Yeovil and the Championship

Good BBC article/interview with Gary Johnson about the difficulties facing the smaller clubs in the Championship.  I mentioned a couple of Fridays ago that Doncaster v Yeovil was one of the worst (televised) Championship matches I had ever seen.

With hindsight, I think it only fair to take into account what is said in the article, in that only 6 teams presently in the Championship have never been in the Premier League and therefore not benefited from budgets inflated by parachute payments.

This highlights how incredibly difficult it is for teams coming up through the divisions to make any sort of impact without external investment.....

......and it occurs to me that, even if City had been on a stable financial footing before Vincent Tan arrived, we would still have struggled to make any sort of headway without his considerable financial investment.

However this season pans out, I think we should that we should be mindful that we would have been very unlikely to have made it to the Premier League without Tan.

Long may it continue and, hopefully, we can all remain friends and united in our support for our club.  If not, then, at least we will have been given a chance, a chance which is looking to be increasingly unlikely or nigh impossible for the minnows of the division.

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/25365601

Money is slowly ruining the British game, and it'll be felt in the championship more than anywhere. The teams there were relegated from the premiership will have not only a stronger team than their championship opposition but also much greater financial backing, making them almost certain to come straight back up. Likewise any teams promoted to the championship as you have said will be be fighting a lost cause against teams with three or four times their financial power. We will get stuck in a loop where the teams relegated from the premiership will come straight back up next season, and those from league 1 will be relegated back down immediately.

It's already considered nigh on impossible to break the lockdown the top 6 in the premiership have, because their bank accounts are nigh on inexhaustible. If it gets so bad that even the teams at the top of the championship operate the same monopoly, then god knows what would happen. You might see a lot more teams 'selling their souls', as it's the only plausible way to survive.

Are there parachute payments for teams relegated from the Championship?

If so, the knock on effect will be a gradual, overall improvement to league 1 in a similar way that the Championship has just got better and better over the years.

In the long run, the money is a great thing for British football imo.

Good question. I'm sure that Red will let us know later......  

TDA wrote:Good question.  I'm sure that Red will let us know later......  

Was that a bitchy remark?

I stuck 'league 1 parachute payments' into Google and it returned this article. Apparently in the 06/07 season clubs relegated to league 1 were given a one off 120,000 parachute payment, I couldn't find out if the number has grown since. 22 million in parachute payments from the premiership and 120,000 from the championship, you can see how a gulf would be growing.

http://www.wsc.co.uk/the-archive/40-Business-&-finance/472-a-drop-of-comfort

Cheers Red, I can sleep better now I know that,

Red614 wrote:

TDA wrote:Good question.  I'm sure that Red will let us know later......  

Was that a bitchy remark?

I stuck 'league 1 parachute payments' into Google and it returned this article. Apparently in the 06/07 season clubs relegated to league 1 were given a one off 120,000 parachute payment, I couldn't find out if the number has grown since. 22 million in parachute payments from the premiership and 120,000 from the championship, you can see how a gulf would be growing.

http://www.wsc.co.uk/the-archive/40-Business-&-finance/472-a-drop-of-comfort

Not at all, my friend.......you are the man with access to all sorts of relevant info for which most of us wouldn't know where to look!