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FOOTBALL LEAGUE clubs face decimation unless they get a financial lifeline from top-flight outfits within the next seven weeks. That is the bleak warning from an anxious executive working within the Championship, who fears football is on the brink of disaster. ⚠️ Read our coronavirus in sport live blog for the latest news & updates […] More
LEAGUES One and Two will be called off next week when the 47 clubs vote to end the season with immediate effect. The EFL executive committee have been canvassing teams in the two lower divisions for their views on trying to complete the campaign. ⚠️ Read our coronavirus in sport live blog for the latest […] More
AFC WIMBLEDON is one of the smallest clubs in the Football League — but it is having a massive impact in the fight against coronavirus. The fan-owned League One team is showing what people power can achieve in a remarkable humanitarian effort reaching out to the most vulnerable in the community during lockdown. AFC Wimbledon […] More
LEAGUE ONE clubs are each set for an £850,000 hit if their season is not completed. Peterborough chairman Darragh MacAnthony detailed how every side in English football’s third tier will suffer the consequences if the EFL are forced to declare the current campaign null and void. ⚠️ Read our coronavirus in sport live blog for […] More
FOOTBALL LEAGUE players are furious with the PFA — after they agreed a proposal with the EFL to defer 25 per cent of wages for April. The agreement, which was labelled a ‘disgrace’ on Tuesday night, applies to League One and League Two clubs. EFL chief Rick Parry (left) and Gordon Taylor of the PFA […] More
THE EFL and PFA have agreed to recommend a 25 per cent pay deferral for League One and Two players this month. Clubs are now set to decide whether or not to rubberstamp the deal as the coronavirus pandemic takes its toll. Clubs including Sunderland are being recommended the deferral by PFA boss Gordon Taylor […] More
BARRY FRY fears clubs will fold “like a pack of cards” if their seasons are not finished. Peterborough’s larger-than-life director of football has never faced such a grim scenario in all of his 60 years in the game. ⚠️ Read our coronavirus in sport live blog for the latest news & updates Barry Fry is […] More
PORTSMOUTH defender Sean Raggett last night spoke about his fear of spreading the coronavirus. Raggett was having a meal on Friday evening with two friends at The Star, a Hungry Horse restaurant in Gillingham, when he was told he was positive. Sean Raggett (left) was told he had tested positive for the virus on Friday […] More
