EFL chairman Rick Parry is confident the introduction of an independent regulator will ensure the fairer distribution of wealth throughout the pyramid and provide greater safeguards against questionable owners as the Government prepares to publish a White Paper into the future of football governance.
Fifteen months after Tracey Crouch’s Fan-Led Review of Football Governance, commissioned in the wake of the collapse of Bury and the breakaway proposals for the European Super League, this week is expected to see the recommendations further ratified.
It’s been an exhaustive and, at times, fraught process but there is hope that the seriousness of the situation at hand, with clubs in the EFL losing millions every year as they pursue the Premier League dream, as the gap between the top flight and rest grows wider, will lead to genuine reform.
