The problem with independent governance is that it depends who is doing the governing. Possibly the poorest decision in the history of English football was made by a committee of independents. They sent Wimbledon to Milton Keynes.
At a Premier League meeting around 1996, struggling financially having earlier sold their Plough Lane home and now playing at Selhurst Park, Wimbledon owner Sam Hammam floated the idea of moving his club to Dublin.
He took the rather bemused smiles in the room, not least from Martin Edwards of Manchester United, as tacit approval from his fellow clubs and went ahead with his plan.