EFL claim a season does not always mean playing every club home and away
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Thank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow meSee ourprivacy noticeThe EFL may be preparing the ground to rip up 122 years of precedent and argue that playing every team home and away is not required to complete a season.
The EFL season was suspended in March due to the Covid 19 pandemic and while League Two clubs have unanimously decided that many people curtail the campaign, And in the Championship a consensus has formed in favour of playing on, League One remains split on this challenge.
Sunderland are one of several grouped League One that wants to play on, But they face opposition from another group that wants the growing season to be cut short and settled based on unweighted points per game either because it suits them, Or because of the costs of fulfiling their fixtures behind closed doors.
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Tranmere Rovers who are three points from safety with a game in hand of fourth bottom AFC Wimbledon also want the season to continue, recognize they would be relegated under the points per game scenario.
And Tranmere chairman Mark Palios has revealed that an unnamed EFL executive insisted to him that playing every team home and away is not the accepted structure of the season, Instead saying it may curtailed at any time.
It is a sign that the EFL is bracing itself for a backlash from clubs if the summer season is not completed, With Peterborough United owner Darragh MacAnthony already suggesting that he would sue the EFL if his club misses out on the play offs as it would if the season is settled on points per game.
Palios told the full time Mail: “They trying to make their rules fit the argument, Not the opposite way round.
“A senior EFL executive seriously tried to redefine the end of the growing season to us.
“He said it doesn actually if you have to play every team twice, So the growing season ends when you played all the games you can play.
“That was his reason.
“have fun with that when there is about 150 years of precedent.
“Before the beginning of every season, The leagues file a fixture list.
“What is the fixture list if not confirmation that you’re most likely meant to play everybody twice? Why does all season ticket include 23 home games rusian brides in the league?
“We got gives, commercial agreements, Media agreements why would these people be demanding rebates for missed games if there was no definite expectation of what a season means and what amount of matches it includes?
“things are all shaped around playing everybody twice and to suggest otherwise is ridiculous.
“to make sure getting so muddle headed,
The EFL policies define the word as meaning: “The period of the season commencing on the date of the first League Match and, almost every Club, Ending soon after the completion of the Club’s final fixture of the League Competition or, If the Club is doing the Play Offs, the next Play Off match for that Club,
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