Independent Fan-led Review of Football Governance 10:35:00 Jo
Stevens (Cardiff Central) (Lab) (Urgent Question): To ask the
Secretary of State to make a statement on the independent fan-led
review of football governance. The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of
State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (Nigel Huddleston)
First, may I take this opportunity to thank my hon. Friend the
Member for Chatham and Aylesford (Tracey Crouch), the advisory
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Independent Fan-led Review of Football Governance
10:35:00
(Cardiff Central) (Lab)
(Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State to make a
statement on the independent fan-led review of football
governance.
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Digital, Culture,
Media and Sport ()
First, may I take this opportunity to thank my hon. Friend the
Member for Chatham and Aylesford (), the advisory panel of
experts and the thousands of football fans up and down the
country who have contributed to this report? Football clubs are
at the heart of our local communities, and fans are at the heart
of those clubs, but there were problems in football governance
and the voice of fans was not always being heard. That is why we
committed to the fan-led review of football governance in our
manifesto. The events seen at Bury and at Macclesfield Town, and
with the European super league, made it vital that we looked at
what reform was needed to protect those fans, and we triggered
the review back in April. My hon. Friend has today presented her
final report, setting out her recommendations. A copy has been
made available in the Library, and of course the Government will
formally and fully respond to the independent report in the new
year.
The review is a comprehensive examination of English football,
founded on more than 100 hours of engagement across the game and
the views of more than 20,000 fans. I am grateful to all those
who have given evidence, but most importantly to the fans who
have had their voice heard. That voice will remain at the heart
of our thinking in assessing the recommendations. The final
report is a thorough and detailed examination of the challenges
faced by English football. It shows the problems in football and
is clear that reform is needed to solve them. I will not go
through the 10 strategic recommendations and the 47 detailed
recommendations here, Mr Speaker, but they are wide-ranging and
comprehensive, addressing the need for an independent regulator,
improved financial sustainability, better governance and a proper
role for fans.
The report shows that fundamental change is needed in our
national game, and fans deserve that. We are at a turning point
for football in this country. The review is a detailed and worthy
piece of work that will require a substantive response and plan
of action from across government. However, the primary
recommendation of the review—that football requires a strong,
independent regulator—is one that I, and the Government, endorse
in principle today. The Government will now work at pace to
determine the most effective way to deliver an independent
regulator, and any powers that might be needed. That is what the
fans want, and this Government are on the side of fans.
I congratulate the hon. Member for Chatham and Aylesford () and her panel on their work,
and thank the Football Supporters’ Association and every fan who
took part in the review. We have known for a very long time that
football is broken—this is not a new thing—and we on this side of
the House have called for years for an independent regulator to
fix it. We are therefore delighted that that is the report’s key
recommendation, and I anticipate there will be a great amount of
consensus across the House on that. We would like to see a bit
more fan involvement, so just as the Football Association will be
allowed observer status on the independent regulator board, we
believe the FSA should too.
I was somewhat concerned to see the Secretary of State’s tweet
this morning. She said she is
“endorsing in principle the primary recommendation’’
of the review. Will the Minister allay my fears and confirm that
the Government accept both the principle and the detail of the
review’s recommendations on the independent regulator, and that
they will enshrine that in primary legislation? The Secretary of
State’s words in that tweet and the Minister’s words just now
appear to suggest something less than that.
Does the Minister agree that there is no need to delay further?
Will he commit to bring forward a Bill in the new year? If not,
when are we going to see the Bill? As the review makes clear, the
recommendations should be taken as a package, not as a pick ’n’
mix—anything less could leave us with a botched job—so will the
Minister commit to accepting all the recommendations of this very
thorough review?
On the golden share and supporters’ shadow boards, does the
Minister agree that any proposals for a breakaway league must be
discussed with those supporters’ shadow boards, regardless of any
confidentiality agreements that might have been signed by the
clubs involved?
Finally, have the Government had discussions at any point with
the Welsh Government about the reform of football governance in
respect of Welsh clubs that also take part in the English club
structure?
I am grateful to the hon. Lady and for the cross-party approach
to the issue of football governance taken by the Opposition
Front-Bench team and, indeed, the whole House. I hope that that
tone and co-operation will continue throughout, because our goals
and intentions are absolutely aligned.
I am sure the hon. Lady understands the process. This is an
independent report and if anybody knows my hon. Friend the Member
for Chatham and Aylesford—she is behind me—they will know that
she has taken a robust and independent approach. The Government
need to respond formally, and I am sure that the hon. Lady and
everybody else will understand that I cannot today pre-empt every
single element of the Government’s response to the conclusions. I
only saw the full report myself just a couple of days ago. We
take the recommendations incredibly seriously, and I am well
aware of the strength of feeling behind many of the proposals,
but I am sure the hon. Lady will appreciate that I cannot commit
100% to all the proposals today.
On how we go forward, I intend to proceed at pace—in fact, I had
a meeting this morning with my officials to discuss how we move
forward and how fast we can move. The whole House wants us to
move quickly; please, watch this space.
Mr Speaker
I call . [Hon. Members: “Hear,
hear!”]
(Chatham and Aylesford)
(Con)
Mr Speaker, I recognise that it is quite unique for the chair of
a Government review also to be a sitting Member of Parliament and
do not intend to abuse that position by—you know—urging the
Minister to accept the recommendations as a whole package and
advising that, obviously, if he says so in the Chamber, it has to
happen. But will he join me in thanking the thousands of fans who
took part in the fan-led review? Without the input of the fans
who served on the expert panel, the fans of the 130 clubs across
the whole of the pyramid who gave oral and written evidence and,
of course, the 20,000-plus fans who contributed to the survey,
the recommendations would not be as they are in the report.
Absolutely—I could not agree more with my hon. Friend. I again
offer sincere thanks to her, not only on my behalf but on behalf
of the whole Government, for the work she has done at incredible
pace. The work done has been extensive: she has travelled up and
down the country and been involved in Zoom calls and so many
other calls and, of course, 20,000 fans contributed online
submissions to the review in an incredibly short period of time.
We all need to recognise that we have already moved at pace and
that my hon. Friend moved at pace. I respect everything she has
done and look forward to continuing to work with her as we
formulate the Government’s response. I am hopeful that we will
all get a positive outcome, because football needs it.
(Paisley and Renfrewshire
North) (SNP)
I am immensely proud to be a supporter of Scotland’s most
successful team in the past decade: having waited 130 years for
their first major trophy, St Johnstone have won three in the past
seven years and are currently the holders of both cups.
I am also proud that the SNP Scottish Government’s recent changes
to club-ownership governance have been based on the development
of a fan bank to help supporters to take control of their clubs.
Fans already have a controlling interest in a quarter of the top
flight: the three clubs being Hearts, Motherwell and, of course,
the mighty Paisley St Mirren. By contrast, English football is
now fully awash with blood money from dictatorships and
oligarchs—similar to the Tory party conference, it must be
said.
The Scottish Government fan bank will support more fan ownership
where the supporters want it. Does the Minister agree that such a
move in England would help to freeze out the spivs, gangsters and
murderous regimes that are trying to sports-wash their image and
are now running and financing many English clubs? What further
actions do the Government plan to take to counter investors such
as those now at Newcastle United?
The hon. Gentleman knows of course that sport is a devolved
matter. I am sure that there are many learnings from the review
for English football that the Scottish football ecosystem would
perhaps take on board and consider. The clear message that I
would like to send to Scotland and to football in the UK is that
the report has made many recommendations, some of which may
require legislation that we are likely to pursue, but there are
many other things in the report that football itself can do
anyway, and, as I have said, that applies in both England and
Scotland.
(Folkestone and Hythe)
(Con)
I welcome the excellent report that my hon. Friend the Member for
Chatham and Aylesford () has prepared and I welcome
as well the fact that the Minister has said that, in principle,
the Government accept the creation of the independent regulator.
Obviously, it is vital that the independent regulator, when
created, has the powers that it needs to do the job. Can he
confirm that, in principle, the Government accept that that must
include real-time access to financial information about the clubs
if we are to prevent more club failures?
I thank my hon. Friend as well for his commitment, interest and
insight into football and, indeed, into sport in general over
many years and I appreciate what he is saying. Yes, I can say
that, of course, we could not have an effective regulator without
also having adequate powers, and the elements that he has
considered will, of course, be part of that package. When I say
that we accept in principle and are therefore considering moving
forward with legislation that includes not only the regulator
itself, but the powers that the regulator may have.
(Sheffield South East)
(Lab)
I thank my honourable football friend, the hon. Member for
Chatham and Aylesford (), for the report that she has
produced. We look forward to further discussions with her at the
football group meeting next week. , a previous Sports Minister,
convened a group of football parties in Sheffield, and we put
forward a submission to the review, promoting the independent
regulator, the golden share, and important elements of the review
that have now been published and supported by the hon. Lady. That
is really welcome. Does the Minister accept that, at the end of
the day, the regulator must have real powers to redistribute the
funding of football to do away with the cliff edge between the
premiership and the championship and the cliff edge within the
championship that is caused by parachute payments?
Again, I thank the hon. Gentleman. We have had many discussions
about football and I know of his interest. In fact, most people
in the House today have shown great passion and enthusiasm for
football over many, many years and have all contributed to the
review. He is right to point out that the regulator needs
adequate powers. That is exactly the kind of thing that we are
looking at and he will be well aware as well that, in the report,
there are recommendations about flow of finance. I do not believe
that we can completely divorce governance from financial flows,
so, in our response—and I cannot pre-empt the response
today—those will be exactly the kind of things we will be
considering.
(Bury North) (Con)
I welcome this report and pay tribute to my hon. Friend the
Member for Chatham and Aylesford (). As the review states, Bury
FC was founded in 1885,
“existed through countless economic cycles, several wars and 26
different Prime Ministers”—
but—
“ceased to exist in 2018-19 with a devastating impact on the
local economy and… a devastated fan base”.
So although I fully support the recommendations—they are our
vision for the sport going forward—the town of Bury should not be
left behind. Does the Minister agree that, as Bury FC is
mentioned 15 times in the review, one thing that should come out
of this is that all stakeholders should work together to ensure
that the community buys Gigg Lane for the people of Bury,
allowing football to continue in our historic stadium?
I thank my hon. Friend for that comment. We have had many
conversations about the situation in Bury. Indeed, I support the
goals of trying to get Bury back again in some form, as it is so
important. One of the underlying principles and thrusts of this
very review is to make sure that another Bury situation never
happens again. I agree with what he is saying and I would be
happy to provide what support I can to him directly.
(Caithness, Sutherland and
Easter Ross) (LD)
The 15th of May 2010 is etched in my memory as the sad day that
Ross County was beaten by Dundee United in the cup final.
Football is for everyone, particularly in Scotland, as the SNP
spokesman, hon. Member for Paisley and Renfrewshire North (), has pointed out. Will the
Minister have the closest possible negotiations with Ministers in
the Scottish Government, and will he think about consulting the
Scottish fan base, because the fans will have a lot to say?
I am sorry that that date 11 years ago is still scarred in the
hon. Gentleman’s memory. Indeed, he is right; we have
constructive meetings at both ministerial and official level with
the Scottish Government. Just last week or the week before, I met
Scottish sports Ministers and sports Ministers from across the
devolved Administrations precisely to share learnings,
experiences and best practice. The fan-led review will be part of
future discussions. I understand that fans from Scotland—I am not
sure how many—have already contributed to the review through
online submissions. We appreciate their involvement.
(Loughborough) (Con)
As my hon. Friend has said, football clubs are at the very heart
of local communities, including the mighty Leicester City, which
has its training ground in my Loughborough constituency—and I am
very proud about it too. Does he agree that the fans are at the
centre of the national game, so it was absolutely right that the
review was fan-led, and that it is what the fans deserve?
Absolutely. It is always a pleasure to talk all things sport with
my hon. Friend, who represents one of the sportiest
constituencies in the country, which appropriately has an
incredibly sport-loving Member of Parliament. She is right to
praise Leicester City and to focus on the fan-led aspect of the
review, which is precisely why we had such levels of engagement
from fans across the country. The outcomes of the online survey
show overwhelming support for many of the measures outlined in
the report of my hon. Friend the Member for Chatham and
Aylesford, and we need to take that very seriously indeed.
(Rochdale) (Lab)
I also join the congratulations to the hon. Member for Chatham
and Aylesford (), who I call my hon. Friend
in this case.
The reports of the report are extremely promising, but if we are
going to create the post of a regulator, that regulator must have
not simply legal power, but the resource base needed to do the
job. The same is true if we are going to give some control to
supporters. Will the Minister guarantee that the supporters will
have both the resource and the legal capacity to exercise that
kind of control? Importantly, will it be clear that the
objectives of the regulator will include the fact that football
is a sport belonging to the community, not simply a commodity to
be bought and sold like my club Manchester United or my other
club Rochdale, which recently fought off a malicious
takeover?
I recognise that the report is rather hefty at 160 pages, so
perhaps not everybody has yet read every single element of it,
but the summary reports are broadly accurate. I would not misread
my comments; in principle, we support the regulator, but of
course the details need to be worked on, including the scope,
powers and resources, exactly as the hon. Gentleman has
articulated. That is why I cannot come here today and say,
“Absolutely, 100%”. We need to work on some elements, including
the ways of working. In principle, we absolutely accept the idea
of a regulator. It has overwhelming support in the country, and I
hope that everybody watching can see that it has overwhelming
support in this House.
(Clwyd West) (Con)
I also congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Chatham and
Aylesford () on this review.
The English football pyramid includes five Welsh football clubs,
including Wrexham football club, which is the fourth-oldest
professional side in the world. Therefore, if my hon. Friend is
going to take forward the proposals into legislation, will he
assure the House that he will be liaising closely with the Welsh
Government and obtaining all necessary legislative consent?
Yes, indeed; I can give my right hon. Friend that confirmation.
He is absolutely right that we need to consider the clubs in
Wales. I was delighted last year to visit Wrexham, which has some
interesting and enthusiastic new owners, but we also need to
consider the other clubs. Any changes in the English system would
have implications for a limited number of clubs in Wales, and
that would be taken into account in any forthcoming
recommendations.
(Huddersfield)
(Lab/Co-op)
This is a brilliant report by a colleague of ours that everyone
regards as their friend and a brilliant Sports Minister in the
past. However, everyone knows that there is something not quite
right at the heart of football, and it has to be sorted out. With
a team and a club like Huddersfield right at the heart of the
community, it is much bigger than just where it comes in the
league; it is what it puts into the community. Real fans in
Huddersfield and elsewhere will welcome this report. For too long
we have had rich Russian oligarchs and rich Americans who do not
really care about our communities doing what they will. As a
Co-operative Member of Parliament, I would like all the
clubs to be co-operatives and mutuals, but I know that is not in
the report. This is a good report and I hope the Government will
support it.
The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right to highlight the pivotal
role that our football clubs, and indeed many sports clubs, play
in their community on an ongoing basis—and boy, did we see during
the covid crisis how pivotal they were to their communities. I
thank them for all the work they have done up and down the
country in that regard. He is right that there are many elements
in the report, some of which will require legislation. However, I
repeat the appeal to the football authorities and football clubs:
there are many recommendations in the report that make a lot of
common sense, and they do not need to wait for legislation in
order to move forward with changes on, for example, heritage,
financial flows, aspects of governance and other things. In fact,
I encourage them to start working and moving now.
(Chingford and Woodford
Green) (Con)
I welcome the report from my hon. Friend the Member for Chatham
and Aylesford (). She and I share a passion
in that we are both season ticket holders at Tottenham—and you
have to be passionate about football if you are a season ticket
holder at Tottenham at the moment. Yes, absolutely, the part
about the regulator and all the other bits and pieces in the
report are important. I agree a little bit with the hon. Member
for Huddersfield (Mr Sheerman) with regard to the money. One of
the areas that is really critical is that a successful league
attracts money. As co-chair of the all-party Magnitsky sanctions
group, I want to make sure that in the end, when the Government
implement those, at the heart of it is an ability to stop people
bringing money into our sport that actually degrades it and comes
in very dangerous and dodgy circumstances.
I thank my right hon. Friend for his comments; he is absolutely
right. There are, understandably, recommendations in the report
on the owners and directors test, which is also right. There is
an inherent instinct for not really liking too much regulation,
but in this case, with football being so unique and so special,
because it has shown itself to be incapable of reforming itself,
we have to move, albeit reluctantly. Ideally we would not have
had to take these measures. He is also right about the huge
success and the important economic value of football to this
country. A report recently came out that said, for example, that
inbound tourism of people going to football matches was worth
£1.4 billion alone to the UK economy, with 1.5 million people
coming to the country just to watch our football matches. We
really do appreciate that value and want to make sure that
football is even more successful in the future because it is so
pivotal to our communities but also our economy.
(Newport East) (Lab)
I thank the hon. Member for Chatham and Aylesford () for her work on this.
Newport County is a club run by and for the fans and a stellar
example of the benefits that supporter ownership can bring on and
off the field. As part of the Minister’s response to this
much-needed review of football governance, will he look at the
Newport County model of community ownership as an example of how
the game should be run—from the ground up?
We should be playing a game of football bingo today and see how
many clubs we can tick off. The hon. Lady is absolutely right. I
am sure I speak for the author of the report and everybody else
in saying that we do not want to give the impression that all of
football is bad. There are many, many examples up and down the
country of incredibly well-run clubs and models of engagement
with fans that are admirable and that we really need to applaud.
Indeed, we would like to see more of these successful
co-operative models adopted in other parts of the country. She is
absolutely right to point out the positives as well.
(Kettering) (Con)
I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Chatham and
Aylesford () on producing such an
excellent report and doing so at pace. Kettering Town football
club is a popular local football club with a proud and long
heritage and historical footballing success. It has scored more
goals in all rounds of the FA cup than any other football club in
the country and was the first club in the country to have
sponsorship on its shirts. We need to get more money into
grassroots football clubs like Kettering Town. Will the Minister
therefore look favourably at the recommendations on the levy on
transfer fees, which are currently astronomical? More of that
money needs to go down to grassroots football.
I thank my hon. Friend for that piece of trivia—we learn
something new every day. He is right that the flow of football
finance is pivotal and it is important for the ecosystem that the
grassroots succeed as well. We have already seen some changes and
movement from the top tiers to grassroots and lower tiers, and
the message today is that we would like to see more. Through the
arm’s length bodies of Government and indeed football itself, we
want to see more money flowing through to the all-important
grassroots levels.
(Glenrothes) (SNP)
Some premier league footballers get paid more for a single match
than the entire balance sheet value of clubs such as my local
constituency team of East Fife. That indicates the gulf in
resources. Can I press the Minister on what action he intends to
take to prevent entirely unsuitable individuals or organisations
from swallowing up more and more football clubs? Does he agree
that it is too important to be left purely to self-regulation?
Does he agree that it is time for legislation to prevent people
who are unfit to be given a licence to run a pub from taking over
football clubs in England, Scotland or anywhere else?
The hon. Gentleman is right that the future regulatory
environment needs to look at a whole host of things. We will
therefore consider the powers, responsibilities and resources of
any regulator. He is also right that—I have said this before, and
it is clear in the report—we cannot divorce financial flows from
governance. The financial flows within sport, including
purchasing and acquisition, are an important part, and we will
respond in detail in due course.
(Bassetlaw) (Con)
I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Chatham and
Aylesford () on her excellent report. In
my constituency I have Worksop Town—the Tigers—who are the fourth
oldest club in the world. Worksop Town faced oblivion not too
long ago but were saved by the fans and the community all pulling
together to raise funds. We also had a generous benefactor as
part of that. I am also a very long-suffering supporter of Notts
County, who are the oldest professional club in the world, which
I admit is hard work. Once upon a time, I was technically an
owner of Notts County as I was a member of the supporters’ trust
that took over the club. It was very well meaning and seemed to
be a great model, but it was a fairly unmitigated disaster: we
did not really have any money to invest and that caused problems
down the line. Does my hon. Friend the Minister agree that, as is
emphasised in the report, we must concentrate on a partnership
between fans and owners and that, unfortunately, one cannot exist
without the other?
I agree completely. It is really important that all clubs take
their responsibility to their fans incredibly seriously.
Unfortunately, as we saw with the European super league
proposals, that relationship had broken down with some clubs.
However, in the lower leagues in particular, we see much better
relationships between owners and fans. Again, one of the
important messages is that many owners have a great relationship
with the clubs and the fanbase, including some of the
international owners. It can work. My hon. Friend is right to
highlight the importance of ensuring that that relationship is
pivotal in any future business model.
(Ogmore) (Lab)
I pay tribute to the hon. Member for Chatham and Aylesford
() for her work on the issue
and for championing the cause. The Minister has said many times
to hon. Members across the House that he and the Secretary of
State agree with the principle of the recommendations, and he has
talked about legislation possibly next year. May I push him
further for the detail of the Department’s formal response to the
report as soon as possible? Millions of fans across the UK are
waiting to know what the Minister and Secretary of State will do
on timescales. It cannot be that, in a year’s time, we are still
here debating it through another urgent question.
I absolutely appreciate the sense of urgency, because one basis
of the report was to ensure that some of the crises that we have
seen in the sport do not happen again, so there is an urgent need
for action. On the process, the hon. Gentleman will appreciate
that it is an independent report that the Government need to
respond to formally. I do not want to pre-empt those conclusions
today; we need to do some work. I can tell him, however, that my
first meeting to discuss the response to the report happened this
morning. I will then need to have some conversations with my
right hon. Friend the Leader of the House, who is sitting next to
me, about the process and where we go forward as well—I am sure
that he also heard the comments of the hon. Member for Ogmore
().
(Wantage) (Con)
I, too, thank my hon. Friend the Member for Chatham and Aylesford
() for all her work on this
excellent report. In my constituency, I have a series of very
small clubs, such as Didcot Town, Wantage Town and Wallingford
Town, which are often run on a shoestring by volunteers who put
in their own money to keep them going. Can my hon. Friend the
Minister assure me that, when he considers the report’s
recommendations, he will think about how we can protect clubs
such as those, not just clubs in the top two divisions? If they
go, the community loses something important.
I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend about the pivotal role
that clubs such as his play in their communities, as we have seen
particularly in the last two years. It is vital that we put them
on a sustainable and sound footing, so financial flows within the
football ecosystem were part of the review. There is a lot of
money in football, but it is not always in the right place.
(Rutherglen and Hamilton
West) (Ind)
The report suggests that the ban on drinking alcohol in the
stands could be lifted. Although that may help to bolster club
finances, it could have huge consequences for antisocial
behaviour, particularly at big games when team rivalries can
cause tensions to run high. Have the Government considered the
impact that the ban’s removal could have? What measures would
they put in place to mitigate that?
The hon. Lady will be aware that one of the recommendations made
by my hon. Friend the Member for Chatham and Aylesford is a pilot
programme, rather than a full, wholesale removal in one fell
swoop. In responding to the report we will consider all the
aspects that the hon. Lady and others have mentioned, because
there are many stakeholders with views and opinions about
that.
(Blackpool South) (Con)
Blackpool football club has suffered greatly over much of the
past 10 years because of the actions of an irresponsible owner.
Thankfully, the club is now in much better hands under its new
chairman Simon Sadler and success is following on the pitch. Will
my hon. Friend join me in welcoming the new owners and directors
test for clubs that the review outlines, which will hopefully
help to avoid the situation we saw in Blackpool being widespread
among other clubs?
My hon. Friend makes some important points. Without pre-empting
our conclusions to the report’s recommendations, everybody is
aware that the current owners and directors test has not
fulfilled all of its expectations. Many issues and concerns have
been raised about it, so my hon. Friend the Member for Chatham
and Aylesford has made recommendations in the report that we will
seriously consider. I praise the new owners because, as my hon.
Friend the Member for Blackpool South () has shown, a change of
attitude and ownership can change a club’s position in its
community overnight.
(Strangford) (DUP)
Like the hon. Member for Loughborough (), I am a Leicester City
supporter, which proves that the fanbase for the club transcends
not only the Chamber politically, but the whole United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Northern Ireland. I thank the hon. Member for
Chatham and Aylesford () for her hard work and
endeavours. The Minister is aware that the beautiful game can
turn ugly when money becomes the only consideration for clubs.
How will the reforms allow a structured approach without removing
the ability for club governors to be innovative and make new
calls? It is a delicate balance, as he has said, but does he
believe that the Government have reached that point?
The hon. Gentleman makes some important points. We always need to
ensure that the balance is right. The principle is that we want
football to be even more successful and sustainable in future,
which means encouraging and supporting innovation and investment.
We need to make sure that that signal is out there, but that
needs to be done responsibly. It is fantastic that he is a
Leicester City fan. It is amazing how many new fans come out in
this place when clubs are successful.
Mr Speaker
We must not forget the mighty Bolton Wanderers either.
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