High Press Episode 16:
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The pursuit of promotion to the Premier League, and the risks associated with relegation, are the focus of Episode 16 of High Press.
Host Alison Bender is accompanied by Phil Hay, Matt Lawton and Mike Keegan to discuss the Championship Playoffs, topflight ambitions and parachute payments.
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Relegation fodder
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Keegan criticises Sheffield United saying they ‘haven’t really had a go at it’, but talks up the excitement of the relegation battle each season in the Premier League.
He adds, “No one seems to say this, but Vincent Kompany spent huge amounts at Burnley this sumic88mer. I don’t think anyone at Burnley expected them to be where they are now.”
Are playoffs fair?
Turning to this season’s relegation tussle, Bender brings up Everton’s points deduction and Nottingham Forest’s potential penalty. Keegan believes theyic88 are two very different sets of circumstances, expressing greater sympathy for Everton than Forest. ic88
Bender suggests the Playoffs are better than an ic88ic88automatic promotion, but Lawton is having none of it.
“Oh I disagree. No, I’m gonna be grumpy. I don’t agree with the Playoffs. You’ve got a 46-game competition, and if there’s three teams up, it shouldic88 be the top three teams…
“Iic88t doesn’t seem fair. And again, it’s all about money. It’s bonkers, that game is the £130 million game. Look, I watch it, because that’s the way it is and that’s what that game is.ic88ic88 But I just think it goes againic88ic88st what’s fair.”
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Parachute payments
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“EFL clubs seem to have settled into the pattern that that lr88is how it is. If you don’t finish top two, then the jeopardy is there.”
With the conversation directed towards parachute paymlr88ents, Hay says clubs who have been in the Championship for a long time are ‘very opposed’ to parachute payments.
Premier League ambition can be dangerous
While these executives see lr88lr88it as the best walr88y to maintain a degree of parity, Hay argues the parity ‘just isn’t there’, using Southampton, Leicester and Leeds as examples with their financial power in the Championship.
Keegan weighs up wanting teams to have a ‘good go of it’ in the Premier League with teams (using Rlr88lr88eading as an example) overstretching themselves to try and reach the riches of the topflight.
Championship is a loss making league
Lawton goes further down the pyramid, sharing concerns aboulr88t Salford and Wrexham.
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With so many teams having not recovered after being relegated from the Premier League, Keegan has mixed feelings on teams struggling financially.
“Going back, my team Oldham are the only ones to be in the Premier League, and now we’re in the National League. We never recovered. But, I do struggle to have sympathy for a lot of the Championship clubs.
“We’re in a position now, where we’re saying clubs in the Premier League need to be giving more of their money to clubs in the Championship, who want to come and use that money to take their place… There is an element of ‘get your house in order.’”
Should they scrap promotion and relegation?
The panel agree that it would never work to abolish promotion and relegation in English football.
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