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Not The Top 20 Podcast

EFL vs Covid19 Update with Matt Slater

Not The Top 20 Podcast

Not The Top 20 Podcast

Sports

4.8648 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Matt Slater from the Athletic kindly joined us to talk about the EFL and its clubs, and the current state of play with regard to the coronavirus. We touch on finishing the season vs voiding the season, financial concerns, the potential for clubs to go bust, the idea of regionalising one or two of the EFL divisions, and how tough it is to govern 71 clubs with different realities and priorities. This podcast is sponsored by The Athletic. For a free trial, and 50% off, use the link: theathletic.co.uk/ntt20 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

When I'm walking down Main Street with my hand round your side.

0:25.6

I can light up your seat.

0:26.7

Hi guys, thanks for tuning in to this week's Not the Top 20 podcast Monday edition.

0:31.8

It's Ali Maxwell and on the line with me is George Ellick.

0:36.5

We mentioned this last week when we did our championship draft team,

0:40.7

that this week we wanted to go a little more serious.

0:44.2

We are aware at the moment that there's a lot of concern about the future of the EFL and its clubs.

0:50.9

And we want to make sure that we are responsible for bringing you as much as we

0:55.2

can on that but we also know that there is appetite to take our minds off that as well and hence

1:01.7

we've done a few extra bits and bobs over the last few weeks george ellic on the line with me george

1:07.3

how did we approach things this week yeah after the very serious matter of the championship draft, we've actually done something

1:15.6

fairly serious here where, you know, it's kind of five weeks since we last had any football.

1:23.4

We're now entering the second phase of lockdown, and I guess it's a good chance for us to have a

1:31.2

look at the situation at the moment speak to someone who knows more than the new or I or most other

1:36.5

people in the athletics match later and just check in and see what the current you know what the

1:43.5

current vibe is around the EFL whether anything's changed from the doom or gloom from a few weeks ago, whether any outcome is more likely than not, whether we should be more concerned or less concerned for certain clubs.

1:56.5

And if there's any, anything we can do going forward to ensure that clubs welfare and safety

2:03.7

is maintained. So we have we've spoken to Matt on the phone already about all of these

2:09.7

questions, someone who is covering this stuff regularly for our sponsors, the athletic and doing so

2:14.2

absolutely brilliantly as well. So what we learned, well, what we knew

2:19.0

already, but what we learned certainly five weeks ago when Matt was on this very podcast

2:22.9

at the initial time where football had just been suspended a few days before, what you learn

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