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This is the article from the Guardian:- https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/mar/24/johnstones-paint-football-league-trophy-sponsorship Johnstone’s Paint to end sponsorship of Football League Trophy ( after 10 years) "Shaun Harvey, the Football League chief executive, said: “On behalf of...

Because Gary and Lee Johnson have trademarked the name????? http://www.efl.com/news/article/2016/bristol-city-lee-johnson-delighted-to-reclaim-family-bragging-rights-3206984.aspx Lee Johnson reclaimed family bragging rights and the Johnson Cup after his Bristol City side beat dad Gary's...

Shouldn't be a problem as the whole format may be cancelled once League One/Two chairmen read the following article and change leagues all together.... http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36624493 Derek Adams: 'Teams in England's League Two could play in Scottish Premiership' 'Enlightened' by...

Some of the serial moaning ( nailed on gold medal for GB if it was an Olympic sport) will hopefully have subsided about League 2 teams having excessive travel due to being in the Northern part of the draw. This is the case for Cheltenham and Cambridge as they are geographically part of the 12...

Portsmouth have got Reading U-23 ( Category 1 Academy), Yeovil and Bristol Rovers. They will have to finish first or second to get a chance to take on one of the other Premiership/Championship academies and maybe meet Southampton, Chelsea etc. later Tony Bloom's investment in the teams and...

The rules state the following:- "Invited clubs ( the Category 1 Academies) will play one home game at the club’s first team stadium." That said, looks like all West Ham's fixtures are away ( breaking the rules and spirit of the competition in the process) and disappointing Wycombe, Coventry...

The League 1 and 2 teams to be faced will no doubt have a lot of half/full season loanees from Premiership and Championship clubs in any case, Orient and Stevenage have loanees from Bournemouth and West Brom, for example. Southend have Nile Ranger................

I've recently had the misfortune to visit Grimsby, Hull and Sheffield on business. If somebody smashed up Grimsby town centre it would be hard to tell the difference, it was so desolate and run down that post-blitz Portsmouth looked better. Hull is European City of Culture for 2017 ( a lot of...

We had a tough fixture away last year at Southend in the League Cup and failed to progress against Walsall with stronger squads; so these fixtures will be good workouts, Despite a lot of criticism about the encroachment of elite youth squads on this competition, it gives, in theory, a League 2...

This is why Newcastle declined:- http://www.nufc.co.uk/articles/20160727/club-statement-efl-trophy_2281670_5759465

Group Stage Draw - South- Section Two Teams LEAGUE ONE Charlton Gillingham Millwall MK Dons Peterborough Southend LEAGUE TWO Barnet Colchester Crawley Orient Luton Stevenage CAT ONE Brighton Norwich Saints WBA Group will be one from each pot plus an additional team from League 1 or 2. Play...

On a Luton web site they are bemoaning the fact that they will not be playing Watford in the EFL Trophy as they are not Category 1. http://www.lutontoday.co.uk/sport/luton-town/luton-town-news/no-watford-clash-for-luton-in-efl-trophy-1-7464563 We will only have one home game in the group stage...

The U-23s have their tiered leagues ( with promotion, play-off and relegation), cup and, for the top 12 Category 1 academies (including Reading) an International Cup competition against the likes of PSV, Bilbao, Celtic, Benfica, Valencia, Villareal and Wolfsburg etc...

A lot of negative feedback on this competition on Twitter so far and the draw hasn't even been made. https://twitter.com/search?q=efl+trophy&ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Esearch Jaymo ‏@Run_Run_Gilkesy · 11m11 minutes ago "League 1 and 2 clubs aren't impressed our...

6 of the starting 11 to be U21, Three over-age outfield players, plus over-age goalkeeper, http://www.premierleague.com/news/58764 Means a good-run out for fringe/bench players especially as they can't go out on short-term (emergency) loans this year. This EFL Trophy plus EFL Cup (League Cup)...

A bit under the radar at the moment:- http://www.efl.com/news/article/2016/efl-trophy-group-stage-draw-date-announced-3207560.aspx The Category 1 Academy invitations will be announced at 0930. According to the following Wikipedia link there are still five slots available to Category 1...