"It is not in the interest of fans, not in the interest of football, how can it be right to have
a situation in which you create a kind of cartel that stops clubs competing against each other, playing against each other properly, with all the hope and excitement that gives to the fans up and down the country?" Johnson told a news conference.
"If necessary, in order to protect that principle of competition we will seek, as I said, to the bodies earlier on, we will seek the legislative solution."
"What will I say to the billionaire club owners? Football is one of the great glories of our cultural heritage. Football was invented in this country, these clubs, these names, originate from famous towns and cities in our country.
"I don't think it right that they should be somehow dislocated from their hometowns and home cities and turned into international brands and commodities without any reference to the fans who have loved them all their lives and just circulate the planet propelled by the billions of banks."
He said the government will back the FA and Premier League in the hope of "thwarting this proposal before it goes much further".
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