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Boris Johnson tells football fans new regulator will be set up - but gives no time frame

Football fans tonight urged Boris Johnson to speed up an overhaul of the game’s governance.

The PM said the Government would set up an independent regulator following a fan-led review.

Speaking at Bury FC, Mr Johnson said it would “help fans stick up for their interests” but gave no time frame for when.

But the Football Supporters Association warned: “There’s no time to dwell on the ball. Each day is another day a club might cease to exist, another day for a dodgy owner to get their hooks into a club.”

Fans of Derby, doomed to be relegated from the Championship after a 21-point deduction following their plunge into administration, agreed there was no time to lose.

The Rams Trust said it was “disappointed that there is no timetable” adding: “These reforms are needed urgently to protect clubs up and down the country.”

The Government will also work with football bodies and police to consider the safety and economic case for piloting the sale of alcohol at matches in lower leagues.

Fans will have a formal role deciding “heritage issues” such as changes to their club stadia, logo, name and kit via a “golden share”.

Cardiff City Supporters’ Trust chairman Keith Morgan, who has followed the Bluebirds for 60 years, hoped the overhaul would stop a repeat of controversies like when City’s owner changed the club’s home shirts to red in 2012, before a U-turn in 2015.

“The idea of fans having to be formally consulted on major changes is important, and that’s going to go through,” he said.

“We wouldn’t have had the change of colours because fans would have had to approve it.”

Conservative MP Julian Knight, who chairs the Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, said: “The commitment to introduce an independent

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