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Sir John Smith wasn't forced on BHA - it was arbitration and thus agreed by the board at the time. Note you haven't answered the bit about TB giving up part of the club ?

Oh dear Paddy ( that should really be Herr ! ) - you're so blinded by Labour spin. Comparing a PLC ( HSBC ) to an limited company ( like a majority of the 92 clubs ) is hardly like for like. Ed 'I'm clueless' Milliband has as much chance of implementing this as he does his energy price freeze...

Corrected it for you.

a. Tax break b. Indeed they do. Are you really suggesting that TB should give up part ownership of said companies ? It also raises the question of what company Labour want to give to the fans ? No director was forced on B&H Albion FC Ltd by arbitration - they don't have the power to do that.

I think you're confusing PLCs with LTDs - so if you owned say a company employing a couple of people and turning over say £500k a year you would be happy to have the government FORCE a director ( who you may not need ) on you and FORCE you to sell up to 10% of your business to a customer even if...

Let's turn that around and say you personally own your own company ( and a majority of football clubs are private companies ), how would you feel if you were forced by the government to have one of your customers as one of your directors ? Or indeed to sell part of your company to said customer ?

Unless it's to overrule the no standing rules or no drinking within sight of the pitch rules ! :thumbsup:

... http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/29652317 I'm all for fan representation but how do they really think they can force private limited companies to select their board members to at least contain a fan or indeed for a private company to be forced to part with some of the ownership to the...