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FA’s new non-league contract will cut injured players’ wages. It must be stopped

L ast Saturday, with no Premier League or international football in the English men’s game, many fans turned their attention to their local non-league teams. The depth of non-league football is a unique feature of the English game. I can speak from experience, having spent several seasons with non-league clubs before coming into the EFL, where I play for Leyton Orient.

Unfortunately, a large part of the weekend’s focus centred on the introduction by the Football Association of a new non-league player contract that has caused anger at that level. In football, the “standard” contract is, basically, the template terms and conditions element signed as part of every agreement. Among a range of changes to the non-league standard contract are two that players will view as most important.

Simply put, the new contract makes it easier for clubs to reduce a player’s wages if they get injured or terminate the contract of a player who suffers a long-term injury. In the National League’s top division injured players can, from 1 July, be moved from full pay on to statutory sick pay – £99.35 a week – after 12 weeks. Below that, this window drops to six weeks. Alternatively, a club could terminate a player’s contract by serving three months’ notice if a club-instructed medic decides the player cannot play because of injury or illness for four months or longer.

Some months ago, the FA asked the Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA) to provide feedback on proposed changes. We were able to work constructively to make some amendments but, ultimately, kept coming back to the fact that we couldn’t support a contract that contained these new conditions. We made clear we viewed them as a reduction in rights. We also set out what the

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