Member

He then has Amendment 52 as well. Under those circumstances, it is relevant, as I have said persistently, to ensure that there is clear identification of the impact on the clubs, more specifically than saying that this will be proportionate. We need to adopt a frame of mind that ensures that the regulator is acting beneficially to football in general and not imposing undue burdens on our clubs that are not faced by other clubs around the world, with whom we will have to compete not only in tournaments, to which I have just referred, but for television rights and international funds. Without that frame of mind, we will not have a Premier League of which we can be rightly proud. With those opening comments, I beg to move my noble friend Lord Maude’s amendment.