D-DAY FOR EFL CLUBS

EFL clubs will today vote on how to complete the season – with Leagues One and Two to decide whether or not to cut the campaign short. The EFL board has proposed a system which would keep promotion and relegation, retain the four-team play-offs and decide final league tables on an unweighted points-per-game basis, but several other proposals have been put forward.

Most Championship clubs have always said they want to resume the season and the league is pencilled in to start again on June 20.

The remaining nine rounds of fixtures are set to take place over a six-week period before a play-off campaign. Twice-weekly virus testing is in process and there are strict safety protocols in place. Only a drastic turn of events will stop the season from being completed. The

League One clubs are at loggerheads over how to proceed. Clubs not favoured by a PPG system, like Tranmere and Peterborough, want to carry on while others say they cannot afford to play with no matchday income.

Those clubs against PPG will lead the fight for a vote to finish the campaign.

But there seems a decisive will to end the season, with some club owners saying up to 15 clubs will vote to curtail – more than the 12 required.

League Two clubs made a unanimous indicative vote three weeks ago to end their season on an unweighted PPG basis, with promotion and relegation standing and a four-team play-off campaign remaining.

The main reason behind that decision was a financial one, with players on furlough and income streams instantly drying up because of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the game.

It seems highly unlikely that a second vote today would yield a different result.