• Alex Ferguson CBE, Manager, Manchester United FC
• Nicholas Coward, Company Secretary, The Football Association
• Richard Scudamore, Chief Executive, The Football League
• Mike Lee, Premier League Spokesman
• Gordon Taylor, Chief Executive, Professional Footballer's Association
• Jaime Andreu-Romeo, Head of Sports Unit, DGX, European Commission
• Tom Pendry, Chairman, The Football Trust
• Nicholas Finney OBE, Member of the MMC panel for the BSkyB/Manchester United bid
• Alister Bell, Legal Adviser for EU matters, UEFA
• Andy Burnham, Special Adviser, Department of Culture, Media and Sport
• Mark Oliver, Oliver & Ohlbaum Associates, author of FA Premier League report Super Leagues and Super Clubs: The Implications for Football and TV in Europe
• Ernie Battey, Head of Project Finance, Lloyds Bank/TSB
• Alex Fynn, Consultant and Journalist
• Tom Cannon, Chief Executive, Management Charter Initiative
• Gerry Boon, Head of the Deloitte & Touche Football Industry Team
• Dr Rogan Taylor, Director, Football Research Unit, Liverpool University
• John Williams, Sir Norman Chester Centre for Football Research, Leicester University
• Professor Martin Cave, Broadcasting Advisor, OFT
• Tony Dart, Technical Director, Chartered Institute of Management Accountants
• Charlie Whelan, Journalist
• Mark Goyder, Tomorrow's Company
• Warren Phelops, Nicholson Graham & Jones
• Armand Caraben, former General Manager, Barcelona FC
• Alison Pilling, Chair, Football Supporters Association
• Chris Heinitz, Chair, Leisure & Tourism Committee, Local Government Association
• Carolyn Downs, Director of Leisure Services, Calderdale Council
• Paul Keen, Arthur Andersen Consulting
• Lee Manning, Buchler, Phillips and Company
• Dr Peter Crowther, Consultant to Rosenblatt Solicitors
• Nick Toms, Barrister, Mitre House Chambers
• Nigel Hawkins, Williams De Broe
• Robert Matusiewicz, Partner, BDO Stoy Haywards
• Professor Peter Sloane, University of Aberdeen
• Professor Keith Cowling, University of Warwick
• Professor Andrew Gamble, University of Sheffield
• David Conn, Author of The Football Business, Mainstream Press
• Mathew Horsman, Investec Henderson Crosthwaite and author of Sky High: BSkyB and the Digital Revolution
• Patrick Mignon, Institut National du Sport et de I'Education Physique, Paris
• Stuart Dykes, Schalker Fan-Initiative, Germany
• Alfons Godall, 'LElefant Blau', Barcelona FC
• Brian Lomax, elected Director, Northampton Town FC
• Dr Simon Deakin, Reader in Law, University of Cambridge
• Dr Adam Brown, Manchester Institute of Popular Culture
• Dr Stefan Szymanski, Imperial College, London
• Professor Bill Holahan, University of Wisconsin
• Professor Jonathan Michie, Birkbeck College
• Vivek Chaudhury, The Guardian
• Patrick Harverson, The Financial Times
• Ian Todd, Chairman, National Federation of Football Supporters' Clubs
• Ben Tegg, Kick It Out
• Mark Longden, Coalition of Football Supporters
• Gordon Farquhar, Radio 5 Live
• Michael Crick, Shareholders United
• Dr Christine Oughton, Birkbeck College
• Stephen Morrow, Heriot Watt University
• Dr Tim Crabbe, Sheffield Hallam University
• Andy Walsh, Independent Manchester United Supporters Association
• Kevin Miles, Independent Newcastle United Supporters Association
• Richard Chorley, Southampton Independent Supporters Association
• Huw Richards, Freelance Journalist
• Hilary Curtis, Editor, TV World
• Graham Ennis, Editor, When Skies Are Grey

And other leading football and broadcasting analysts, plus representatives from the Football Task Force.