GREATER MANCHESTER

Club supported: Everton

“I’m happy to support Fair Game. Their proposals are exactly what football needs."

LIVERPOOL CITY REGION

Club supported: Liverpool

“We need to safeguard the integrity of the pyramid and put community back at the heart of football again. The Fair Game campaign help to provide the blueprint for that.”

HACKNEY NORTH AND STOKE NEWINGTON
Labour MP

PUTNEY
Labour MP

Club supported: TBC

GOWER
Labour MP

Club supported: TBC

WEST WORCESTERSHIRE
Conservative MP

Club Supported: Worcester City

LIVERPOOL WAVERTREE
Labour MP

WEST DERBY
Labour MP

Club supported: Liverpool

LIVERPOOL WALTON
Labour MP

ROTHERHAM
Labour MP

STOCKTON NORTH

SLOUGH
Labour MP

BOLTON NORTH EAST
Labour MP

WESTMORLAND & LONSDALE
Liberal Democrat MP

Club supported: Blackburn Rovers

LEWISHAM DEPTFORD
Labour MP

Club supported: Millwall

DULWICH & WEST NORWOOD
Labour MP

Club supported: Dulwich Hamlet

BATH
Liberal Democrat MP

Club supported: Bath City

LUTON SOUTH
Labour MP

Club supported: Luton Town

NEWPORT WEST
Labour MP

BATLEY & SPEN
Labour MP

ELLESMERE PORT & NESTON
Labour MP

EPSOM & EWELL
Liberal Democrat MP

YORK CENTRAL
Labour MP

BRISTOL EAST
Labour MP

MITCHAM AND MORDEN
Labour MP

Club supported: AFC Wimbledon

WIRRAL SOUTH
Labour MP

Club supported: Liverpool

NEWPORT EAST
Labour MP

Club supported: Newport County AFC

GRIMSBY
Labour MP

(pictured left with Polly Bancroft)

CHESTERFIELD & STAVELEY
Labour MP

BOLTON SOUTH EAST
Labour MP

Club supported: Bolton Wanderers

MANCHESTER WITHINGTON
Labour MP

Club supported: Manchester City

ALYN & DEESIDE
Labour MP

TONBRIDGE
Conservative MP

Club supported: Tonbridge Angels

WALSALL SOUTH
Labour MP

ROCHDALE
Labour MP

(pictured right with Simon Gauge)

BEDFORD
Labour MP

CAMBRIDGE
Labour MP

Club supported: Cambridge United

WINDERMERE
Labour

Club supported: Carlisle United

"Fair Game is bringing together ‘like-minded’ clubs to call for change and I fully support that.”

BUCKINGHAM
Liberal Democrat

Club supported: Liverpool

“The time to have a look at football is here and I give my support to Fair Game in identifying problems and more importantly finding solutions that will allow game to flourish in the modern world.”

MAIDENHEAD
Conservative

Club supported: AFC Wimbledon

"Football clubs are businesses but, more importantly, they hold a special place in our communities. And that is why I'm backing Fair Game."

BOLTON
Labour

Club supported: Bolton Wanderers

”I wholeheartedly support the aims of Fair Game to protect football and football clubs for all fans.”

Motion passed: 1 November 2021

Liberal Democrat Cllr Chris Hogg said: “Kendal has kicked off a debate that every town hall in this country should be having. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to safeguard and strengthen football clubs as civic and community assets and to avoid some of the disasters that have arisen from inadequate oversight and dubious decision making.”

Motion passed: 15 December 2021

Liberal Democrat Councillor Sam Al-Hamdani, said: “I’m a City fan – I was there when we were losing games in the third tier, and I have seen us ride the rollercoaster all the way to the top. As much as I love watching the great players it has brought to my club, I don’t think that the way football works is even close to fair. I have friends who support Macclesfield Town. I have friends who support Bury FC. Clubs that have failed, and which have ripped the heart out of those towns when they went into meltdown. Too many teams are too close to doing the same elsewhere. The Fair Game manifesto proposes practical measures which will refocus football clubs on the score and not on their profit margins, and which recognise that fans and not sovereign wealth funds should come first.”

Motion passed: 13 February 2022

Conservative Cllr Ben Shirley, who represents Dalton North, said: “The financial model of football is broken. It is fans, and the local communities who suffer as a result of the broken model. That’s why I worked together with Cllr Will Clark to present the motion to council calling on Tracey Crouch MP’s fantastic fan led review into football to be implemented in full. so that clubs like Barrow AFC, Carlisle United, Workington Town, Kendal Town, and Penrith amongst the hundreds upon hundreds of grassroots clubs like Dalton Utd, and Askam Utd May have a prosperous and sustainable future.”

Motion passed: 11 January 2022

Liberal Democrat Cllr Thom Campion, who represents Castle Ward, said: “I’m so proud that Newcastle City Councul have unamisoisly agreed to become the first major city to sign up to the Fair Game manifesto, hopefully leading the way across the county. Local football teams are more than just a sporting club - in so many ways they are the beating heart of our local area. Newcastle has a rich footballing heritage, something our city should be proud of and with new owners taking control of Newcastle United, there has never been a better time to push for investment into the grassroots. Together we can push to make football a fairer game for all.”

Motion passed: 6 April 2022

Conservative Cllr Ashley Dearnley, who represents the ward of Wardle and West Littleborough, said: “I am delighted that the Council unanimously backed my motion. Football clubs such as Rochdale are at the heart of our town. We need a better set up. The current situation fails to protect the interests of fans. Without a better system of governance, many clubs are at risk, as we have seen in neighbouring Bury. We need urgent change."

Motion passed: 13 July 2022

Labour Cllr Mark Wilson, who represents Ulverston East, said: “It is about football, but more importantly about Community values for all. Everyone should be able to benefit from the big bucks income of the professional game.”

Motion passed: 27 January 2022

Conservative Cllr Ally Simcock, who represents Sandford Hill ward, said: “I am extremely proud to have been successful in proposing Stoke on Trent City Council to become a Fair Game council. Standing up for fans’ values and demonstrating commitment to support our football heritage is of utmost importance to our city.”

Motion passed: 22 February 2022

Liberal Democrat Cllr Garry Bridge, who represents Vauxhall ward, said: “I'm delighted that by passing this motion councillors from all parties on Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council have recognised the importance of our local football clubs to our borough. The proposals set out in Tracy Crouch's review of football should be implemented as soon as possible."

Motion passed: 12 May 2023

Council leader Conservative Cllr Lezley Picton said: “I know what it’s like, what that heartache is like, when your football club is badly managed – mismanaged – and in my case, as a proud Portsmouth supporter, twice. These days football is used to improve inclusivity, to improve mental health, to improve fitness and combat loneliness, to improve confidence and get people back into work, and to help people who have found education a challenge. Football is being used as a real positive – positive for individuals, communities and society – and you only have to look at the brilliant outreach programmes that are offered by all of our football clubs across the county to see how important they are to their communities. But what happens when this goes wrong? Following the pandemic, many teams outside the Premier League are struggling financially, and if you add mismanagement into that, you have a situation that could threaten the very existence of the club. I’m not saying for one minute that any of our football clubs are financially mismanaged, in fact it’s the opposite, but they need the football wealth to be spread more fairly through the leagues.”