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Fair enough, and that's great to hear, but housing associations presumably want and encourage that management structure, I'm not sure the shareholders of football clubs feel the same.

You're not going wrong, I think it is an ideal, as is a more equitable distribution of wealth, eradication of poverty and discimination, and steps taken to prevent the extinction of thousands of species of animal each year. But sadly none of those are likely either. The opportunity to make...

1: I think 99.99% of fans would pass the test, as do 99.99% of directors. You can hear me discussing this with Adrian Goldberg on Five Live Investigates at 11am Sunday morning (shameless plug). 2: Swansea City is 20% owned by the supporters trust, and that works well IMO, but the other...

I don't think anything is practical TBH. With 40% foreign ownership of the Premier League, there is no way clubs there are going to agree to these rules without a fight. There is then the legal problem of Manchester United not being a UK company, so they wouldn't be subject to UK law...

1: Because who is going to choose the fans representative? Should it be STH, anyone who has been to a match in the last five years, members of the official supporters club? Do these people have to have any formal qualifications in terms of experience at board level? There will be an almighty bun...

But in this case it's not the Labour party having due consideration for the welfare of the staff, the fans, or indeed a class struggle, it's a cynical grab for votes which has been poorly thought through in terms of what it delivers and how it would be delivered.

It's not going to improve football?

I've just been interviewed by the local media up here in the land of whippets, and have said something similar