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The LeaguePaper Team
6 December 2020

Rescue act should have been swifter
THE date of the joint EFL and Premier League statement announcing that a rescue package had been agreed told a story in itself: December 3 2020.

Should it have taken until the final month of this bizarre year for the two parties to come to an agreement to protect the very existence of the Football League’s 72 clubs? Of course it shouldn’t.
Don’t forget, we’ve been living with coronavirus since March, the new season started in September. Clubs who were starved of fans for the bulk of the year have been on the brink for m...

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