The Football Governance Bill Explained

[@beardedjb2273]

This is one of those bills that isn't actually useful for the countries prosperity, but its a bill that LOADS of the electorate care about, and if done correctly, it could be a massive boost for Starmers rep with a lot of people who aren't too keen on Starmer.

[@blablup1214]

Yeah sounds pretty useless. Clubs having the problem paying too high wages to their player isn't really high on the priority list. But if it makes the voters happy....

[@wtfamiactuallyright1823]

I'd be pro some of it and give praise where they get it right but, near nothing could get me to vote for that party and certainly not, Starmer. 😕

[@Me-ui1zy]

tbf, football is a MASSIVE industry in Britain. It is not unusual for massive industries to have bills that specifically regulate them. What is unusual is the massive interest in a bill of this nature.

[@Me-ui1zy]

@@KSzkodaGames God I wish the economy was that simple ahah

[@terilyte3152]

​@@KSzkodaGames I think that is probably their focus, but fixing a lot of the major problems we have requires a huge cash investment, so once you've decided how to spend it there's not a huge amount more you can do. Money is the constraining factor, not time. The football Bill will cost basically nothing, so it's a good issue to tag onto the rest of the agenda

[@alex-simpson]

Huddersfield Town haven't been Premier League for a few seasons now. Yours sincerely, a despairing Huddersfield Town supporter.

[@MacrobianNomad]

Did you even look at the year they were quoting lol

[@tomosprice8136]

Football finances lag a few years before they are reported

[@ItsTheBoombox]

I mean Ipswich went from League 1 to the premier league in 2 seasons. There's always hope.

[@ActuallyJamesS]

@@ItsTheBoombox I took Woking from the conference to the champions league in 6 seasons.

[@yeetjones927]

By order of the Prime minister Huddersfield town will be given a premier league title 😂😂

[@Gennaropacchiano]

Next video: "Can Starmer save Christmas?"

[@toggle2565]

Probably not lol, he is more of a grinch

[@Mu3az523]

EPL valued as more than 11 billion and this value keeps increasing by 9% every year it's stupidity not to handle this matter seriously

[@MarcusKDavey]

😂

[@william2496]

Only Steven Moffat can do that

[@CMGThePerson]

I don't care if he successeds, I want Starmer dressed as Santa Claus

[@pangalacticgargleblaster2610]

As a Huddersfield town fan, it is weird hearing positive things said about them especially in the context of politics!

[@mikeharper5587]

A little bit disappointed that this doesn't mention where the bill originated from 6 years ago. Its from fan groups petitioning for legislation.

[@samwansbone2790]

TLDR doing a football video. Never thought I'd see the day

[@kvassman_]

They are british tho.. i feel like it was only a matter of time

[@samwansbone2790]

@@kvassman_ That is true

[@jesseberg3271]

If Yes Minister did an episode on it, TLDR will end up covering it.

[@espben360]

Same think that I thought 😂 I had to double check the name of the channel

[@dux_bellorum]

I now want a TLDR sports!

[@jackmellor5536]

I'd say it's even worse in Scotland major teams faced bankruptcy after poor ownership and the TV deals give unfair amounts of money to the Old Firm clubs compared to the rest of the league.

[@third7715]

West Bromwich Albion the worlds richest ever sports club. Trillionaire Chinese government nearly destroyed a founding member of the football league. Disgraceful.

[@Kanbei11]

It's a cautionary tale about how many clubs are being propped up by their owners

[@QuotidianStupidity]

Why do so many people conflate owner wealth with club wealth.

[@Vegan_Photographs]

What about all of the other non football businesses that goes out of business that literally no one gives a toss about..

[@somethinglikethat2176]

​@@QuotidianStupidity especially considering how many owner load the club up with debt from the cost of the buyout.

[@Lucifers-Stepdad]

​@@Vegan_Photographsprobably because of the things mentioned in this video. People really really really care about football. I'm not a football guy but I know a few, this is a huge issue to millions of voters.

[@Simalacrum]

Honestly this seems like a good idea, and I'm not even a football fan. The government's job covers safeguarding the UK's cultural heritage through schemes like National Parks, public funding for galleries/museums, Arts Council England, etc. I would put this into the same category as this.

[@plasmacannon1198]

Introduce the German system. 50%+1 shares must be owned by the fans

[@gerogyzurkov2259]

This^^ Should be for all sports really

[@anjelkanja8032]

With the money involved at the top league, you'd need 30+ million to support each team

[@Anonymous74916]

I would love this, honestly. I am also sadly of the mind that it will never happen thanks to owners. I will dream of the possibilities though.

[@PeterBowles316]

@@anjelkanja8032 not really. 50%+1 ownership doesn't mean the fans have to fund the insane losses. The club's could choose to operate in a way that's financially sustainable

[@Dere2727]

I would love it to happen, but it would cost billions to implement

[@dux_bellorum]

Can we have a regular TLDR sports channel? I need this to take my mind off the doom and gloom here in the USA and throughout the world....

[@svokxz6435]

Yeah we need that.

[@HeliumFreak]

Are you trying to tell me that paying someone 50k-250k+ a week to kick a ball about and train a few times a week isn't financially sustainable? Shocking

[@bob1234881]

@HeliumFreak nope. But it's great for income tax payments. 😀

[@dulouser1751]

Professional sports are entertainment, as long as there are enough people watching or following the sport these kinds of salaries are entirely sustainable.

[@bluebitproductions2836]

@@dulouser1751clearly not if they’re not profitable lol

[@calvins48]

They do more than that. Football seems like an easy profession until you actually try it. Especially at the top level.

[@dulouser1751]

@@calvins48 pretty much nothing is easy if you want to be amongst the world's finest, but this isn't rocket science or quantum physics, it is essentially kicking a ball around together with 21 grown men to entertain the audience. The only truly good thing about it is that it promotes exercise, albeit a lot of fans I've met could probably drink more beers than run laps around a field.

[@NicholasJH96]

As a Swansea supporter I hate to say it but these clubs including my own club need to be Operating within financial means of there’s. If clubs can’t afford to be within there financial means then unfortunately these clubs might have to go.

[@Alexander-yb1zc]

Love this bill, it's something people actually care about and also an massive part of UK culture and Economy. If they pass regulation on ticket master and dynamic pricing hats off to them.

[@goldenfiberwheat238]

This is just keeping the population content with bread and circuses instead of doing things that actually matter

[@PeterBowles316]

Almost all football clubs operate on a "bottomless pit" financial model, and it's almost impossible to operate sustainably.

[@davidrobinson4]

It’s funny when we talk about "uk football" but miss out the Scottish and Welsh league…. Imagine a world where the Scottish league was well funded and competitive

[@jamiecook1522]

If this can save Reading FC it is worth it

[@bigships]

Unless the Chinese bloke sells I doubt Reading can be saved

[@MrTARDIS]

00:20 - "Keir Starmer is a committed arse..." GO ON! "...nal fan." Oh :/

[@KaushikAdhikari]

Arse @nal

[@jasp0828]

At least spell arsenal correctly

[@dominicgamboa2554]

Love your work.

[@Jose_Rangel]

Just as bad

[@PastaGut]

Thanks for putting Leeds United in the Premier League. They're not but thank you.

[@LordValorum]

As someone who identifies as High Tory if Starmer fixes football then I'm supporting Labour for the next 30 years

[@nerenahd]

The real question is: can they save Man. U. football? That'd be a real feat.

[@nandinhocunha440]

They took Sporting CP manager. So they might do ok

[@DylanSargesson]

Important context that you've missed out is that this isn't a new Bill. The Conservatives also had also introduced a Football Governance Bill to Parliament before the General Election.

[@WhichDoctor1]

yeah, but the tory bill was based on the proposed law labour announced in 2022. The tories tried to reject the need for a regulator at the time insisting that self regulation was sufficient. But then in 2023 the tories succumbed to pressure and introduced a version of the labour proposal in that years kings speech. But then failed to actually put in the effort to make it happen. And now labour aren't carrying the tory bill forward, they are putting through their own law. So thats a lot of fairly irrelevant backstory to fit into an 8 minute video. Ultimately it's a labour idea, and now labour are going to pass it into law. Thats enough information for most people

[@Boosher_]

​@WhichDoctor1 thank you for the information 🙏

[@DylanSargesson]

@@WhichDoctor1 They didn't need to run through all of the history, but a passing mention that this isn't the first set of proposals on this topic would've been good to mention. Also that Labour, the Conservatives and Lib Dems all included an Independent Football Regulator in their manifestos for the General Election.

[@lthang2477]

​@WhichDoctor1 Tracey crouch spent years working with various footballing bodies,fans groups ect to get all the relevant information for the bill. She deserves alot of credit its effectively her bill and she put all the ground work in. Starmer actually talked about watering it down during the election campaign. Probably to protect his elitist arsenal over everyone else further down the pyramid

[@Jon.S]

As a non-football person outside the UK, is there a reason I never hear talk of any kind of salary cap for the EPL? Seems like it’s taboo to even mention it, which seems strange given unless you’re in the top half of the table you’re probably financially pretty stretched?

[@sarabafriend4701]

its because its funtioncally impossible to impose a salary cap on a global sport without international cooperation from literally every top/ all the highest paying leagues. So the pushback youll get from fans is the concern that if the best players arent being paid near the most in the UK they simply wont come to the UK and the EPL will end up terrible.

[@bipolarminddroppings]

Unlike US sports where there is a completely closed league with no global transfer market, players will go where the money is and if we put in a salary cap then everyone will just go play in the Saudi League...

[@davidz2690]

the EPL would no longer be the best league in the world with a salary cap. English Rugby has a cap and now France has the best league

[@PoppinC-l3w]

I don't know what the nutters above are talking about. 1/ The English pyramid pays more than any other pyramid. It's other countries who are worried about their talent going to England. 2/ If a pool of players want to play mediocre football in Saudi Arabia, that's their choice. Saudis and others aren't going to be hiring everybody. There's going to be enough players around for England and more.

[@Mu3az523]

​@@davidz2690 Based on ?

[@partlyawesome]

What a pathetic waste of public money. Let them fail, this is just the football version of 2008.

[@evieprpl]

Literally refreshed as it was uploaded

[@hurrdurrmurrgurr]

This seems like an expensive and bureaucratic way to not just implement a salary cap.

[@todortodorov6056]

Wage increases of over 3600% .... not in my job. This must be specific to footballers.

[@AmateurHEROduelist]

Yes, it is and that's what was said in the video

[@SaintGerbilUK]

Ofc Labour support that while demonising every other millionaire in the UK.

[@tulliusexmisc2191]

@@AmateurHEROduelist No, the video said it was the wages of people employed by football clubs, not just players.

[@snaggiz]

As a massive football fan, this bill is precisely what the sport needs. It’s been clear enough for long enough that the PL and its respective clubs cannot adequately self-regulate to account for all of the moving parts in this ecosystem. To put it very simply, the clubs and the PL itself need protection from themselves. It’s been clear for a long time that this hurts the sporting product for us fans, and that long term sustainability is hampered.

[@shawkorror]

He'll steal your pitches and jail you for complaining about it.

[@davedavis3746]

Government should stay out of football!

[@Anti-socialSocialClub]

As long as the prize for winning is so disproportionately high, clubs will be enticed into overspending. And if the FA forces British clubs to be financially positive then European clubs will outcompete them. The only way to stem the overspending is to have a pan European regulation.

[@amesorton]

Anything Starmer tries to do is wrong and a failure.

[@JenniferSolo-p9b]

Its tory propaganda

[@BVking509]

The FA is the football regulator, why aren't you asking. To replace the leaders of the FA

[@mnm1273]

The government isn't allowed to replace the leaders of the FA, that would get England in a lot of trouble

[@andrewjames1190]

Its ultimately a move in the right direction. But regular supporters as a percentage of the population involved in football is declining especially at grass roots level. Ultimately where people have choice they tend to go for other entertainment as choice increases. This regulation will help manage the reduction in football following until it finds its new natural level and keep it from dying. As a qualifier I mean very long term there is no issue in the next few decades for football falling apart.

[@falconmclenny7284]

Where people have choice they tend to go for other entertainment ya reckon. Bro, you can't just say stuff, and hope people will believe it's true. That's not how we argue.

[@BabsW]

Football should be the UK's official national sport

[@QuotidianStupidity]

Is it not?

[@BabsW]

@QuotidianStupidity No, it's officially Cricket

[@QuotidianStupidity]

@@BabsW wow, every day is a school day

[@JohnDoe-gc1pm]

​@@BabsWmakes sense, despite the fact that the only people who play cricket in Scotland and English, or south Asian

[@Fab666.]

Ask 95% of the country and they will say football, no way cricket 😂. I guess there’s official and then the rest of us

[@kwanlinus6999]

Waiting for UEFA and Dark Lord Ceferin to intervene

[@c3920]

Keir Starmer can’t save anything.

[@MrWhitmen1981]

The best law would be a cap on tickets😂

[@King_STSports]

"Oi... you gawt a loincense for dat footbawl club?!?!

[@RichardKing-sx6xc]

😂😅😆🤣

[@SuperGion915]

Finally a politician that tackles the real issues!

[@attiepollard7847]

I'm happy we don't have this issue in the US. The only thing that we worried about the NFL Team is going to another city

[@spoopytime9928]

This sounds like the equivalent of president Yoon(of my country) trying to do something about Lotte Giants and Hanhwa Eagles, which are baseball teams that get constantly ridiculed.

[@LostSoulNaMing]

We got politicians saving football before GTA6 💀

[@Phobosandpanic]

@1:33 why is there no data for Middlesbrough?

[@12thstreetrag]

You're ground news link doesn't work

[@VaucluseVanguard]

The biggest problem is not at national level, which is not good, but at European and world level.

[@kimemia_maina]

As a Leeds fan, the sheer cheapness that got us relegated that season has been laid bare.

[@rogercorreia6292]

Football is in a better position than politics. Politicians never make things better.

[@010Jordi]

That license to operate is the reason Dutch side vitesse Arnhem probably won't exist for much longer

[@forestfan7974]

The key error here, that was exploited this season by several clubs is the academy players being sold. A good Academy graduate is on the books at all clubs at zero value. If teams A and B swap academy players for £20 million then both clubs show a profit of $20 million on the deal So each club has players on their books that they developed and they collectively have a value of zero until sold. So this 'value of our academy players' is off the books. So Nttm. Forest sold Brennan Johnson to Spurs and his entire transfer fee was a profit. (If you looked at the chart of Championship teams, you'd see that Forest was the second worst in finances. So selling Johnson made up most of that deficit. (Too late to avoid a penalty of four points because of the delay..)

[@utieyinogedegbe147]

never thought i'd see TLDR talk aboyt football

[@mdrazzad]

Labour party leader supporting Arsenal is pretty on Brand. Both historically been Bottlers. Bottlers FC bottling another season already.

[@BlackHack-nx3pp]

Literally beat me to writing this comment myself 😂

[@danielevans5286]

Few clubs rival arsenal historically. Only United and Liverpool. Historically, Labour have given the country the NHS and policies that actually help people.

[@BlackHack-nx3pp]

@danielevans5286 think ur reading too far into this mate, but its dishonest to claim that only Labour have helped the poor too.

[@lthang2477]

​@@danielevans5286like killing a million people in Iraq. Trust starmer to support the elitist north London club. He wasn't going to support millwall,palace or spurs was he

[@ByddinRhyddidCymru]

@@danielevans5286mass immigration is a labour policy and that’s what’s pulling Britain apart at the seams, labour hate Britain and the native population, they are evil

[@Bengully]

There has got to be a blues fan at TLDR loving the representation of us in this video we truly are massive. KRO

[@NeroPiroman]

As long as city gets punished by the 115 charges everything is great

[@billfairless6256]

There are plenty of teams looking for a good striker.

[@drww1]

honestly idk why its just the english club and not all British clubs

[@grumpyjewboy2195]

Sport is a devolved issue in the UK, wales, scotland and northern ireland would have to pass their own laws for a regulator. Plus the english league is the only one that makes a significant amount of money

[@sadmanislam5111]

Until today I didn’t think I would hear politics come in to football unless it’s just for formalities.

[@s.b.7284]

You mention that this is a UK bill, yet only use English examples. Will this proposed bill affect clubs outside of England?

[@fateenshareef8716]

I wish you touched upon how money bigger than Private Equity ie Sovereign wealth funds and Gulf State money is moving into English clubs. Abu Dhabi, Saudi, are hoping to use this for sport washing. Chelsea owner was a Russian Oligarch with questionable money source and no one batted an eye until the war started. If not stopped, these clubs won't be English clubs but clubs that just play in UK

[@DukeofTxtspeak]

Have you looked at the clubs lately? They're already not English clubs. Half the players are Caribbean and the other half are Caribbean British

[@mrgreatbritain]

With the problems facing him at the minute, I think football is the last thing on his mind... plus I wouldn't trust him with it!

[@ezeant12]

Wish politicians regulated other private businesses as much as they do with football, we’ll have more tax money for the people if they did.

[@MyILoveMinecraft]

Aint gonna save english football without a 50+1 like rule

[@theshlauf]

5:44 - Just FYI, all caps with no leading is very hard to read in paragraph format. Sentence case would have been way better here.

[@nickhalden4759]

So does the IFR only apply to English football? Perhaps this could have been clarified at the video’s outset

[@Zentrum234]

Have every league negotiate their own tv deal, distribute that money to every team evenly and tie that amount to a salary cap. That way you have a spending limit and no team that has just been promoted can be outspend, just like no team that just got relegated can outspend the competition. If football does not pay attention to keep the finances of the clubs close, the sport will suffer even more.

[@mnm1273]

That would widen the gap between the Prem and Championship. And it would make promotion/relegation unsustainable because there's only so much you can do to change the wage bill year on year

[@A190xx]

Labour have proved themselves on every subject so far and here is another chance to add to that unimpressive CV. It beggars belief why this is even a priority.

[@denizb29]

Even if you pay everyone equally, nothing would change. They will spend money they don’t have

[@jonsmith5058]

As someone born in Derby, I need to copy this graph and explain why its a place I left and never looked back on and why I have no interest in domestic football.

[@Rich.Colours]

💯 Same here 😅

[@aspacelex]

These are much needed improvements that are gonna greatly improve the experience of watching Man City buy another gold.

[@gibberishname]

this is why the best team is AFC Wimbledon. Owned by the FANS

[@ChrisKatsu-]

Is the office cold?

[@DontScareTheFish]

I guess there is nothing more important that the government could and arguably should be doing

[@kathrynmarrin4410]

Yeah let him save football, keep him away from everything else 😂

[@Copyright_Infringement]

NGL, I'm just waiting for something similar to get passed in the US I suppose I'll be waiting a while

[@benmarron2545]

I think governments run best when its full of people with passions other than money and if thats football for starmer im more than happy

[@leecollins5497]

Free football on TV would make me vote labour. True story

[@hkhjg1734]

oi gov, got a license for that football team?

[@ToucanMoment]

Can you change this channel's name to "TLDR Starmer"

[@Andre-zw5kl]

Now I wander what teams are supporting TLDR

[@Hildreth1101]

Disappointed, thought this was Keir Starmer doing a playthrough of FM2025, but was just about government policy on a Culture issue.

[@gavin169]

They're nationalising football. Love it.

[@dinitis]

Does it do anything to address the fact you need 2 different subscriptions at the very lesst to watch half of the football matches played by u.k teams or the blackout every Saturday afternoon? If not what is the point.

[@BVking509]

Completely misleading the clubs in the Prem losing money is a way of investing in there club hence the rule

[@dariomeneses5756]

If football clubs can't manage their own financiers, they should fail. They don't deserve special treatment.

[@davidellis1355]

Couldn't agree more

[@dantralius9269]

That's not the problem. The problem is foreign owners who nothing about handling business coming in to championship/lower level clubs, drowning the clubs in debt, not paying players and just stealing money away from the club until it goes bust. Reading, Derby, Bolton, Wigan are all prime examples of this almost happening.

[@hattonaxeman]

How is having an industry specific regulatory body special treatment? It's not like this bill is giving football clubs handouts. All this bill does is recognise that football clubs are cultural assets and are important to a lot of people, and therefore be governed in a more responsible way

[@reheyesd8666]

Bread and circuses

[@hattonaxeman]

@reheyesd8666 I think that's fair opinion, and while I do think that was the impetus for the bill. This will mean a great deal to a great many of people. I think if this same legislation came from a private members bill instead of a manifesto commitment / the Torries, it would be more recognisable as just the government making a small change, but (hopefully) making a great deal of impact on something which a huge number of people care about which just sounds like good governance to me.

[@Tristanisthebest]

American style salary cap incoming. Spending limits tied to revenue, luxury taxes for teams over spending.

[@reubenjackson7829]

Hmm sounds like they pay players too much

[@jordonbooman9913]

This might give him a rep boost amongst the working class

[@itsthatoneguy2921]

This is probably the only trdl video that I could not finished watching. I just do not care...

[@Olivebear6223]

I never knew Rishi was so small😂

[@turkmenistan1940]

As a right winger who voted Reform I must say I appreciate this very much! Thank you Starmer

[@bigships]

Divided by politics. United by Football.

[@turkmenistan1940]

@bigships Nah not really, I think we can agree on many things problem is the left wing won't ever admit it they're running on fumes

[@farright118]

Hopefully they can safe football

[@dimitar297]

Will players be allowed to not kneel before matches how will the bill affect this issue.

[@mynameisjoejeans]

Yet another example of Jeremy Corbyn starting an important discussion over regulating football clubs, which then forced the tories to start planning this bill, only for Starmer to come in at the right time to claim it for his own.

[@PeterBowles316]

The calls for proper football governance go back many years

[@mynameisjoejeans]

@ Yeah ever since the Premier League ripped up the contract with grassroots football; but foregrounding this as a manifesto pledge doesn’t. That was the start of all the recent activity that actually went somewhere. And the Spiel about Starmer liking football after talking about being authentic is funny because both Corbyn and Sunak still attended the stands while party leader n PM respectively, but Starmer claims he needs to accept thousands in box tickets to attend because of security.

[@PeterBowles316]

@@mynameisjoejeans Wimbledon fans have been calling for it since John major was prime minister

[@mynameisjoejeans]

@@PeterBowles316 yeah, so? Lots of people have been. The prem has needed reigning in since its inception. Calling for it could go on for decades without action unless a leading political figure makes a point of committing to it. That started with Jeremy Corbyn speaking extensively about it, after helping organising for decades within local communities, commissioning economic impact reports and fan group engagement to put in the legwork before committing to it in his manifesto. The fact that calls existed before that is entirely irrelevant to my point that Starmer is being credit for something that his successor did most of the work on before being removed by him.

[@puzzp]

Hmmm, maybe we can just pay the footballers less

[@RequoAgent]

Idc anything about this, just fix the games streaming issue and prices

[@paddywaddy912]

My man is a liverpool fan? Let's go for a shisha

[@caseclosed9342]

How will this bill affect FC Richmond?

[@armandelven-dechoux5290]

This categorically isn’t the governments job. They have and always will have much more important things to worry about. There is 0 need for the government to exert this kind of control over sports. If clubs will fail, let them, they’ll learn their lesson.

[@regarded9702]

2:48 you say pounds but the screen says dollars. Basic sloppy error.

[@mohwe1007]

i wonder how Fifa will react to it personally, im all for giving the lower leagues a shot at knocking off the giants