Fair Game Index flags football’s finest as football enters last chance saloon

FAIR GAME today revealed the top clubs in the English football pyramid in an exclusive video (above). The Fair Game Index rated the top 92 clubs in the pyramid through 80 different touchpoints across four criteria: Financial Sustainability, Good Governance, Equality Standards and Good Governance.

The Index comes in the wake of a commitment from the Government to introduce a new Independent Regulator into football, a new state of play survey for football and a determination to oversee football’s financial flow.

And with the possible demise of Southend United, and question marks over both Reading and Barnsley it couldn’t be more timely.

At the moment over half of England’s top 92 clubs are technically insolvent, and a majority of Championship clubs are spending more than they earn on players’ wages. While the Premier League give only 12% of its TV revenue to the rest of the pyramid - around half of which goes to the half a dozen clubs who recieves parachute payments.

Reform is needed and the Fair Game Index gives a glimpse of a fairer future for football.