{"id":322320,"date":"2025-08-06T11:02:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T11:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/322320\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T11:02:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T11:02:13","slug":"nandy-warns-morecambe-and-sheffield-change-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/322320\/","title":{"rendered":"Nandy warns Morecambe and Sheffield change is coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tWednesday 06 August 2025 10:52 am<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0Updated:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tWednesday 06 August 2025 11:22 am\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tShare<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"social-share__popup-item\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tFacebook\t\t\t\t\t\tShare on Facebook\n\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li class=\"social-share__popup-item\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tX\t\t\t\t\t\tShare on Twitter\n\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li class=\"social-share__popup-item\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tLinkedIn\t\t\t\t\t\tShare on LinkedIn\n\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li class=\"social-share__popup-item\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tWhatsApp\t\t\t\t\t\tShare on WhatsApp\n\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<li class=\"social-share__popup-item\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tEmail\t\t\t\t\t\tShare on Email\n\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img width=\"742\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2211288496-e1754473885515.jpg\" class=\"media \" alt=\"\" fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\"\/>\t\tCulture secretary Lisa Nandy has insisted \u201cchange is coming\u201d for the owners of Morecambe and Sheffield Wednesday amid concerns of the futures of the football clubs.\t<\/p>\n<p>Culture secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityam.com\/people-and-organizations\/lisa-nandy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lisa Nandy<\/a> has insisted \u201cchange is coming\u201d for the owners of Morecambe and Sheffield Wednesday amid concerns of the futures of the football clubs.<\/p>\n<p>Morecambe\u2019s 105-year history is at risk, with former Worcester Warriors owner Jason Whittingham\u2019s failure to sell the club.<\/p>\n<p>Sheffield Wednesday\u2019s players are set to fulfil their opening Championship game this Sunday, despite wages being delayed and registration embargoes issued by the EFL. The club is owned by Dejphon Chansiri.<\/p>\n<p>And Nandy, who has spearheaded the parliamentary push over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityam.com\/is-director-training-the-answer-to-footballs-governance-woes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Football Governance Bill<\/a>, which was passed into law last month, warned the owners of those clubs that change is coming.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/lisanandy\/status\/1951292650549625330\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">She wrote an open letter<\/a> to Whittingham stressing concerns over the future of the club but confirmed she did not receive a reply.<\/p>\n<p>Change coming for Morecambe<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityam.com\/why-the-football-governance-bill-is-good-news-for-investors-and-fans-alike\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">My message to the owners<\/a> at Morecambe and Sheffield Wednesday is that the legislation has passed parliament, it is being enacted [and] change is coming,\u201d Nandy told the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut while we set up the football regulator, and we are working at pace to do so, they need to recognise that they have a responsibility to be the custodians of a club and hand it on in good shape to the next generation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd that\u2019s why I wrote the open letter to Morecambe and have been working closely with local MPs in Sheffield and Morecambe to support fans and to bring about a resolution to what has become a crisis at both clubs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe legislation sets out a strengthened owners and directors test. In addition it allows the regulator to look retrospectively at whether somebody is fit and proper to own a club, and it does also allow the regulator in very extreme cases where the club would otherwise be lost, and Morecambe looks like one of these cases, it would allow the regulator to force the owners to sell rather than the club collapsing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tRead more<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a class=\"read-more__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cityam.com\/football-clubs-suffering-from-too-few-directors-report-warns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Football clubs suffering from too few directors, report warns<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\tSimilarly tagged content: <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tSections\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tCategories\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tPeople &amp; Organisations\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday 06 August 2025 10:52 am \u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0Updated:\u00a0 Wednesday 06 August 2025 11:22 am Share Facebook Share on Facebook&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-322320","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114981486177492302","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}