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Regulation is required at Tottenham due to a possible security risk
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Dan Plumley has insisted that the monitoring of fan tokens and the lack of regulations surrounding them are the biggest risk to Tottenham and other football clubs.
The finance expert admitted that with tokens open to all fans, no matter the club, there is a risk of an incident inside stadiums, with more regulation called for if they do take off.
It comes after football finance author Martin Calladine shared that a rival fan used the tokens to get box tickets for a Spurs game, before going onto mock fans on social media after.
“I think the bigger risk is the monitoring of it and the lack of regulatory framework around it,” he exclusively told Tottenham News.
“Also, the risk of who is getting those tokens, you assume that it would only be fans of your own club that you would be dealing with but we know that is not always going to be the case, so there is the monitoring in the online perspective.
“I suppose the bigger risk is if something like that comes to pass and you have an incident in the stadium, that then becomes a potential security or safety issue and that is a physical risk factor.
“I think again, it goes back to some of these things under the surface with these fan tokens that we’ve been saying all the way along and there has to be at some point if they really do take off and be something that is a fixture in football, there is going to have to be a look at the regulation behind it and the monitoring and how much control the clubs have over buying them.”
