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I am chairman of an educational think tank and, once a year, for many years, we published a list of all the things that people thought should be taught in schools. There were about 200 new ideas every year—kids should be taught gardening, or emotional intelligence. If you try to do that, you move away from being able to teach kids how to read, write, add up and become useful citizens in the world. It is the same with football clubs. If you put all of these things into the Bill—gambling, EDI, whatever—you then have to think about the board that does not have the time to focus on whether it has the right team and is hiring the right players, whether the coach is any good, how the team is doing, or if the staff are happy. There will be none of that. The board will spend most of its time, as is the case for many boards nowadays, talking about which of the many regulators, including this new football regulator, it has to satisfy. The board will lose focus and it will crowd out useful activity.