Member

Amendment 70, which seeks to protect the women’s game from the adverse impacts of the Bill, raises a revealing point. By proposing such a safeguard, the amendment implicitly recognises the likelihood that the Bill could have a dampening effect on the investment in football, providing less money in the pot to share. That is a concern that I share. The women’s game is at a crucial stage of growth, where it needs the freedom to attract investment and build its commercial potential. The very last thing it needs is to be encumbered by the unintended consequences of regulation designed for a different set of challenges in the men’s game.