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The truth is that football has proved itself extraordinarily sustainable and resilient. In the more than 30 years since the Premier League came into existence, which started an era of extraordinary growth and success for English football in the world, it has gone through the global financial crash and Covid, with footballers playing to empty stadiums across the country. It has then been through the energy crisis caused by the invasion of Ukraine, and football has not only survived but continued to flourish. Sustainability is a very unambitious target or purpose for something like English football, which has seen such spectacular growth and success. We should want at the very least to see growth and success imported into the purpose of the Bill, so that it may have a chance of encouraging the regulator to see that as its purpose as well.