‘Boris has a duty to help Posh’
PETERBOROUGH owner Darragh MacAnthony is ready to declare war on Boris Johnson to save EFL clubs.
The Posh are setting the pace at the top of League One but, financially, they need help. MacAnthony says he could investigate taking the Government to court to get it.
MacAnthony said in his ‘The Hard Truth’ podcast: “We are sinking and nobody is throwing us a life raft.
“Johnson and Oliver Dowden [Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport] are destroying our industry and they don’t care.
“I see cinemas are asking for a bailout. They have had one. Any danger of an industry that hasn’t had a bailout getting one?
“If all the owners got together, and I got us a top lawyer and raised £1million in legal fees, could we go to the High Court in the UK and reverse it?
“Because eventually someone has to say, ‘They are smothering the life out
MacAnthony of our industry and we need to fight back’.
“Tough times are coming and it’s not just the small clubs who are in trouble.
“The big clubs pay big wages because they get 25,000 crowds. They must be haemorrhaging £1m a month and I don’t know how many owners can sustain that.
“It’s almost as if the Government and the Premier League have to wait for clubs to go into liquidation.
“It’s not right. No clubs should go under.
“But I know clubs WILL go out of business. We are having a cull of staff and we need to talk to the players, because tough decisions are coming.
“I’ve got fans beating down my door asking for season-ticket refunds to be sorted, and they will be.
“But it’s keeping me awake at night.
“The Government seems to care about the arts and other industries, but they don’t care about us.”