WHEN SKY INVENTED FOOTBALL

Some of the wealthiest owners in English football - including Mike Ashley of Newcastle and Joe Lewis at Spurs - have earned criticism for relying on taxpayer handouts to help pay the wages of their non-playing staff during the enforced Coronavirus lay-off.  Liverpool also planned to use the UK government's furlough scheme, but have since u-turned following an outcry from their fans.  

Adrian Goldberg discusses the issues with film producer and director Laurence Lennard, and there's input from Lee Pomlett, chairman of League 2 Walsall FC.

How does English football deal with the aftermath of the Coronovirus Pandemic of 2020?  A plan to null and void the season at lower levels of the men's and women's games has met with a fierce backlash, while the future of the professional game remains  resolutely undecided.  Chris Lepkowski, a sports journalism lecturer at Birmingham City University offers his thoughts, along with Gee Thacker of Stourbridge Ladies FC.

In the late 80's and 90's Charlton Athletic Fans organised as a political party to save their clubs and return it to its spiritual home The Valley.  In the last five years, they've had to mobilise again, this time to see off Roland Du Chatelet whose eccentric ownership model left the club floundering in debt.  Lifelong Addicks fan Dave Thomson, who was was a veteran of both campaigns, tells his story.