From last Sunday's 'Observer'
The government is to unveil radical proposals that would give football fans first option to buy their clubs when they were put up for sale and require clubs to hand over a stake of up to 25% to supporters' groups.
The ideas, due to be included in the Labour manifesto with a promise of action in the first year of a new government, are designed to give fans a far greater say in how their football clubs are run and overhaul the way the game is governed.
What kind of insane world do we live in, when the Government is prepared to interfere with the laws of private property for a game?
Granted you would have to be plain daft to own shares in a football club (Gordon Brown owns shares in Raith Rovers) but if you did they plan to force you to sell them to someone else. They will do this by increasing the number of bureaucrats, regulators, czars and unnecessary quangos just at a time when we ought to be culling them.
If Mr Cameron fails to give the Government a good kicking over this he ought to be in a different job.
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