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FSF hits back at EFL CEO saying fans 'wouldn't have a club' without owners
Insult to fans: Shaun Harvey

THE Football Supporters’ Federation (FSF) says “clubs could not exist without fans” after outgoing English Football League (EFL) chief executive Shaun Harvey said that without owners fans “wouldn’t have a club.”

Harvey said on BBC Radio 5 Live’s Sportsweek today that football needs “to look at how it treats the owners at some of its clubs.”

He added that owners of football clubs are being “roughed [up] and ridiculed in certain quarters.

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