Martin Cloake

ALT FSA chair Tom Greatrex said: “The State of the Game report clearly highlights the unsustainable, broken model of football’s finances. “How is our national game, which generates billions in revenue every year, in such a perilous condition with so many clubs living hand-to-mouth and reliant on regular handouts from owners? “Whether you are a football finance expert or a match going supporter who pays little attention to off-field issues, it is astonishing that almost one in three clubs could not survive for more than a month if an owner stopped funding them. “This is an alarm call for English men’s professional football that must precipitate real and lasting change.”