Watershed moment for the sport in England comes after years of crisis and campaigning.
English Football League
TV rights expert and media executive to chair new body.
Appointment seen as financial big-hitter, committed fan, and 'nobody's fool'.
Reformers have welcomed a strengthening of proposed regulation.
Martin Calladine is a football business journalist whose latest book, No Questions Asked: How football joined the crypto con, is out now.
Proposals to establish an independent regulator for English football have been examined by barrister Nick De Marco KC, one of the country's leading sports law experts.