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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
If the founding teams were in their own private league, they won't be out of work.
The governing bodies can surely add a definition of "club" to their rules so that a player's club must be one affiliated to that governing body which, in turn, can be governed by rules as to which leagues are allowed to offer "clubs".
Something like that. But not the government; it's a precedent too far.
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I suspect Boris is hoping that the threat of legislation will be enough. The clubs need to understand they’re in a no-win scenario. If the calculation was purely based on existing laws, where there is an acknowledged grey area between sporting and competition legislation, they may well decide it’s worth the fight. If they come to understand that if they win in the courts, they will then lose in parliament, where they have no hope of influence, then that is almost certainly going to be enough to persuade them not to waste their money on all those expensive corporate lawyers.