Could We See Regionalised Football?
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Rotherham United could be going back to the 1950’s for the start of the new season with
CoventryLive saying that plans by the EFL are to regionalise football.
It has been said since the coronavirus shut down football in the UK in March that many of the smaller clubs could ‘go to the wall’ having know revenue with the EFL coming up with this idea for next season so that teams won’t have a lot of travelling, won’t have to go from one end of the country to the other therefore won’t have the expense of staying in hotels.
This idea means that the Championship and League One and Two clubs will play less games – probably just twenty-two before having play-offs for promotion and possibly relegation – and have more time for Cup games.
If this should come to fruition the the Millers, who would still be in League One (so I’m presuming this would mean this current season would be wiped out?) would play Accrington Stanley, Blackpool, Bolton Wanderers, Doncaster Rovers, Fleetwood Town, Lincoln City, Rochdale, Shrewsbury Town, Sunderland and Tranmere Rovers.
The last time the Millers were in a ‘North’ Division was in the 1950/1 season when they finished top of the league with seventy-one points and were promoted to the Second Division which wasn’t regionalised. The last time there was a North and South division was in 1957/8 and the following season they became the Third and Fourth Divisions.
Would regionalising football help clubs? Yes, I can understand the expense of travelling will be cut down but wouldn’t having less home games see less footfall for clubs?
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