football bosses should be stripped of powers over young players to address a damaging “power imbalance” with clubs, a hard-hitting Holyrood inquiry has ruled.
Fed-up MSPs said “time is up” a decade after concerns were first heard at the Scottish Parliament over the welfare and rights of children.
The long-running probe looked at exploitative contracts and unfair pay, hearing from clubs and governing bodies the SFA and SPFL.
After repeated calls for self-regulation to protect younger players, politicians are now telling the Scottish Government to look at imposing external regulation.
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