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By Ed Warner You have just one day to submit your application to be the inaugural chair of the new independent football regulator. Former Tory MP Tracey Crouch’s blueprint has been adopted by Labour culture secretary Lisa Nandy, whose professional reputation will likely be made or broken by the decisions of the IFR – unless the customary game of ministerial musical chairs leaves a successor in her hotseat when the first controversies land. The time for carping about the need for a regulator is past. It is an inevitability, deemed a football crowd-pleaser by politicians of varying hues. Now the…

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