A NEW shot regulator would destruct the Premier League, ministers person been warned.
Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe said a quango would strangle the competitiveness of 1 of Britain’s champion assets.
Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe, erstwhile president of Southampton FC and FA Board member, said mounting up a regulator could spot the Premier League destroyedPAHe insisted the league had built itself up without “interference from authorities oregon the state” and did not request it now.
Mr Lowe — erstwhile president of Southampton FC and FA Board subordinate — said mounting up immoderate regulator would beryllium an ain goal.
Speaking to The Sun’s Never Mind The Ballots show, helium said: “The Premier League’s an unbelievable success.
“It brings immense brushed power to Britain, it brings immense amounts of tax gross to the Exchequer.”
He past warned that London’s erstwhile world-beating fiscal centre was “destroyed by regulation”.
He asked: “Will the authorities instrumentality work if football goes the aforesaid mode . . . aft they present a regulator?
“Light interaction self-regulation built the Premier League. Regulation volition destruct it.”
Mr Lowe besides called for the lifting of the 3pm blackout which forbids large matches being shown unrecorded connected TV connected a Saturday.
The regulator would person powers to unit Premier League sides to bail retired cash-stripped lower-tier teams, clamp down connected dodgy owners and prohibition clubs joining breakaway super-leagues.
The Tories introduced the Football Governance Bill but person since pulled their support.
Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy is battling to get the authorities done the Lords wherever a cabal of peers are is trying to descend it.
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