Leeds chief Kinnear slams government football review: It will KILL competition | OneFootball

Leeds United chief Angus Kinnear has hit out at the fans-led review into football governance.

The review, which was commissioned by the UK government and published last week by MP Tracey Crouch, proposed an independent regulator and for Premier League clubs to pay a 'transfer levy' to support the football pyramid.

Writing in his programme notes ahead of Leeds' match with Crystal Palace on Tuesday night, Kinnear said: "Football is a private sector business and has flourished that way.

"Enforcing upon football a philosophy akin to Maoist collective agriculturalism (which students of 'The Great Leap Forward' will know culminated in the greatest famine in history) will not make the English game fairer, it will kill the competition which is its very lifeblood.

"Teams further down the pyramid do not need their means artificially inflated, they need to live within them."