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That brings me to my final point. There is also a clause stand part notice in my name and that of my noble friend Lord Parkinson, looking to remove Clause 22 in its entirety. A concern has been brought to me by many clubs. When I say clubs, I mean the Brightons and Brentfords of the world, which I think we would all agree are model clubs and exactly the sorts of clubs we want to support so that they thrive. There is a stage in their life when they are like any start-up business; you are investing and your costs will be higher than your revenue. That is exactly what those clubs did. They invested in players and had a good plan behind it. You could say, at that stage, that they were unsustainable.