Write to letters@thetimes.co.ukSir, Martin Samuel (“The Premier League doesn’t need a regulator”, Jan 13) is right that a more interesting feature of English football than its occasional bankruptcies is the survival of so many original clubs when the industries those towns were built on have disappeared. However, in his enjoyably provocative piece complaining that the introduction of a football regulator stems from a government predisposed to over-regulation, he makes no mention of the Football Association, the sanctioning body of the Premier League and its de facto regulator. Leaving aside the fact that the present proposal was introduced by the last Tory government, and that “the former MP Tracey Crouch” was, more explicitly, a former Conservative minister, English football has always had a

Source: The Times January 15, 2025 02:24 UTC