The coming days and weeks will bring the moment that sees English football forced to embrace change. The is expected imminently, crystallizing the key recommendations proposed by the exhaustive fan-led review of the national sport’s governance. Those in power have now concluded that football can not carry on as it was.
Increased regulation, despite the Premier League’s lobbying, will finally be introduced in 2023.
A grading system by which every club is judged on financial sustainability, governance, fan engagement and equality standards.
Each of those was weighted to present an overall score for every Premier League and Championship club, with financial sustainability carrying the greatest value of the four.