New football regulator could see teams thrown out of the league and stadiums closed down – the game doesn’t need it

FOOTBALL has flourished for a century and a half.

It is the world’s biggest sport and certainly one of its greater preoccupations.

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It is loved by players, ­spectators, TV viewers and children from an early age.

It gives £8billion to the Treasury every year.

And it provides livelihoods, dreams and dramas, excitement and disappointments.