English football warned it faces ‘collapse’ as staggering new report reveals 32 clubs are just 30 days from going bust

ENGLISH football must fix its financial issues “while the sun is shining” – rather than risk “collapse”. That was the stark warning from the new body set up to oversee the entire pyramid. In its 245-page draft “State of the Game” report, the Government-backed Independent Football Regulator outlined the scale of the looming crisis if football does not heed the danger signs. While Prem clubs, led by the Big Six, have enjoyed unprecedented growth in a “virtuous circle of success”, the rest of the food chain has risked its very survival trying to catch up.