{"id":547,"date":"2021-01-26T16:48:18","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T15:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/foodsystemimpactscv19\/?p=547"},"modified":"2021-01-26T16:48:18","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T15:48:18","slug":"the-footballer-and-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/foodsystemsimpactscv19\/2021\/01\/26\/the-footballer-and-food\/","title":{"rendered":"The Footballer and Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-532 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/foodsystemimpactscv19\/files\/2021\/01\/sport-1813132_1920-1024x573.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"648\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/foodsystemsimpactscv19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/351\/2021\/01\/sport-1813132_1920-1024x573.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/foodsystemsimpactscv19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/351\/2021\/01\/sport-1813132_1920-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/foodsystemsimpactscv19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/351\/2021\/01\/sport-1813132_1920-768x430.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/foodsystemsimpactscv19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/351\/2021\/01\/sport-1813132_1920.jpg 1417w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Prof. Michael Winter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t often watch football. I used to enjoy playing but that was many years ago and somehow I just much prefer watching rugby these days, maybe because that\u2019s a sport I never did play.\u00a0 Be that as it may, on Sunday evening I did tune into BBC 1 and watch Manchester United take on Liverpool in the fourth round of the FA Cup.\u00a0 And I was prompted to do so in part because I wanted to see Marcus Rashford MBE.\u00a0 He did not disappoint, scoring one goal and making another with a superb pass. He is some player for sure. He is also perhaps the most prominent celebrity name in the Covid food story, leading fund raising efforts to support children in poverty with food; and at the same time taking on the Government over free school meals, most recently successfully challenging the quality of some food parcels.\u00a0 In this respect, Rashford is following in the footsteps of other celebrities, notably Jamie Oliver who, as long ago as 2006, highlighted quality issues with regard to school canteens. \u00a0Back then, it was the Compass Group under fire and it so happens that the miscreant highlighted by Rashford over food parcels was Chartwells, a subsidiary of Compass.\u00a0 Compass Group plc may not be a well-known name but they are a FTSE 100 company and a global player in catering.\u00a0 As the Guardian points out:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">\u2018<em>Catering services are typically fragmented between many small <\/em><em>providers, but Compass has profited from being one of the few catering companies with global scale and 550,000 employees. \u2026 The pandemic has also dented Compass\u2019s profits as canteens in offices, hospitals and military bases have remained shut around the world. Compass\u2019s earnings before tax fell by 85% in the year to 30 September 2020 to \u00a3210m<\/em>.\u2019<a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There can be no doubt that the food parcel that caused such offence was sub-standard &#8211; the photograph went viral and does not need reproducing here &#8211; but I have just a little sympathy for companies, big or small, trying to adapt to fast changing policy demands.<\/p>\n<p>I remember some academic colleagues back at the start of the pandemic writing to the Prime Minister suggesting that food rationing should be introduced, which I interpreted as headline- grabbing shorthand for more controls and a clear strategic policy within the food system. To me, and I would welcome feedback on this, the Marcus Rashford story highlights a failure of strategy within the inevitable policy intervention in the food system during this crisis.\u00a0 We have a situation where Government has intervened massively in the economy to an extent unprecedented since the Second World War, but neither the institutional architecture nor the nature of the policy deliberation process comes anywhere near what was put in place around the food system in 1940.\u00a0 And it was a very sophisticated, perhaps overly bureaucratic, set of interventions which certainly involved the farming and food industries directly in shaping and implementing policy.<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t resist just finishing on a footballing note. The football league was, of course, suspended from 1940 to 1945 but in the first season of its resumption in 1946\/47 the champions were none other Liverpool and the runners up Manchester United!\u00a0 Plus \u00e7a change!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2021\/jan\/12\/school-dinners-row-shines-light-on-role-of-catering-firms-chartwells-compass\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2021\/jan\/12\/school-dinners-row-shines-light-on-role-of-catering-firms-chartwells-compass<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; By Prof. Michael Winter I don\u2019t often watch football. I used to enjoy playing but that was many years ago and somehow I just much prefer watching rugby these days, maybe because that\u2019s a sport I never did play.\u00a0 Be that as it may, on Sunday evening I did tune into BBC 1 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1361,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Footballer and Food - Food systems impacts of COVID 19<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/foodsystemsimpactscv19\/2021\/01\/26\/the-footballer-and-food\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Footballer and Food - Food systems impacts of COVID 19\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; By Prof. Michael Winter I don\u2019t often watch football. 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