LET US hope that Edward Griffiths’ plans for a selffunding Championship prove to be workable, though I fear that TV and sponsorship packages may be hard to come by.
Irrespective of the – hopefully, short term – coronavirus crisis, the game desperately needs more money, if anything like the current structure is to be maintained.
If the Championship is to remain as a full-time professional league, it must, as Griffiths has said, stand on its own two feet. If it can’t, then by implication it will have to accept that, without the backing of a major sponsor, clubs wi...