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GREGOR ROBERTSON: When will our noise be heard?

Almost two years have passed since it emerged that the EFL were ready to offer three promotion places to the National League as part of the “New Deal for Football” – the proposed financial reset resulting in more Premier League funding for the lower leagues, which instead ended in deadlock, squabbling, self-interest and silence.

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Gregor Robertson
25 August 2024

Gregor ROBERTSON
FOOTBALLER TURNED JOURNALIST

ALMOST two years have passed since it emerged that the EFL were ready to offer three promotion places to the National League as part of the “New Deal for Football” – the proposed financial reset resulting in more Premier League funding for the lower leagues, which instead ended in deadlock, squabbling, self-interest and silence.
When Wrexham and Notts County were embroiled in their record-breaking battle for the National League title in 2022-23, a light was shone on the inequity of a structure that grants only two promotion places to the Nation...

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