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English fans want an independent regulator – here's how it could help save clubs from ruin

Written by Mark Middling, Senior Lecturer in Accounting, Northumbria University, Newcastle

Bolton Wanderers celebrating promotion to League One in 2021.Shuttterstock/Jake Kirkman

Football clubs are not like other businesses. Their primary aim is not to make a profit, but to win matches.

Research shows this creates a conflict between sporting goals on the one hand, and the logic of business on the other. This in turn can result in what one...

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