Government ‘still committed’ to £550million grassroots football investment

General Election 2019
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The Government is understood to remain committed to an election manifesto pledge to invest an additional £550million into grassroots football in England as part of a UK and Ireland bid for the 2030 World Cup.

The pledge did not feature in the spending review set out by Chancellor Rishi Sunak last month, raising fears that a key plank of the bid, which has yet to be officially launched, would be a casualty of the coronavirus pandemic.

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