- 1. Neil Warnock proving budget cuts no barrier to ambition as he inspires Cardiff
- (Stories)
- ... attempting to make a swift return. Those three seasons, between 2012 and 2015, resulted in cost cutting across the board, but Warnock has shown that ambition need not cost a fortune. With their parachute ...
- Created on 23 February 2018
- 2. The best and worst moments of 2017 ~ part two
- (Stories)
- ... manager was a ray of light in a division that has become bloated with parachute payments and murky soft power projects. Along with Burnley and Brighton it's something of a golden age for Premier Leag ...
- Created on 26 December 2017
- 3. Allams’ chaotic Hull City regime rapidly selling Leonid Slutsky down the Humber
- (Stories)
- ... reinvested. And that’s not to mention the parachute payments that give Premier League failures an unfair advantage over their Championship rivals, which City have sportingly opted not to use. Although ...
- Created on 25 August 2017
- 4. Clueless owners oversee a second relegation for Blackburn Rovers
- (Stories)
- ... parachute payments approaching £100 million. The BRFC Action Group presented a 400-page dossier asserting mismanagement to the FA, Premier League, EFL and to the sports minister but, with no action take ...
- Created on 09 May 2017
- 5. Grimsby back in the League and indulging in optimism
- (Stories)
- ... returned a transformed club, far more connected to the community. It took the team and the town a couple of years to overcome the profound shock of being in non-League as our Football League parachute ...
- Created on 04 August 2016
- 6. Owls ready to grasp Premier League chance against Hull
- (May 2016)
- ... sixth for a reason and are a work in progress – so Carvalhal has repeatedly stressed they are underdogs, which is true. Hull have the Premier League parachute payments, a manager with plenty of experience ...
- Created on 27 May 2016
- 7. System failure
- (Organisation & structure)
- ... ub/league relationship with other competition organisers eg UEFA; club ticket prices; club distributions and parachute payments." The areas the FA claim to be beyond their jurisdiction are where the p ...
- Created on 01 May 2012
- 8. Academy awards
- (Youth football)
- ... r parachute payments had run out, following their relegation to the Conference, the club simply shut down their youth team as it had become unsustainable. Clubs at the top of the EPPP scale will be ab ...
- Created on 21 December 2011
- 9. Help at hand
- (Non-League)
- The Conference has recently received a Premier League windfall. Andy Brassell is not alone in asking how, and why If you thought the Premier League was an insular, money-hoarding microworld of its own, ...
- Created on 21 September 2010
- 10. Snakes and ladders League One 2009-10
- (Season reviews)
- ... occurred at Walsall’s Banks’s Stadium where clubs from Leagues One and Two reluctantly accepted the Premier League’s take-it-or-leave-it deal on parachute payments. Most agree that this will further widen ...
- Created on 21 July 2010
- 11. Competitive edge
- (Organisation & structure)
- ... in the parachute payments from next year. Relegated clubs would receive £48 million over four years, an increase of more than £8m over the first two seasons with an additional bounty of £16m thereafter ...
- Created on 21 May 2010
- 12. Fall from grace
- (Clubs)
- ... pay for the failures of a handful of highly paid footballers. In the last financial year, the club lost £30,000 a day, and with the end of parachute payments and reduced League One incomes, things can ...
- Created on 21 August 2009
- 13. League ladders – Championship 2008-09
- (Season reviews)
- ... discontent of their fans a reflection of football about as appealing as the products that made Dave Sullivan his millions. Reading apart, recent refugees from the top flight gave the impression that parachute ...
- Created on 21 July 2009
- 14. Watford 2 Swansea City 0
- (Match of the month)
- ... for 80 minutes and their fans wonder how a club that had the cash from a Premier League season two years ago plus the contingent parachute payments can have financial worries. Swansea emerged from their ...
- Created on 21 April 2009
- 15. Bristol Rovers, Southampton, Boston
- (Sharp end)
- ... resolve its problems with the FA, it fell foul of the tax authorities. The FA retained the club’s parachute payments in order to settle the football debts but HMRC said it would wind up the club even if ...
- Created on 21 September 2008
- 16. A drop of comfort
- (Business & finance)
- Relegation is always seen as a financial blow as well as a football disaster, but parachute payments are giving sides an edge in their new divisions and some teams may even be better off. Tom Green explains ...
- Created on 14 July 2007
- 17. Leagues apart The Championship 2006-07
- (Season reviews)
- ... With parachute payments set to rocket, Championship clubs without a recent top-flight history could be forgiven for questioning whether striving for success against such financially advantaged competitors ...
- Created on 14 July 2007
- 18. Pick a club
- (Business & finance)
- ... can go up and that each season another three will drop down from the top level armed with parachute payments, not all of these prospective new owners are likely to achieve their aims. As Sir Jack Hayward ...
- Created on 14 May 2007
- 19. Mind the gap
- (Editorials)
- ... has been estimated to be worth around £40m, based on at least a season in the top flight followed by the “parachute payments”. This is likely to rise by around £15m when the new TV deal begins next season. ...
- Created on 14 February 2007
- 20. Pressure drop
- (Clubs)
- ... role models with their big debts, no more parachute payments, unbalanced squads and dwindling hope. In South Yorkshire and Berkshire, as promotion beckons, just know what you’re letting yourself in for. ...
- Created on 14 January 2006
