Chris Dunlavy

CLOSING ‘CHUTE PAYMENT WILL DO FOR ME…

by
The LeaguePaper Team
25 January 2026

Chris Dunlavy
A FRESH TAKE ON FOOTBALL

PLEDGE: David Kogan

DAVID Kogan, the chair of the new football regulator, has promised to review the impact of parachute payments on the EFL. It shouldn’t take long, and it certainly won’t require the “indepth analysis” the watchdog has pledged to undertake.
A ten-year-old with a basic understanding of maths would recognise that giving three clubs vastly more money than everybody else in the Championship will distort competition.
They might also point out - quite correctly - that it will encourage reckless overspen...

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