It’s unresearched and ill thought out.
There’s no evidence that viewers overseas will watch in their droves Derby v Boro or Brentford v Forest, in exactly the same way they don’t watch La Liga or Serie A here unless it involves the top few clubs.
In the Premier League there are 12 clubs out of 20 where matchday income is less that 10% of the total, and so the number of matches played is relatively unimportant.
In the Championship there are 0 clubs out of 24 where matchday income is less than 10% of the total, so the number of teams in...
The Premier League voted in June to split the TV revenues using a new formula so that they will receive more from 2019 and the EFL teams less. Bozza and I run a website that looks at stuff like this and reported it at the time...