Fair Game, an initiative committed to enhancing football governance, counts Grimsby Town as one of its founding members. Recently, it shed light on a “leaked proposal” detailing the suggested financial settlement from the Premier League to the English Football League, with the aim of achieving a fairer distribution of a portion of the £3.19bn annual TV revenue received by the top flight. The new deal would conditionally bring an additional £130m to the EFL but, under current arrangements, 75% of that would go to the Championship clubs.
In an attempt to gauge public sentiment, Fair Game conducted a survey, yielding an emphatic outcome: an overwhelming 99.4% of the 1,252 respondents expressed opposition to the proposed arrangement. The urgency to reach a resolution is not unrelated to the growing likelihood of the establishment of an independent regulator – an entity enjoying rare bipartisan political support.
