| The Labour Party & Football Governance 22:40 - Oct 6 with 10597 views | BazzaInTheLoft |
Corbyn: Football clubs are ‘too important to be left in the hands of bad owners’
The Labour leader promises to empower fans over how their clubs are run
Jeremy Corbyn, Newcastle MP Chi Onwurah (centre right) and Labour Party chair Ian Lavery (centre left) meet NUFC Ashley Out supporters after his speech at the Newcastle City Hall
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn is to call for football fans to be given a much greater say on how their clubs are run, promising that a Labour government would empower fans and communities and review football governance.
Football clubs are “too important to be left in the hands of bad owners,” Corbyn said at the weekend after meeting with Newcastle United Football Club fans campaigning against the club’s owner Mike Ashley.
“A football club is more than just a club, it is an institution at the heart of our communities. Clubs are part of the social fabric that binds us together.”
The Arsenal season ticket holder said “bad owners like Mike Ashley... put their business interests ahead of everything else, marginalise supporters and even put the financial security of clubs at risk.
“Sport must be run in the interests of those who participate in it, follow it and love it, not just for the privileged and wealthy few.
“We will ensure that supporters have a say over how their club is run and review how fans can have more of a say about how all of our sporting bodies are run.”
Under the party’s new plans football supporters’ trusts would be able to purchase shares when clubs change hands and have the power to appoint, and fire, at least two members of a club’s board of directors.
Labour says it has also pledged to review fan participation in sports governance at all levels, and ensure that the Premier League invests 5 per cent of the income it receives for television rights into grassroots football to improve facilities and pitches and support the next generation of players and coaches.
Corbyn also called on football clubs to guarantee to pay their staff the living wage, ban zero-hours contracts and improve access provision for disabled sports fans.
The party’s plans also include cracking down on ticket-tout websites which vastly inflated match day prices, and implement the consumer protection measures outlined in the 2016 Waterson Review.
Women’s sporting events, including the Women’s Football World, will be added to the list of key sporting events to be broadcast free-to-air, the party said.
Labour’s Community Organising Unit is currently working with Newcastle United Football Club fans to organise against billionaire owner Mike Ashley, with thousands of fans boycotting the club’s games in protest against the greedy billionaire. |  | | |  |
| The Labour Party & Football Governance on 18:24 - Oct 11 with 1854 views | R_from_afar |
| The Labour Party & Football Governance on 18:53 - Oct 9 by stevec |
Ha ha ha, that's a cop out Baz and you know it.
So the supporters on the Board get all the benefits without ever having to dip into their own pockets when things go a bit pear shaped. Seriously, what planet are you on.
Do you guys in your party EVER take financial responsibility for anything?? It must be a wonderful world your mind inhabits, where you get to spend everybody else's money but never your own. |
In other news, the latest forecasts indicate that our current government are on course to take our borrowing to levels not seen since the 1960s..... |  |
| "Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1." |
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| The Labour Party & Football Governance on 18:59 - Oct 11 with 1835 views | QPR_Jim |
| The Labour Party & Football Governance on 18:17 - Oct 11 by QPR_John |
Well that is well known a politician trying to show he is "normal" is always embarrassing. But it is still not a source of the statement that ALL Tories do not know the difference. So I repeat what is the source. |
Chill out John, it was raised just to highlight the difference between a politician talking about football to try and protect football clubs and a politician talking about football to try and make himself seem relatable (and failing miserably). It was tongue in cheek, should have realised that ALL Tories can't take a joke.  |  | | |
| The Labour Party & Football Governance on 19:04 - Oct 11 with 1832 views | DylanP |
Corbyn supports something and so everyone feels obliged to immediately jump to their corners; attacking or defending the notion based, not on the merits, but rather the messenger.
Look, the Labour Party is the party of the working class and football is largely a working class game so naturally the Labour Party with have the same sort of ideas on football as most football fans. Its exactly the same sort of stuff that is on here all the time. Now Corbyn is saying it, all of a sudden people who were advocating for it a while ago are now finding fault, and vice versa. The ideas expressed by the Labour Party and by people on this messageboard are never going to be fully coherent or finished. Fans should have more say in the clubs. Unchecked big money is ruining the game. These are things that everyone on here agrees with in spite of who is saying the, |  |
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| The Labour Party & Football Governance on 21:56 - Oct 11 with 1785 views | QPR_John |
| The Labour Party & Football Governance on 18:59 - Oct 11 by QPR_Jim |
Chill out John, it was raised just to highlight the difference between a politician talking about football to try and protect football clubs and a politician talking about football to try and make himself seem relatable (and failing miserably). It was tongue in cheek, should have realised that ALL Tories can't take a joke. |
Then why not say Cameron I've no problem with that. |  | | |
| The Labour Party & Football Governance on 22:01 - Oct 11 with 1779 views | Miss_Terraces |
| The Labour Party & Football Governance on 21:56 - Oct 11 by QPR_John |
Then why not say Cameron I've no problem with that. |
You had no problem voting for a party headed by a pig Fu(ker. Don't make out you have standards  | |
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| The Labour Party & Football Governance on 22:03 - Oct 11 with 1771 views | QPR_John |
| The Labour Party & Football Governance on 22:01 - Oct 11 by Miss_Terraces |
You had no problem voting for a party headed by a pig Fu(ker. Don't make out you have standards |
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| The Labour Party & Football Governance on 22:05 - Oct 11 with 1766 views | Miss_Terraces |
| The Labour Party & Football Governance on 22:03 - Oct 11 by QPR_John |
Source |
Come on Bazza, I know you won't let me down | |
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| The Labour Party & Football Governance on 22:20 - Oct 11 with 1745 views | BazzaInTheLoft |
| The Labour Party & Football Governance on 22:05 - Oct 11 by Miss_Terraces |
Come on Bazza, I know you won't let me down |
To be fair he fvcked a lot more PIP claimants than he did Pigs. | | | |
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| The Labour Party & Football Governance on 22:32 - Oct 11 with 1722 views | QPR_John |
| The Labour Party & Football Governance on 22:05 - Oct 11 by Miss_Terraces |
Come on Bazza, I know you won't let me down |
Does Bazza know how I voted???? | | | |
| The Labour Party & Football Governance on 22:33 - Oct 11 with 1723 views | QPR_Jim |
| The Labour Party & Football Governance on 21:56 - Oct 11 by QPR_John |
Then why not say Cameron I've no problem with that. |
Ok, Cameron can't take a joke.
Now wait there while I get my sources verified.
Don't take it personally John, it's just frustrating that something that should be fairly popular to football fans and sounds familiar to what a lot say on here all the time is treated as a bad idea just because a certain person says it. Even if you don't like him you'd imagine that people would agree with it in principle even if just in a "even a broke clock is right twice a day" kind of way. But instead we get comments about rich owners should essentially be able to act as dictators and that the premier League is better than German football because there's more money in it. Like making people like John Terry a multi millionaire is something that we should be pleased with.
Anyway he'll never get in so you can like the odd policy here or there, go on treat yourself. | | | |
| The Labour Party & Football Governance on 22:42 - Oct 11 with 1709 views | Miss_Terraces |
| The Labour Party & Football Governance on 22:32 - Oct 11 by QPR_John |
Does Bazza know how I voted???? |
Of course not but it's extremely rare for a non-tory, to defend the Tories. You can not have a go at people, for making assumptions. | |
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| The Labour Party & Football Governance on 22:42 - Oct 11 with 1707 views | QPR_John |
| The Labour Party & Football Governance on 22:33 - Oct 11 by QPR_Jim |
Ok, Cameron can't take a joke.
Now wait there while I get my sources verified.
Don't take it personally John, it's just frustrating that something that should be fairly popular to football fans and sounds familiar to what a lot say on here all the time is treated as a bad idea just because a certain person says it. Even if you don't like him you'd imagine that people would agree with it in principle even if just in a "even a broke clock is right twice a day" kind of way. But instead we get comments about rich owners should essentially be able to act as dictators and that the premier League is better than German football because there's more money in it. Like making people like John Terry a multi millionaire is something that we should be pleased with.
Anyway he'll never get in so you can like the odd policy here or there, go on treat yourself. |
"Ok, Cameron can't take a joke. "
He also does not even know the difference between West Ham and Aston Villa. [Post edited 11 Oct 2019 22:43]
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| The Labour Party & Football Governance on 22:45 - Oct 11 with 1698 views | QPR_John |
| The Labour Party & Football Governance on 22:42 - Oct 11 by Miss_Terraces |
Of course not but it's extremely rare for a non-tory, to defend the Tories. You can not have a go at people, for making assumptions. |
Oh I can it really is fun especially when your premise is wrong. Where have I defended the Tories in this thread. [Post edited 11 Oct 2019 22:47]
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| The Labour Party & Football Governance on 14:39 - Oct 14 with 1564 views | stevec |
‘The seat in front of you doesn’t go above your ankles’.
Clearly Rosena didn’t venture into our stands while she was there. |  | | |
| The Labour Party & Football Governance on 15:21 - Oct 14 with 1533 views | BazzaInTheLoft |
| The Labour Party & Football Governance on 14:39 - Oct 14 by stevec |
‘The seat in front of you doesn’t go above your ankles’.
Clearly Rosena didn’t venture into our stands while she was there. |
Probably still has a better attendance record than you Steve. | | | |
| The Labour Party & Football Governance on 20:45 - Oct 18 with 1375 views | Ned_Kennedys |
Totally irrelevant what Jeremy Corben plans for anything as there is more chance that Nigel Farage will be the next PM as it stands. |  | | |
| The Labour Party & Football Governance on 00:51 - Apr 19 with 1000 views | BazzaInTheLoft |
Bump | | | |
| The Labour Party & Football Governance on 08:22 - Apr 19 with 865 views | gazza1 |
Corbyn and football.....no thanks. Leave him to continue doing a great job with the Labour party. | | | |
| The Labour Party & Football Governance on 08:55 - Apr 19 with 817 views | stevec |
| The Labour Party & Football Governance on 15:21 - Oct 14 by BazzaInTheLoft |
Probably still has a better attendance record than you Steve. |
Only just noticed this slur being ‘out there’ for six months.
Well if Rosena goes to all the home games* and the away games below Luton (excluding Wales, naturally) she’ll also need to venture into Northern Territory to out attend my good self.
Lockdown accepted* | | | |
| The Labour Party & Football Governance on 11:14 - Apr 19 with 730 views | gingerranger |
| The Labour Party & Football Governance on 08:55 - Apr 19 by stevec |
Only just noticed this slur being ‘out there’ for six months.
Well if Rosena goes to all the home games* and the away games below Luton (excluding Wales, naturally) she’ll also need to venture into Northern Territory to out attend my good self.
Lockdown accepted* |
I challenge you to a lockdown!! |  | | |
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