Everton and Liverpool have been urged to back reform to football governance by 10 Labour MPs ahead of the reveal of the Government's own plan for the future of the national game.
In a letter to the ECHO, signed by Liverpool MPs Kim Johnson (Riverside), Dan Carden (Walton), Paula Barker (Wavertree), and Ian Byrne (West Derby), as well as Merseyside MPs Marie Rimmer (St Helens South), Conor McGinn (St Helens North), Bill Esterson (Sefton Central), Peter Dowd (Bootle), Mick Whitley (Birkenhead) and Derek Twigg (Halton), the group have called on the city's two major football clubs to come together and support the football's reform and back the independent Fan-Led Review of Football Governance.
The Review champions financial sustainability, good governance, fan engagement and equality standards and arrived on the back of the collapse of football clubs such as Bury, the financial impact of COVID-19 on football and the failed bid to create a European Super League, of which Liverpool were a part until they renounced their intentions to join and afforded supporters group Spirit of Shankly and other fan groups the chance to form a Supporters Board that held the power of consent over any such plan in the future.
