The Football Show – Neville, Carragher, Joorabchian, Hanley
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Good morning and welcome to the Football Show. It's Friday morning. We're here with you until 11 o'clock in the morning. And we're joined by Jamie Carragher and Gary Neville. Also alongside us this morning, it is the Peter Browner, Darren McCartney. There's a lot been going on on Twitter and clearly there's been a lot more than that going on behind the scenes, trying to work out how League One moves forward at this time. Just explain your position and the tweet that you put out last night.
Morning all. Yeah, thanks for having me on and to be able to give my opinion on what's going on. Basically, what it was yesterday, we knew we had the big EFL meeting today, and everyone's been talking for the last 10 days about League 1, League 2, or voting to cancel, finish, end the season. And it's been going on in the press. Stories have been leaked left, right, and center. And that's not something we've been told all along. We've been preparing to get back to playing and finishing the season out. That's been the EFL stance all along when it was safe to do so. And as things suddenly started to improve and we're told football could be back in June, suddenly we're faced with this, well, there is going to be no football.
So a few clubs obviously decided to have a conversation yesterday. I got a phone call. I was invited to join a Zoom conversation. There were six of us on the call. We wanted to have a chat about basically what was going to happen in the meeting. All the clubs on that phone call, including clubs who aren't really involved in a promotion race at the moment, wanted to finish the season. It's been their plan all along for their fans to play out the nine games, finish the season as safely as possible. You know, if there's playoffs, if there's three games. When I spoke to Rick Parry about two and a half, three weeks ago, Rick made it very clear to me the EFL stance has always been the same. We want to finish the leagues.
We want to get it done. Yes, we mentioned sporting integrity, but there's a lot more to that. There's financial ramifications if we don't finish the league. I think there's a lot of those people don't know the full answers about before they make that decision about, well, we don't take our players off furlough.
What are the latest updates on League One football plans?
So when we spoke yesterday, it was really clear from all those clubs involved that we spoke to that, look, we want to get going. We want to finish the season. We want to give our fans who are at home, a lot of older fans we have at Peterborough, we want to give them something to smile about. So that's been our plan all along. And that's our plan going into the meeting today when we speak. I don't think there's going to be a vote today, but that's definitely our situation. And obviously, I saw Gary got involved on Twitter and I think he got a bit upset with me. And hence the invite to come on the show.
I wasn't upset.
Just before. The Festival of Football. What was it? The way you described it? I can't remember.
No, I mean... Yeah, Kelly, there you go. No, I mean, Dara, my point was last night, I understand completely the clubs at the top want to have a certain position, the clubs in the middle don't want to bring their players off furlough and they don't want to spend the money on the testing. I mean, my view on it would be that we're 10th in League Two. We would support football return if it was safe. And we would also pay for the testing to happen. However, I also understand, and you'll understand going into the meeting this morning, that it's circa £150,000 for the testing that clubs would have to fork out. And it's also maybe another... £150,000 minimum in furlough payments that the clubs are receiving at the moment.
They would lose £300,000 to £400,000 over a couple of months to play football. How are you going to be able to convince the rest of the league that your pursuit of football is something that they should pursue when obviously you need maybe 75% of the vote?
Sure. Look, a couple of things we want to clear on. We don't quite know what percentage of the vote we need.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:16–2:12
2
What are the latest updates on League One football plans?
2:12–8:21
3
What are the financial implications of finishing the football season?
8:21–33:40
4
What is the stance of players regarding the return to training and games?
33:40–35:22
5
How are clubs planning to ensure player safety during the pandemic?
35:22–44:10
6
What challenges do lower league clubs face in resuming play?
44:10–1:11:10
7
What was Gary Neville's perspective on Carlos Tevez's behavior?
1:11:10–1:11:35
8
How does Kia Joorabchian respond to Gary Neville's criticisms?
1:11:35–1:34:26
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