What could Andy Burnham as Prime Minister mean for sport?

Burnham has not shied away from clashes with the Premier League and football authorities.

In 2023, he wrote to the Premier League that Everton should be penalized 10-points for profiteering and breaches of sustainability rules. declared “null and void”.

There should be no worries about the future of the independent football regulator established by Nandy and whose powers have only just begun to take hold.

In 2020, Burnham co-authored the A manifesto for change called ‘Saving Our Beautiful Game’.

It made several recommendations, including “an effective and independent body to oversee the financial regulation of games”.

Burnham has long been involved with fans’ groups and founded Supporters Direct, one of the pioneers of football supporters’ associations.

He supports expansion of fan ownership and representation in 2022 Creating a taskforce for fans to buy Oldham Athletic., outsider

The club was eventually bought by local businessman Frank Rothwell, with the supporters’ foundation taking a 3% shareholding and a seat on the board.

With Burnham long a critic of the negative impact of gambling, unlicensed casinos may be banned from sponsoring sports teams.

A An eight-week consultation has opened, outsider to consider the proposal. Burnham has a link with Everton’s Stake.com, a crypto casino without a license to operate in the UK.

Burnham was also a staunch supporter of justice for the victims of the Hillsborough disaster.

His work as an MP led in part to the Hillsborough Act, which was passed last week and intended to prevent cover-ups linked to state failure.

While Burham was at DCMS he ordered the first review of “crown jewel” sporting events in 10 years.

It recommended that the home Ashes cricket series be made free-to-view, but this was scrapped when Labor lost power in 2010.

Sir Keir Starmer’s government recently proposed new legislation Block streaming and catch-up rights behind a paywall For UK viewers.