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"Mr President, despite reservations on one or two items in it, Labour MEPs voted in favour of the Belet report. This is because the thrust of the report is to help the footballing authorities deal with some very real problems facing them by ensuring that European laws adopted for other purposes do not get in their way when they are dealing with these problems. In other words, it is quite the opposite of what the previous speaker said. We are not trying to harmonise the rules relating to football or to take control of football. We are trying to give the football authorities some extra space so that they can deal with their problems themselves.
In this context, I would like to add that I was very surprised that Mr Heaton-Harris tabled an amendment given to him by a lobbyist from Real Madrid. The effect of allowing the individual sale of TV rights by individual clubs, instead of collectively by a league with redistribution to all clubs, will now be felt in Spain alone among the 27 Member States. It not only destroys sporting competition within the Spanish League – because Barcelona and Real Madrid will get a billion euros each over the next few years – it also distorts sporting competition at European level by giving those clubs an unfair advantage over the clubs in every other league in Europe. I am astonished that Mr Heaton-Harris should have tabled such an amendment."@en1
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