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When Dame Tracey completed her review, she talked about the backstop as being a genuine last-resort backstop. We have already seen how the prospect of a much more interventionist approach has enabled parts of the pyramid to start to game the process in a way, hoping that, as a result of a deadlock, the 7th cavalry will ride over the hill to change the outcome. I hope that the Government will take this away. This is at the heart of so many of the concerns around what the Bill is about. To be frank, my dread is that we are doing something that will make less of this amazing thing—English football—instead of what should be the outcome, which is making more of it.