Reclaiming football for all: presenting the manifesto for a better game

Never mind the Premier League climax or the FA Cup final, the outcome of May’s general election can reshape the domestic game. The Football Action Network’s manifesto for change – This Game is Our Game – puts forward principles aimed at reclaiming and transforming football

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You might be thinking that late May is the time when footballing fates will be decided rather than on 7 May, when no games are currently scheduled. The promotion play-offs, the final weekend of the Premier League and the FA Cup final will be still to come. But beyond this season, the shape of the national game is going to be framed on 7 May by the outcome of the general election.

In part because all of the political parties are going into this election with at least a nod to the game. Some have more detailed legislative proposals. But, more importantly, we have reached a point where the transformation of the game by commercial and private interests has worn the fabric and culture of football so thin that only a major intervention by government can begin to stop this process.

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