It could yet be the greatest opportunity to revitalise the league's along sustainable lines with emphasis on homegrown players which would only benefit the national team. But the PL is so built on "evil capitalist"
lines that the opportunity could almost certainly be lost. After all what's better than 20 odd grade one academies developing talent...92 academies with highly trained coaching staffs.
What will happen echos what happened 30 years ago when the FA went behind the FL back and met with Sky, Back then Sky knew the best way to grow is get live football on a dedicated sports channel and they went for the top level football, which was riding high after Italia '90, Sky were a small station but with massive backing and that first tv deal of £385m? for exclusive rights to the games those at the FA just saw pound signs before their collective greedy eyes, Sky didn't want Div 2,3,4 as they were called so the FA totally shafted the FL and set up the PL. In a way it was the FL fault because they didn't see the potenial growth in the game that bigger clubs could see, In their final season the FL/ITV didn't even bother to show live games until the November but by then it was a sealed sale of football to Sky. You could potentially see a stitch up again once this is all over with and the FL being left out and picking up the crumbs but this time because of how things are nowadays with so much focus on the PL what ever any new deal is will be even worth less than now. Finishing the PL is solely driven by money, Nothing else, They don't care if the EFL finish now and wouldn't give a fig if there is no relegation/promotion and once this season finishes, Those at the FA/PL will meet again to and the conversation will only be about the 20 clubs, how much money they can rake back from this and that will be at the expense of the EFL clubs. This won't end well for the 71/2 EFL teams.
With this proposal I don’t think they’ll get away with that.
I hope not but I am not confident that resources will be allocated to pursue scumbags.
This reminds me of the saga of the - now gone - away end toilet block and the driver who, turned up one day with a low loader and instructions to remove it due to non payment of rent. Fortunately for ECFC 'someone' stepped in with their credit card and saved the day!
Apparently there will be FFA insiders over seeing things.
Not surprised, As I said a few weeks ago, ST holders paid for their tickets last year, The money went out last year and they got on with life, There wasn't this virus around then, This year is different, People are either furloughed or losing their jobs and money is tight, People will have doubts about spending hundreds on a season ticket when they have other, more important things to pay. Many fans will be happy that their ST and the few home games left on them might ease the financial burden on the club and help in some small way.
Taggy seemed upbeat in the recent video conference release with supporters groups.