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Post by charlielsports on Jul 12, 2023 10:34:49 GMT
On the 17th of July, Fair Game will release its much anticipated and needed ‘Fair Game Index’.
The Index will rank all 92 Premier League and EFL clubs, using 4 criteria, taken from Tracey Crouch's Fan-Led Review; financial sustainability, governance, fan engagement and equality standards.
Using Fair Game’s Index, those who are well-run would be rewarded financially according to their performance against the 4 criteria. The funds to reward our well-run clubs would be collected from Premier League transfer levies and a fairer distribution of the current astronomical TV revenues.
In recent times, a large proportion of football clubs seem to have been run through a ‘boom or bust’ nature, putting at risk the livelihoods of those working at our clubs and the clubs themselves, which often act as an anchor of the local community. In 2019, Bury FC, who had 125 years in the Football League, were expelled from the EFL and dissolved due to bankruptcy. Meanwhile in 2020, Macclesfield Town received a winding-up order which ended their 146 year-old history with English football.
Fair Game's Index and its proposed new distribution of funding would put an end to that gambling culture and reward well-run clubs.
Find out how your did by going to the Fair Game website on July the 17th. If you register you can also see how much they would get from the proposed funding model. Please also write to your MP or local Councillor and ask them to support the creation of an Independent Regulator for English Football, or ask your club to become a Fair Game Club.
Together we can create a fairer future for football.
[https://www.fairgameuk.org]
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Post by tonyd on Jul 12, 2023 11:53:27 GMT
We have independent regulators for many areas of life in this country. But we still have sewage in our rivers, spiralling energy prices, banks making excess profits by not passing on interest increases to savers and ever diminishing levels of service from the NHS.
What makes anyone think a regulator appointed by this Government would be of any benefit? I'd much rather the FA was given greater powers to regulate the game in this country, as they were created to do.
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Post by markf on Jul 12, 2023 12:07:45 GMT
Isn't that why the call for an independent regulator by some has been made though?
Because the various football bodies in England haven't done the greatest of jobs.
Most recently Fleetwood's chair was banged up for fleecing people thus, allegedly, funding that football club through the profits from crime?
Various other owners who passed the "fitness test" have proven to be far from that.
And now the FA Cup, the very fabric of English football is under even greater attack than before just to satisfy the top clubs.
I am neither for or against but to suggest an appointed body by any Government may be worse than those bodies currently running our game doesn't stack up at the moment. Not until they too fail anyway.
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Post by tonyd on Jul 12, 2023 13:37:32 GMT
How independent is a government appointed regulator? As independent as the recently appointed, and now resigned, chairman of the BBC?
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Post by markf on Jul 12, 2023 14:55:22 GMT
I doubt any government would consider football as quite the same level as the public broadcaster.
Powerful perhaps but not as much as the BBC.
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Post by toothman on Jul 12, 2023 15:09:31 GMT
depending on how the scoring is done (and assuming they have enough data on us as a fledgling EFL club) we could end up top of the league, as we must be the best run, most above board club there is?
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Post by boomboom on Jul 13, 2023 7:58:24 GMT
depending on how the scoring is done (and assuming they have enough data on us as a fledgling EFL club) we could end up top of the league, as we must be the best run, most above board club there is? I hope so but would also expect 100% fans-owned clubs to be at or very near the top.
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Post by boomboom on Jul 13, 2023 8:07:05 GMT
depending on how the scoring is done (and assuming they have enough data on us as a fledgling EFL club) we could end up top of the league, as we must be the best run, most above board club there is? I hope so but would also expect 100% fans-owned clubs to be at or very near the top. Some (all?) of the four metrics are going to be very difficult to measure and, I'd imagine, could prove controversial.
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Post by brisfitboy on Jul 16, 2023 21:31:59 GMT
Just logged in and see that we are 12th in the table smack Inn the middle of League 2. Hartlepool are top and Wimbledon are bottom so make what you can out of that 🤷🏼♂️
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Post by brisfitboy on Jul 16, 2023 21:35:30 GMT
Just logged in and see that we are 12th in the table smack Inn the middle of League 2. Hartlepool are top and Wimbledon are bottom so make what you can out of that 🤷🏼♂️ And Inn was not a reference to a pub team but that bloody predict text again 🤦♂️
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Post by jr on Jul 17, 2023 9:03:10 GMT
No idea how they've worked this out but Rochdale 4th with a financial sustainability score of 23.50!!!
Our fan engagement score is rather low which is very surprising to me.
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Post by davef on Jul 17, 2023 9:49:20 GMT
We had a discussion with another similar ranking scheme last year. They have a fairly rigid marking scheme, doing things in a different way can sometimes gain no credit.
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Post by boomboom on Jul 17, 2023 9:49:42 GMT
Just logged in and see that we are 12th in the table smack Inn the middle of League 2. Hartlepool are top and Wimbledon are bottom so make what you can out of that 🤷🏼♂️It seems that the latest report has been released today and according to this link Wimbledon are top and Hartlepool bottom with overall scores of 73.58 and 14.60 respectively! U's are 13th with a score of 39.06.
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Post by boomboom on Jul 17, 2023 9:52:24 GMT
No idea how they've worked this out but Rochdale 4th with a financial sustainability score of 23.50!!! Our fan engagement score is rather low which is very surprising to me. I've spent some time trawling through their website but cannot find anything about the methodology except "The four criteria are weighted: 40% financial measures; 30% governance; 20% fan engagement; 10% equality standards. Each of the criteria is developed from dozens of touchpoints, creating the most comprehensive analysis of teams at the top end of the English football pyramid. The weighting was settled on my Fair Game's team of experts. However, the Index is built on an ethos of constant improvement and the weighting will always be under review."Nor can I find a contact point to ask.
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Post by pinewalker on Jul 17, 2023 15:29:06 GMT
I guess it begins in the primary school playground. An attitude that the holders have which allows the holders to believe that they know better how to run your life than you do. At the national level it is exhibited by the leaders of one-party states. Since they are right, ergo any opponents must be wrong, so there is no point in allowing an election. Nor will they put their record up for scrutiny, preferring to de-platform opponents and brand awkward facts as disinformation. So here the same attitude is coming to football. Note they are not proposing to set up a separate structure and populate it only with ‘ethical’ clubs. No, they want to interfere with your club and your league. Who are ‘fair game’? Has their team of experts subjected themselves to election? No. Have they put their method of appraisal up for debate and peer group review. No. Is their opinion of the football you experience worth more than your opinion. Well that is your decision not theirs.
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