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EFL Special: How will clubs be affected by coronavirus?

Football Daily

BBC

Soccer, Sports

4.34.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Mark Chapman is joined by Michael Brown, George Elek and Kieran Maguire to look at how EFL clubs will be affected by coronavirus. On this special episode, we hear from EFL chairman Rick Parry, Portsmouth striker John Marquis, Stevenage chairman Phil Wallace and Wycombe Wanderers boss Gareth Ainsworth.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

0:04.8

This is the Football Daily Podcast with Mark Chapman.

0:10.8

Hello and welcome to this EFL special edition of the Football Daily.

0:14.9

Coming up, you'll hear from Rick Perry, chairman of the EFL,

0:18.3

the Portsmouth striker, John Marcus, the Wickenboss,

0:21.7

Garathane's with and the Stephenidge Chairman Phil Wallace.

0:25.2

I'm also joined by Michael Brown,

0:27.5

who's played and managed in the Football League.

0:29.6

George Eleg from Not the Top 20 Podcast

0:32.0

and the Football Finance expert, Keira McGuire.

0:41.0

George, it's an obvious thing to say,

0:43.4

but there are a lot of clubs who will be seriously worried at the moment.

0:47.6

Yeah, I think the key thing to recognise initially here is that

0:51.3

in terms of the coronavirus, football is not one of the key issues,

0:54.1

but in terms of football itself,

0:56.1

the virus is the biggest threat to the game that we've seen for a very long time.

0:59.8

It comes at a time of crisis in the EFL where we've seen

1:03.4

Barry expelled, we've seen Bolton come close to that,

1:06.4

as well we've seen Maclassfield and South End in the last couple of months

1:09.7

struggling to pay their staff.

1:11.2

And this couldn't really come at a worse time,

1:13.6

where you could argue the bubble of the EFL was going to burst at some point,

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