The EFL and Premier League’s AGMs have been held, but even with the threat of an independent regulator in the air, not much is changing.
And with that the 2021/22 season is over. Both the EFL and the Premier League held their AGMs on June 9, marking the formal switchover into the new football season. No-one is relegated on the last day of the season; not formally at least. Promotion and relegation happen at these meetings in a flurry of formalities and legalities. Any rule changes for the following season are agreed. Out with the old and in with the new.
News on the Premier League’s meeting has been somewhat thin on the ground. There were two stories in the Mail prior to the meeting, one saying that the league are cancelling their contract to broadcast in Russia – no, they hadn’t quite gotten around to that yet – and one suggesting that nation-state buyouts could be banned under tougher ownership rules (it was later reported that this had been put back a while and that it was unlikely that nation-states would be banned).
Elsewhere, the League has committed to tougher action against pitch invaders and threatened fans with football-wide bans to ensure their prevention, endorsed fan advisory boards to nominate a supporter to be a ‘board-level official’ (although further details on that are scant), and extended the £30 cap on away ticket to 2025 while writing them into their rule book, which suggests that some sort of cap on away tickets could be made semi-permanent. But on the whole coverage of the meeting has been low-key, with few changes of enormous significance.
The same could be said for the EFL, but they do at least seem to have something of a gift for finding a positive headline, with the news that clubs will mix and match their kits next season to better assist the colour-blind in being able to differentiate between teams during matches. The league’s decision has been welcomed by the non-profit organisation Colour Blind Awareness, who highlighted recent League One playoff semi-final between Sunderland and Sheffield Wednesday as a particularly problematic clash for colour-blind people on account of the teams turning out in red and white stripes and blue and white stripes respectively.
Elsewhere, clubs will now be allowed to name up to seven substitutes on their team sheets with no more than five being able to take part in the match, conviction for a hate crime, defined as an offence that is considered to be aggravated in…
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