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Wednesday briefing: EFL chairman Rick Parry warns MPs that clubs face ‘existential crisis’

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11 January 2023 - 4:30 AM

English Football League (EFL) chairman Rick Parry has warned MPs of a “gathering existential crisis” unless the Premier League agrees to a new financial distribution model soon.

Writing in The Times ahead of a meeting on Tuesday, Parry said he would tell MPs from constituencies containing EFL clubs that it will be too late to wait for an independent regulator to force through a settlement.

He noted that such a move could be two-and-a-half years away, by which time “a subst

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