https://www.bigissuenorth.com/features/2022/04/friendly-play/#close When Bury was wound up, MP Damian Collins, then chair of the Commons Digital, Media, Culture and Sport Committee, said its demise was part of a “systematic and structural” problem afflicting the game, in which owners with poor financial track records were allowed to own clubs, there were lax controls on borrowing and supporters’ concerns went unheard. “These failures were avoidable, and it is essential that the authorities urgently overhaul their framework if they wish to avoid the same fate befalling other clubs,” he warned. A very good and timely article from Big Issue North |  |