I couldn’t go to bed. Someone was arguing in bad faith on the internet. The subject that pushed me over the edge and into insomnia was, of all things, the establishment of a football regulator.
There is an important discussion to be had about the Government’s White Paper and whether it can address persistent financial mismanagement or do anything about the use of English football clubs by autocratic regimes as an instrument of soft power. Of course, that’s not what most ordinary football fans really care about. Whether one supports a regulator largely comes down to a simple question: will it help my club?
