DECLAN Kidney made an interesting case for artificially sustaining the Championship, effectively to provide competition to the side relegated from the Premiership, while it girds its loins for the almost certain return to the top tier.
If that indeed is a valuable role, then why do those benefitting – i.e Premiership clubs – not foot the bill for the higher wages required to sustain a second tier of this kind? The Championship is not, as Kidney suggests, part of the game’s foundations, but rather the floor supporting the penthouse that is the Premiership and in order to do...