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Demand four up!

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
8 May 2022

FANS’ FORUM

IN REGARDS to Adam Virgo’s excellent article on three up/three down to the EFL, has the National League board ever considered DEMANDING for four up/four down to gain full parity with the EFL?
My guess is they have not, but I feel they should, even if it means settling for three up/three down.
What do they have to lose?
One wonders if there is not a Restriction of Trade issue here? Perhaps when the National League has all 24 clubs that have been in the EFL, the blazers might just consider it?
FRANK PAVITT via email
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