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After Angus Scott introduces the motion, Tom Bower proposes the motion by arguing that Sky's money has created a monster, and that football is not a free market but a closed market, which had been strangled by short-sightedness and greed. Portsmouth has had four owners in the past year, including an arms dealer and a fraudster, and now they even owe money to the Boy Scouts and St John's Ambulance. Clubs have built up unsustainable levels of debt and the Premier League has refused to allow the powerless FA to impose a fit and proper person test.
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