"The worst-governed sport in Britain"

[Mawsley]

Not my words, but a quote from Sports minister Hugh Robertson MP who today welcomed the Whittingdale Report.

A video of Whittingdale's presentation can be found here.

There is a worrying trend as financial interests take hold that the game is becoming remote from the communities from which the clubs originated

Becoming?

BBC coverage

 

[fox58]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/15275218

from Oct 2011

 

[camberwell fox]

£62 fecking pounds to attend a football match, ludicrous.

 

[H T B]

£62 fecking pounds to attend a football match, ludicrous.

Yes, but they have said they are price freezing for next season

 

[Foxes_Trust]

Supporters Direct response including a link to the 143 page report, when you are wondering what to do 3pm on Saturdays

http://foxestrust.co.uk/2075/supporters-direct-backs-culture-sport-committees-findings#more-2075

 

[David Gwilliam]

Very badly governed yes. However, the number of people involved and the intense press scrutiny stop it being the worst. For the worst governed look for the sports where there are so few involved that cronyism is easier and nobody outside the sport cares.

There was an example in Taekwondo where the world number one Aaron Cook preferred to organise his own training rather than do it at the official camp. The Taekwondo authorities then decided that the world number 56 was more likely to win a medal.

The decision was so remarkable that the Olympic Standards Panel asked the British Taekwondo bosses to take a second look. The second look involved a meeting in which 5 of the 6 who made the original judgement decided that judgement was right.Perhaps the British Taekwondo bosses will have not realised that when the Olympics are involved people will notice injustices or perhaps they just are not interested.

Incidentally isn't it delicious that the World Taekwondo Federation has the initial WTF.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/ol...ce-to-win-taekwondo-gold-at-Rio-Olympics.html

 

[Macky]

Incidentally isn't it delicious that the World Taekwondo Federation has the initial WTF.

The Leicestershire Ornithology League sometimes raises a smirk with me, but never an actual full blown belly-laugh

 

[Ike O'Noclassed]

.... The Taekwondo authorities then decided that the world number 56 was more likely to win a medal.

... which he did.

 

[Blaarev]

... which he did.

 

[fox58]

i hear cash strapped Pompey charged Carlise £20 to park the team bus on Saturday

 

[Hazzman]

i hear cash strapped Pompey charged Carlise £20 to park the team bus on Saturday

It was one of Pompey's former owners.

 

[Jeff]

i hear cash strapped Pompey charged Carlise £20 to park the team bus on Saturday

They didn't. The company that owns the car park did. Portsmouth staff also have to pay to park.