Football League chair hits out with many clubs strugglingParry points to financial help given to ballet and operaFootball is “at best, being ignored” by the government and “at worst being victimised by it”, Rick Parry has claimed in an excoriating letter to the culture secretary, Oliver Dowden.
The EFL chair has been in negotiations with the government since the spring over a requested £250m bailout for his 72 clubs from the
Premier League. But with discussions between the two bodies at an impasse, and the government apparently reluctant to intervene, Parry has broken ranks.