The World's Stupidest League Is BACK

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Published 2024-08-11
The Sky Bet Championship is the highest quality and most lucrative second tier in world football, yet it's also among the most reckless and unsustainable.

A year ago, I made a video about the craziness of the Championship, and since then, if anything, the situation has only gotten worse.

So in this video, HITC Sevens revisits the subject of Championship finances, the Championship and the EFL's new television and Premier League solidarity payment deals, and answers some of the biggest questions ahead of the 2024-25 season.

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All Comments (21)
  • @xkumanekox
    "The Championship is like crystal meth" - Alfie, circa 2024.
  • Under the radar but North End's campaign for an eighth finish between 9th and 14th in 9 years has got off to a cracking start btw
  • @ja1295
    The premier league has made english football boring. i see more and more people every year getting sick of the prem and go to their local lower tier sides for a more authentic football experience
  • @guanxvi
    It’s a shame Freddy Adu never played in the championship.
  • @primateboogaloo
    Bristol City's first game set a wonderfully predicatable precedent for the rest of the season.
  • League 1 is slowly becoming the championship, having that bit of unpredictability but the football is much worse and there is still a deft of money and infrastructure in the rest of the EFL, but that is a lot less than the rate of which the championship is becoming uneven
  • @chrisomarm
    Babe wake up, HITC sevens just uploaded
  • @GeliCarlosJ
    Prem fans complain about the Super League when the EPL is essentially a Super League in all but name. End parachute payments & increase money being sent to all EFL clubs instead.
  • @TylerAven10
    That ending to the Leeds Portsmouth match was everything my soul needed. So fucking back
  • @ifan_1234
    Alfie, the champions of the Welsh premier league are only a win away from qualifying for the Europa league/Europa conference this season. if they can beat petrocub by 2 goals or more at home then they will have secured a spot, if they can't beat petrocub then they'll fall to the Europa conference playoffs where they'll most likely face a side that are currently last in the Lithuanian league. if they qualify for a European competition, it will change domestic Welsh football completely. could you please make a video about the league and the predicament it's in?
  • In addition to Sky Sports, the EFL has also signed a deal with CBS Sports here in the US (I am American) to greatly increase the number of games that are on TV & make it easier for a growing number of fans to watch. The EFL is smart to do this as they join the Premier League, other European leagues like the Bundesliga, the NWSL, Liga MX & USL (which is basically the American version of the EFL minus the promotion/relegation aspect) in terms of being more accessible when it comes to watching games than our top domestic league MLS which thanks to Apple is behind a paywall. When it comes to leagues that are reckless & unsustainable, MLS is right up there with the Championship though some in the US soccer community would argue they are more reckless given the fact that in the past 6 months, MLS has threatened to pull its clubs out of the US Open Cup due to "fixture congestion" & further expanded its partnership with Liga MX to grow Leagues Cup into an alternative competition that would effectively end it & cutting off a source of revenue for USL. This is definitely a topic for HITC Sevens to look into and do a video on in the future.
  • @sumandark8600
    I've never tried crystal meth, so I can't really comment on it that way, but the blue version in Breaking Bad looks pretty
  • Your comment on American food regulation was hilarious and spot on.
  • @Dexterswfc08
    Parachute payments need to be scrapped , with the money being distributed to EFL clubs instead
  • @Ghetto_Meadow
    I love The Championship, its the perfect blend of disaster and disaster ...teams eating them selves to stay alive , teams eating other teams to stay alive , all in the hopes to be fodder for The Prem and to go right back down. Right now I think the story of the league is the Sammie Szmodics situation.
  • Football won't talk about this, they'd rather speak about how Man U, Man City, Liverpool etc are doing lol
  • I've done crystal meth and believe me football is the last of your worries!
  • @jeohist
    Parachute payments need to be scrapped, instead they should be wired to Alfie