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Rick Parry talks about how to protect the EFL, the League Cup and the football 'Pyramid'.

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The Old Spice Boys
Episode • Oct 29, 2021 • 50m

Join Neil Harman and John Richardson as the talk to Rick Parry  the current chairman of the EFL, the former chief executive of Liverpool, the original CEO of the Premier League and a board member at New York Cosmos.

Rick talks about: 

  • How long would the Football League survive if there wasn't a dramatic reset of football finance?

  • The dangerous absurdity of the Premier League parachute payments

  • The latest on Derby County, currently in the hands of the administrators

  • Why a World Cup every two years would be a catastrophe

  • Are there enough people in the English game with the vision to secure its future?

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