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EFL SOS EFL chief’s seven-point plan to save the season includes bizarrely SNUBBING Prem cash and controversial August play-offs
EXCLUSIVE
EFL chief Rick Parry has told clubs the master plan to finish the season.
Parry sent an e-mail to outfits from the Championship to League Two, outlining what they should do.
The seven key points were as follows:
1) Give their players time off starting from NOW and not returning to any form of training until May 16.
2) Aiming at crashing through a 56-day season when they can to complete all three divisions.
3) Carrying on with play-offs, with home and away semis and a final at a venue to be decided.
4) All games to be closed doors until further notice.
5) Clubs are being told to pay the wages of the players this month while talks continue with the PFA about how that can be done.
6) Astonishingly the EFL will put the advance 'rescue' package from the Premier League on hold right now despite clubs needing cash.
7) Arranging a break between seasons, with no set date for the 2020-21 campaign.
Clubs are going through the implications of the ideas today before formalising an agreed plan of action by the end of the week.
Parry has spent days sifting through the concerns from top to bottom and laid down these guidelines.
Many will surprise, including the home and away play-off semi-finals as there was a call to settle promotion by final league position alone.
The timing also suggests the EFL plan - revealed last Sunday - is to try to play games from early June.
The likelihood now is that this campaign will run into July and possibly even August.
EXCLUSIVE
EFL chief Rick Parry has told clubs the master plan to finish the season.
Parry sent an e-mail to outfits from the Championship to League Two, outlining what they should do.
The seven key points were as follows:
1) Give their players time off starting from NOW and not returning to any form of training until May 16.
2) Aiming at crashing through a 56-day season when they can to complete all three divisions.
3) Carrying on with play-offs, with home and away semis and a final at a venue to be decided.
4) All games to be closed doors until further notice.
5) Clubs are being told to pay the wages of the players this month while talks continue with the PFA about how that can be done.
6) Astonishingly the EFL will put the advance 'rescue' package from the Premier League on hold right now despite clubs needing cash.
7) Arranging a break between seasons, with no set date for the 2020-21 campaign.
Clubs are going through the implications of the ideas today before formalising an agreed plan of action by the end of the week.
Parry has spent days sifting through the concerns from top to bottom and laid down these guidelines.
Many will surprise, including the home and away play-off semi-finals as there was a call to settle promotion by final league position alone.
The timing also suggests the EFL plan - revealed last Sunday - is to try to play games from early June.
The likelihood now is that this campaign will run into July and possibly even August.
