Covid’s effect on Non-League Football With every industry in the country being affected football was no different, with teams at the very bottom in non-divisions being affected the worst as I found out first hand after speaking with a player and club representative from Northern Premier League – West side Ramsbottom United. Whilst teams at the very top of the pyramid were still seeing television payments coming in to their club and their competitions continuing as normal, there was little for them to be concerned about from a financial perspective. Indeed, they were assured they would still be receiving payments at the end of the season. This gave the clubs some sort of security and allowed them to start putting things in place for the next season as they knew they would still have at least a set amount coming in at the end of the year. The EFL also shared some of this security with their season still being allowed to continue. Although the EFL rely on gate ...
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