Like I said. The exact argument used for Brexit and MAGA. "It can't possibly be as bad as it is now!"
Watch and see.
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Due warning everyone, Russ and the regulator has the potential to become Tricky and Kane-esque.
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Hey, look, I'd love to be wrong and this be the thing that a government gets right.
Anyone want to take a bet they don't?
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Except that modern football is brexshit and MAGA, and you seem to be arguing to leave it alone because it's fine. I'm not arguing that anything could be better than what we have. I'm arguing that a well structured accountable public regulator could be.
If you put me in charge I could structure an effective regulator for football. I'm not saying this will be. It could be. What we currently have in football doesn't need protection, it needs fixing. You and I both know that it's going to be corrupted like everything else in this world. I'm okay if the public purse benefits a bit, as opposed to no benefit at all - except to petrostates.
Now stop changing the subject and using Vladtics. Tell me how your idea of 'independent' works, where it derives it's power from, and how it is accountable to the people it's there to protect.
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I am not arguing to leave it alone. I'm telling you that the current chosen course will make it worse.
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What course of action, including doing nothing, won't make it worse?
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And no, I'm in the gym and I'm not posting a business plan on my phone between sets. I took a stab at it earlier, go read that. It's flawed. But it's better than letting politicians get their hands on things.
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It's not flawed, it's completely useless. Relying on words to do all the heavy lifting, with no meaningful structure that could actually do anything.
You cant just say "independent" and imagine that you've solved anything. Even I don't think that you are that much of an idiot.
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Sure. But don't expect me to advocate for something demonstrably worse, just because it's different. Again, Brexit.
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It's not demonstrably worse. It doesn't exist yet. Like brexshit, not listening that I'm not advocating any change for change sake, that I am explaining how it could work and be accountable to the people, and how people like you who are persuaded that something doesn't work because people who gain from it not working have broken it.
You might have misjudged who is actually on the feelings, not facts, they are all the same, preserve the power of global money, side of the discussion.
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I'm veering between 'fuck Palace - if we're losing Elanga lets have the consolation of the Europa League' and 'lets have a play off v Palace and if we win we get the EL and they have to buy Turner'.
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I'm voting for ingo being the new regulator, proving both Russ and Tricky wrong, and Forest getting a bye to the champions league final.
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Best proposal yet. Also the worst.
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Excellent, I promise to bring my own unique joie de vivre to the roll, a roll I'm looking to occupy for a good time, not a long time. Obviously, football governance is in a terrible neglected state so it's important to prioritise. The follow opening salvo would see the game transformed for the better overnight:
*Fit and proper persons test - Trusting these upstart nations (Americans, Gulf States, Thailand) is what has got us in this mess. So, whilst I have time to review each owners credentials, hotels, hospitality and brown envelopes the League and Cup prize money will be awarded via a complex formula based on the age and historical contribution of the club owner's country's civilization. The full allocation will be published in due to course but I was surprised as anyone to see Greece topping the charts and taking most of the prize money, good work Hercules!
*The Women's game - The breakthrough the women's game has made in the last ten years is outstanding, long overdue and should be applauded. Unfortunately, we've all see what demands for equal pay has done to Birmingham and their bins so it's important to apply some good honest capitalist principles here, also did anyone try and watch BBC1 last night? EastEnders double bill as a result of Euro coverage. The world isn't ready for that. Fortunately though this is why God invented ITV2 and those guys know a thing or two about advertising around a tough sell, they can look after the coverage until the revenues and bribes for the hard working guys in governance catch up with the excellent standards the men's game continues to set.
*The Welsh Problem - I've just double checked a map and Wales is still not in England. Open and shut vote winner this one. Wrexham, Swansea, Cardiff, Newport and Shrewsbury (just to be on the safe side) will have their league places rescinded and again a complex formula of club age/proximity to old clubs will be used to allocate the gaps. I'd like to congratulate Notts County and Stags on their return to the second tier and I hope Carlton Town, Radcliffe Olympic and Clifton All-Whites (who may or may not be actual Klansmen, but if they are that should bring some of the traditional conservative values the independent regular should be looking to return to the pyramid) enjoy their first taste of League Football.
*"B is for Burnley, B is for Bollocks" - Too many boring clubs beginning with B and have found their way into the upper echelons of English Football. This is costing the game zillions in TV revenue. It's important to celebrate their contribution to football, but this should only be done in the third tier and below.
*Profit and Sustainability Rules - When a class has a naughty kid in it the tendency these days is to punish the whole class. Many of these clubs being unfairly restricted have great wads of cash they are looking to get rid of and this should be celebrated, not demonised just because of a couple of repeat offenders. Sweep those guys under the carpet by burying them down the pyramid and the problem will disappear quicker than you can say "3 point deduction". The first draft of the ruling see's Everton return to the Championship, Sheffield Wednesday's first campaign in the South Yorkshire Alliances and serial offenders Leicester can say hello to the Falkland Islands Combination U8s Trophy. Have that, foxes.
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Genius. I for one welcome our new Ingo overlords
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You had me at Wales.
