{"id":252220,"date":"2025-07-08T14:56:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T14:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/252220\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T14:56:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T14:56:10","slug":"uk-football-police-chief-demands-58m-from-top-premier-league-clubs-to-curb-unjust-fan-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/252220\/","title":{"rendered":"UK football police chief demands \u00a358m from top Premier League clubs\u00a0to curb \u2018unjust\u2019 fan treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Kingdom\u2019s head of football policing is urging the government to introduce new legislation that would force the top Premier League clubs to fund matchday policing rather than taxpayers, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-14885533\/UK-football-police-chief-Premier-League.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\">Daily Mail<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>The policing bill stands at around \u00a371 million a year, but only \u00a313m is being recovered from clubs. Chief Constable Mark Roberts says it\u2019s time for a change that reflects the immense wealth of the sport.<\/p>\n<p>Roberts believes it is fundamentally \u201cunjust\u201d for the public to subsidise an industry that regularly sees clubs spend hundreds of millions in the transfer market.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a loophole in the current policy that only allows clubs to be charged for security provided in their stadiums or any club-owned property.<\/p>\n<p>Policing public roads, city centres, and other areas around the stadium doesn\u2019t fall under the club\u2019s jurisdiction. Instead, it falls on taxpayers despite the fact that disturbances often occur in those areas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey do not have to pay a penny towards the policing of surrounding streets, city centres or towards the increasing marches to stadiums by fans,\u201d Roberts said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you think about the number of stadiums that back on to public land, that does not make any sense.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOld Trafford, for example, where you have Sir Matt Busby Way, which is closed to cars and needs to be policed. At Bramall Lane, the away fans come straight out onto Bramall Lane, which is where the flashpoints tend to be. It\u2019s madness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roberts also argues that the \u00a358 million shortfall should be recovered from clubs rather than public resources, which are already overstretched.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat cannot be right,\u201d he added. \u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s unreasonable to ask for that extra money. We need new legislation urgently put in place to change this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also dismissed the idea that top clubs already pay their fair share through taxes. Premier League clubs reportedly paid \u00a34.2 billion in taxes during the 2021\/22 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United Kingdom\u2019s head of football policing is urging the government to introduce new legislation that would force&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3976],"tags":[331,332,13,14,15,12,3992,3993,3994,3995,3996,3997],"class_list":{"0":"post-252220","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vereinigtes-koenigreich","8":"tag-aktuelle-nachrichten","9":"tag-aktuelle-news","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-nachrichten","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-schlagzeilen","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-united-kingdom-of-great-britain-and-northern-ireland","17":"tag-vereinigtes-koenigreich","18":"tag-vereinigtes-koenigreich-grossbritannien-und-nordirland","19":"tag-vereinigtes-koenigreich-von-grossbritannien-und-nordirland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@de\/114818199305355945","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}