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend, as Liverpool supporter, perhaps remembers that better than I do. The York model, li...
Speaker | 505 c293WH (Link to this contribution) Order. Will the hon. Lady address the Chair? I am getting on, and my hearing is not quite as good as...
Ann Coffey | 505 c293WH (Link to this contribution) I apologise, Sir Nicholas. Before Christmas, I wrote to the Football League after a meeting with the...
Hugh Robertson | 505 c308-9WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Manchester, Central (Tony Lloyd) on securing the debate. Due to t...
Speaker | 505 c309WH (Link to this contribution) I ask the spokesman for the Opposition to continue his winding-up speech.
Andrew Pelling | 505 c310WH (Link to this contribution) I want to follow on from what the hon. Gentleman was saying before the Divisions about the 10-point ...
Hugh Robertson | 505 c310WH (Link to this contribution) I have barely started, but I give way to the hon. Gentleman.
Hugh Robertson | 505 c310WH (Link to this contribution) I do not disagree with anything that the hon. Gentleman says in any way, shape or form. I suppose th...
Richard Caborn | 505 c310-1WH (Link to this contribution) The Government have written to the FA about strengthening its governance with the seven-point plan a...
Hugh Robertson | 505 c310WH (Link to this contribution) I suppose that the straightforward answer is that there will always be circumstances in which that c...
Tony Lloyd | 505 c310WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman's comments about this matter are of great interest to hon. Members. However, rath...
Speaker | 505 c311WH (Link to this contribution) Order. I cannot stop an intervention, but we must give the Minister time to reply to the debate. The...
Tony Lloyd | 505 c311WH (Link to this contribution) Briefly, will the hon. Gentleman say something about the role of the supporter?
Hugh Robertson | 505 c311WH (Link to this contribution) Broadly speaking, the answer to that question is that I would support that approach. If the right ho...
Hugh Robertson | 505 c311-2WH (Link to this contribution) Time is ticking away, and I was going to say that it would be a positive and, in my view, overdue de...
Hugh Bayley | 505 c312WH (Link to this contribution) The future of the city of York's football club depends on its being able to build a new financially ...
Sion Simon | 505 c312WH (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Nicholas, as I last did at great length...
Sion Simon | 505 c312WH (Link to this contribution) I will be delighted to do that. My hon. Friend is very concerned about doing everything that he can ...
Andrew Pelling | 505 c313WH (Link to this contribution) Let me put a question to the Minister to prepare him for answering questions when he is mayor of Bir...
Sion Simon | 505 c313WH (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman mentions Birmingham, I can say on behalf of two soldier friends of mine that I...
Speaker | 505 c314WH (Link to this contribution) Order. May I say to the Minister—I want to be helpful—that he has only two minutes left? I am sorry ...
Sion Simon | 505 c314WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful, Sir Nicholas. Would that I had longer. My speech, unfortunately, would take considera...
Speaker | 505 c314WH (Link to this contribution) Order. We have run out of time. I have allowed a little leeway. I apologise to hon. Members, but I h...
Subjects
Finance
Governing bodies
Football
Ownership
Management
Regulation
Sports
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