Hi chap,
From one awful club owner fan to another... I feel your pain (I've not watchedy beloved pool for 3 years now)
New on here, and rushing to work, so not sure how you include a URL, but please see below petition... We are 100 off 10k and as fans we can reach this 100k... Change is needed in football and this can help bring it so other clubs in the future don't suffer.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/213108Ps will be b
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Hope ure fan base can boost this massively... Surely all ure fans will sign it. Tbf this petition should easily reach 100k but unfortunately I think fans just can't be bothered, particularly if there club is fine at mo.
Hope you get new owners soon... As for us no idea what is going to happen... The baliffs were at the club the other week.
Can't talk about our latest game as never went (3 years now since a game) but every credit to your 200+ fans that made the trip. I attended the original game but only for armfield memorial. I was in work prior and only realised game was off when a copper told some of your fans that it might ko later or Sunday. I was totally shocked how it had been called off, still to this day it doesn't make sense (especially as an amatuer team 3 miles away played at 3).
But your fans and players at the tribute were brilliant, something I will always remember.
Up the addicts and all the best for the future... Now sign that bloody petition lol as together we can change football
Can I ask a question, and you don't have to have an answer for it? If you had your dream world, what would a government oversight body for football look like? What kind of things would it do? Obviously with your situation it's asset stripping, plain and simple. But I'm thinking what could be done for people like Roland, or even Mike Ashley or Venkeys say, where they're losing money and/or have put a lot of money into a club and they're just running it poorly with contempt for supporters?
Sorry to put you on the spot like this. This is just something I think about a lot, because I don't know how you prevent people from running a business poorly.
My dream would be a supporters representative on the board of every club with a decision making say, but that's pipe dream stuff.
But trying to get fan's to sign this petition (and thank you for all that have) but I think fans aren't bothered... I would hope we would be motoring today but so far 160 signatures which is poor.
But we will keep fighting and have till August to get to 100k... Come on guys keep signing
The Government has responded to the petition you signed – “The Government must introduce an independent regulator for English football”.
Government responded:
HMG believes sports are best governed by modern, transparent, accountable and representative governing bodies, able to act decisively in the long-term interest of each sport and its participants.
HMG is aware of concerns that have been raised about the Football Association’s ability to govern the game effectively. As the national governing body for football in England, the FA is responsible for regulating, promoting and developing the game at every level.
The Sports Governance Code that came into force on 1 April 2017 applies to all sporting bodies in receipt of public funding from Sport England and UK Sport. It challenges the FA and all other governing bodies to demonstrate that they meet the highest standards of governance and regulation. The Code requires evidence that sports bodies operate efficiently and successfully while being transparent and representative of society.
We therefore welcome the reforms the FA has made to comply with the Code that include reducing its Board in size from 12 to 10 members, ensuring a more even gender split, and ensuring at least a quarter of its members are independent of football club interests. We believe that moving to a thoroughly strategic, accountable and representative Board with the right mix of skills, diversity and experience is the key to unlocking the long-term potential of football in this country, from grassroots up to the national teams.
The reform of the FA Council; changes to tenure, and the addition of new members will help ensure this body is also more representative of the modern game. The principle that all FA Committees should report to the Board is one we strongly support and is a requirement under the Code.
We are comfortable that the actions the FA has already taken and further actions it has agreed to implement to comply with the Sports Governance Code will improve its governance. This will continue to be monitored and managed through funding conditions which require ongoing compliance with the Code.
The Premier League (PL) and the English Football League (EFL) are not in receipt of public funding and therefore they and the clubs in their leagues are not regulated through the mandatory condition of funding which requires compliance with the Sports Governance Code. However, the PL and the EFL have established their own regulatory frameworks which clubs are required to comply with in order to participate in their respective leagues.
Indeed we welcome the fact that the financial state of football clubs in this country is better now than at any time over the last 20 years. Measures introduced in recent years include the Leagues requiring business cases and proof of funds from club owners, a working relationship between clubs and HMRC over tax owed, and the adoption of financial fair play rules. Together these have helped curb club debt and promoted sustainability. However, football clubs and the football authorities cannot be complacent. They must keep these rules under constant review.
Similarly, with regard to ownership of clubs, the onus for the football authorities is ensuring the criteria (known as the ‘Owners and Directors (ODT) Test’) as to whom can hold a controlling interest in clubs is as robust as possible, that due diligence is carried out on owners and conditions on what they can and cannot do are laid down from the start. We are pleased the football authorities have agreed to keep the ODT test under regular review and to listen to supporters’ concerns. This promise was outlined in the report of the Government’s Expert Working Group on Supporter Ownership and Engagement published in January 2016.
We are clear that we do not expect that the PL or EFL’s rulebooks will be superseded but it is right that policy-making on disciplinary issues sits outside the Leagues. The Football Regulatory Authority for example, is a body responsible for regulatory, disciplinary and rule-making for football played in England. The membership of the body is jointly made up of representatives from the national game, professional game and independent non-executives.
The Independent Football Ombudsman is also there to receive and adjudicate on complaints which have failed to be resolved by football clubs or the football authorities. The IFO is an important part of football’s self-regulatory system.
We accept that football governance must keep evolving if it is to keep pace with the challenges of the modern game and the global commercial attractiveness of English football. The Sports Governance Code helps, but the FA and other football bodies responsible for regulation of the game should continue to review how they are set up to ensure the effective running of the sport. At present, the regulatory framework that operates via league regulation through the PL and the EFL demonstrates there is already regulation of the governance of all football clubs. Where regulation is being managed by the existing authorities in football to the extent which it is, this negates the desire or need to establish an independent regulator
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"HMG believes sports are best governed by modern, transparent, accountable and representative governing bodies, able to act decisively in the long-term interest of each sport and its participants."
Can we have that then? That sounds good!