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Labour say they’ll dish out football TV dosh

LABOUR said yesterday that it would enforce a Premier League commitment to invest 5 per cent of the proceeds from lucrative TV rights deals in grassroots sport.

Shadow health secretary and keen football fan Andy Burnham said it could unlock £400 million to nurture the talents of the next generation of stars over the course of the next parliament.

And he said Labour was ready to legislate if necessary to ensure elite clubs lived up to their 1999 promise to support struggling community facilities and projects.

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