Hugh Robertson: Why I've changed tactics to help football put its house in order

Evening Standard

When I spoke to Hugh Robertson exactly 12 months ago he promised that, if the Tories won the election, football would have only a few months to put its house in order.

"If, by the end of the summer, the Football Association, the Premier League and the Football League have not come up with a proper plan to address [the game's main] issues, then the Government will have to step in. One of the options would be an independent regulator to run the game," he told Standard Sport.

Since then, if anything, he admits, things have got worse.