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Sharples to sit down with league's head of policy

Morning Star football reporter Joel Sharples will meet Premier League bosses today and demand clubs pay their staff the living wage.

Over 50,000 people signed Sharples’s online petition which led to the Premier League’s head of policy Bill Bush agreeing to a meeting.

Sharples, who is a youth worker with Football Beyond Borders, said to the Star: “We hope the Premier League will recognise the widespread revolution at the gross inequalities at football clubs and take steps to implement the living wage for all Premier League staff.”

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