In the two-and-a-half years since EFL chairman Rick Parry told a select committee that football needed a ‘financial reset’, the Government have burnt through Prime Ministers, Chancellors and Sports Ministers at a rate to rival any trigger-happy club chairman.
And negotiations with the Premier League over a new funding package have yet to begin.
Behind the scenes, several solutions to the sport’s funding crisis have been discussed and many discarded — Project Big Picture, the European Super League, the Premier League’s Strategic Review, Tracey Crouch’s Fan Led Review, the New Deal for Football — making it all the more bizarre that representatives of the 92 professional clubs have been unable to have meaningful dialogue.