Evening Telegraph (First Edition)
Championship could be back on the ball in October says Ton chief
SCOTTISH Championship clubs aim to play a full season from October, Morton chief executive Dave MacKinnon has revealed.
An increased number of midweek games would take place later i n the campaign to allow the division to catch up when fans have more of a chance of being allowed in grounds.
MacKinnon made the assumption that Hearts would be in the Championship as he spoke about the discussions, including advanced plans for second-tier clubs to provide high-quality live streaming services.
“The Premiership is looking to start in August and we’re looking in the Championship to catch on to that to probably start in October,” MacKinnon told his c l u b ’s Y o u Tu b e channel.
“I would imagine over the next week or so we are able to get some concrete starts.
“We are also looking at the Betfred Cup, how we can incorporate that and the Scottish Cup.
“We are looking to get a full programme in, which is going to mean some midweek games, but we are trying to back-end it so that, when fans are eventually coming into stadia, we have a lot of games.
“There is a huge amount of work behind the scenes and we seem to be getting some light at the end of the tunnel.”
Meanwhile, time appears to be running out for Ann Budge to strike a reconstruction deal that would save Hearts from relegation.
Budge had put forward a 14-14-14 or 14-14-16 league set-up to be discussed.
However, MacKinnon said: “Ann Budge wants to have reconstruction for two years.
“That’s never going to happen because, as a consequence of that, and I pointed it out to her, if it was reverted back (to four leagues) it would simply mean that six clubs from the Championship would be relegated and a seventh would go into a play-off.”