Last October, then Culture Secretary Andy Burnham put considerable pressure on the Premier
League to increase its clubs financial transparency and regulation with a series of penetrating
questions which asked the League to "reassess its relationship with money". The League, as David
Conn put it, neatly "body-swerved" the meat of Burnham's proposals with its response this year,
which we'll continue to look at.
For some, it was the romantic football story of the summer, whilst for others it was a story
that didn't quite make sense. The take-over of Notts County and the subsequent arrival of
Sven-Goran Eriksson and Sol Campbell changed the future of Notts County, but is everything at
Meadow Lane sweetness and light?
Big Story
Yesterday we looked briefly at the concerns about the
Football Association's lack of reform expressed by Sports Minister Gary Sutcliffe.
But how has the Labour government in its twelve years in power and with a long-proclaimed aim to
modernise and promote the broader development of football fared itself in ensuring this
happens?
