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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Nick Lester

UNCOVERED: Officials must get off bums and quickly set up football regulator blunkett - Caught on Camera

Civil servants need to “get off their bums” and make sure a new independent football regulator is up and running this autumn amid the “unfolding Greek tragedy” at crisis-hit Sheffield Wednesday, former home secretary and club supporter David Blunkett has said.

The plea was made by the Labour peer and one-time MP in the South Yorkshire city after plans to establish a watchdog for the game became law.

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