Gregor ROBERTSON
FOOTBALLER TURNED JOURNALIST

Self-regulation has failed. The time for an independent regulator is here. Two stories in football from the past week or so underlined why.
The first was news that the proposed “New Deal” for football — a new formula for increased wealth redistribution throughout the English Pyramid — had collapsed after months of intense discussions between the Premier League and the EFL.
The Premier League is currently sharing £1.6 billion with the Pyramid over a three-year period. That sounds like an eye-watering figure, right? Sure, until you realise that t...