Tracey Crouch

But Downing Street came to my team doing competition policy and said, is competition law something that we can use to stop this? And that led to a five year journey to this conversation today.

But basically, Tracey Crouch was the former sports minister.

She was asked to come in and lead this review, the fan-led review, and take a root and branch analysis of the regulation and governance of English football.

And it was a manifesto commitment.

I always get this wrong.

And Tracy Crouch always has a go at me for getting the club name wrong.

The London City Lionesses.

I always get the words in the wrong order.

I have played quite a unique role in the development of the independent regulator, so...

I worked on Tracy Crouch's independent fan led review as an advisor to Tracy.

I then took the legislation through parliament for the football governance act and led the brilliant bill team that did that.

And then for six months, I was a senior advisor to David Cogan, the chair of the IFR.

Yeah, I think, I'm not a political scientist, but I think probably the latter there.

I think he probably saw just how much vitriol there was towards this.

And then he came up against Tracy Crouch as well.

So anyone who underestimates Tracy is in for a shock.