“Attendance in League 2 is within the top 10 leagues in Europe” ⚽ EFL Chair Rick Parry | Up Front
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- čas přidán 19. 06. 2024
- This is Up Front with Simon Jordan. A show brought to you by William Hill that pulls no punches and tells it EXACTLY like it is.
On this week’s episode Simon sits down with EFL Chair Rick Parry, a true visionary in English football. As the top-flight’s chief executive, he brokered the largest TV rights deal in history at the time, £700million, and the division prospered. He was Liverpool’s chief executive for 12 years, presiding over that night in Istanbul. Now, in his current role as Chair of the English Football League, Parry continues to play a pivotal role in shaping the landscape of English football. We’ll delve into his experiences, insights, and the challenges he’s faced along the way.
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00:00 Introduction to Rick Parry
01:00 Podcast starts
01:31 The current landscape of football
02:26 The biggest challenges of football currently
03:46 The EFL
12:18 The formation of the Premier League
21:39 The FA’s role within the construction of the PL
25:32 Football during COVID
33:36 Parachute Payments
38:02 Politics/Social Causes in Sport
40:18 Being Liverpool CEO
44:12 What makes a good CEO?
47:24 Hicks and Gillett
50:03 Rafa Benitez
54:10 Liverpool now under FSG and Klopp
56:50 The future of the EFL
A superb, informative interview.
Rick Parry comes across as decent and honest and you can see and hear he loves football.
He was brilliant as CEO at Liverpool.
Simon Jordan interviews are proving to be top draw. He asks brilliant, searching questions and doesn't hold back with asking honest questions!
@@_Vespa_ explain????
Hi Simon.
Rick Parry , the best CEO My Club Liverpool FC has ever had , Brilliant interview #YNWA
Think this was the best episode, pure football
agreed...the most relaxed conversation yet...hope he has Parry back and does 2 hours!
That's how you have a grown-up discussion of differing opinions, unlike examples of a certain generation with the "I SHOUTED LOUDEST" mentality. Great show Simon, and another great episode.
Tbf a little bit more mature for Simons standards here.
Why are some people so insecure about themselves that they have to continually talk down other generations?
The English and German league systems are brilliant. Big clubs and enviable attendances from top the bottom.
Spot on with the Germans aswell
Definitely. In many other countries, huge percentages of football fans support the biggest 2-3 clubs. That includes Spain were it’s estimated that around 60% of fans support either Real or Barca.
In England and Germany, so many clubs that have no chance of even reaching the top flight in the short to medium future, let alone achieving anything beyond that, have large, passionate and loyal fanbases.
Really good interview, and I agree with Rick Parry, as a Liverpool fan FSG have been good owners
The EFL may not have the best footballers, but as an entertainment product, is way more exciting than the premier league. 72 clubs = Greatest show on earth!! Great vision. Great interview.
thats all great but footaball now is all about money and people abroad dont wana see second tier football
Or 12th tier football.
Not bothered about people abroad. Unlike the greedy league.
I don't agree...The premier league has some of the most exciting drama with some of the world's best players with elite technical ability and skill the championship club go to the prem and can't keep up
@@grahamwilliams3505💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯👍💪
Simon Jordan is so likeable and is on point with his guests. Relevant, interesting and insightful. Listen to him on Talksport everyday and in my humble opinion deserves a bigger role in sport
League 2 average attendance last season was 5,712, it was ranked 25th out of all the leagues in Europe in terms of average attendance for the 2022/23 season.
Yeah, it’s league one which is in the top ten most attended leagues in Europe.
@@gipgap4 Only if you go buy total attendance, not average.
I think they are using the figures of total attendance which is a little deceptive to the actual popularity of League 2 because they (also League 1 and the Championship) play more games than any other league in Europe, which skews the stats somewhat.
But even going by total attenance they aren't in the top 10.
True but if you look at how well supported some clubs are in L2 it’s still very impressive.
Thanks Simon i am really enjoying the podcast keep up the great work!
Brill insight into how things work but my big thing is if the Premier want to be so elite from the FA why should they be allowed the complete in things like the EFL Cup 🤔
Great episode!
Totaly agree with simon ,let the overpaid footballers just play football and stop sticking every colour armband and silly laces in there boots, just play f***ing football please
Truly fascinating insights. Thank you.
We should be proud of our wonderful pyramid system
Best episode yet in terms of the football league structures in England
Think I smashed that bird in your pic
@JayPea-lk5rt couldn't have were married nearly 2 years & nearly together 8 years as well.
Very enjoyable listen 👍
Fantastic episode! Pure football and the real problems our game is facing.
Great man Rick Parry! Real Gem!
Simon doesn't half come off as a thin-skinned man at times, the Moores pendant story is hilarious. Presumably he's forgotten his players mouthing off after they beat us in the first leg and then them all collectively shitting it at Anfield.
Hahaahaha
Emergent strategy (Henry Mintzberg) ...Strategy emerges over time as intentions collide with, and accommodate, a changing reality.
Great episode Simon
Good watch this, but i suspect this video wont do as well as some of the other videos. Mainly because most people wont have a clue who Rick Parry is. But i enjoyed it.
Liverpool supporters do , specially during Rafa's successful time
I think one of the problems with the EFL is that it is 3 very different leagues. The Championship could probably stand on its own feet if it went to a 20 team 'Premier League 2' league and the EFL was League 1 and 2.
You could also add the National League with 2 automatic promotion places.
@@tangerinesoulman Yep. If you went to 20 teams in Championship and the same in League 1, there would probably be enough then to have North and South League 2 with some of the National League teams added as well.
The premier league can say supermarket’s don’t subsidise the corner shop but supermarkets are not stock by the corner shop like the premier league is
They r stocked by academies and foreign leagues tho.
This is gonna be interesting. I just wish the ridiculous 10 pt reduction Everton received had been known..... damn!
Sir Simon = Top LAD Proper Clobber 💯 Facts
Bore off
he has learning needs@@benarcher7411
@@benarcher7411 he now needs to back the courage of his convictions I think? Lol
Best episode
Brilliant
Be a real interesting one this,you can't dispute the job Parry has done with the prem then Liverpool & now the efl..Deano,Hull city loyal
The formation of the PL wasn’t a problem, it was sky getting the contract to get customers to buy matches. Murdoch was ruthless enough to win the contract and took the game away from the working-class fan.
This needs a movie or a series for sure, Netflix are mucking about, while you have great stories. 🤦♂️
Easily the best episode, too many of your guests answer questioning poorly. Should be getting on people that can string a sentence together like Rick.
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47:37
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It's great to see English football booming after the relative dark days ofthe 80's.
Of course some will instist fotball was better back then and what with the back pass rule, so many teams playing for goalless draws (due to only 2 points being given for a win) cap pitches and the long ball game being in vogue, who could blame them 🙄
It really does make you wonder why so many more people are attending games now, despite the higher ticket prices 🤷♂
That said, it's not accurate at all to claim attendance in League 2 is within the top 10, although the number are still imprssive.
The real problem is the different organisations all have self interest. In England we have 3 organisations the PL, EFL and FA. Parry is in the EFL gang so isn’t interested in football as a whole, he’s only bothered about the EFL. Also regards money distribution, if the EFL receive more money it will simply drive up salaries and transfer rates in the EFL, so the extra income will have zero real effect regards helping clubs survive.
Haven’t listened yet, but depending on the context of that title, that’s absolute hyperbole verging on a lie. League 2 avg attendance is nowhere near top 10 euro league avg attendance. Not even in the same universe. I could name 20 euro leagues with higher avg attendances, and if we’re talking total attendance, League 2 clubs play 46 games each, plus potential playoffs (far higher than most euro leagues)
Don’t let reality get in the way of the ‘best in the world’ rah rah. Embarrassing.
Name them
But the EFL was offered a great deal for 25% when the gap was 11M. The EFL said NOOOOO. Now its 3 Bill, you want a cut????? How does this make sense?
28:00
How about giving Birmingham city a decent ref for a change
I think I'm right in saying in the end didn't the Premier League put a £250 million bailout package together for the 72 EFL clubs didn't they when COVID-19 rocked up onto our shores.
And without knowing the ins and outs of how much money the Premier League has at it's disposal SO THEY BLOODY SHOULD OF!!!
I remember Simon Jordan saying something to the effect of the SPL clubs have £40 million worth of TV money to share between themselves every year but in comparison Brighton were given £115 million alone at the start of last season in TV money from being in the Premier League that season so it's not as though the top division in England is hard up for money is it?
facts are is all about money they dont care about league 1 or 2 or any other league apart from pl
Get Gary neville on
The ‘facts’ press conference is always a stick to beat Rafa with and that Stoke draw is justified. Unfortunately Man Utd were probably the best team they ever had with Rooney, Ronaldo and Tevez. Liverpool had Robbie Keane for the first half of the season who did well but then Benitez sold him back to Tottenham. Had he stayed, who knows we might have won it. 4 points was the difference. Liverpool were brilliant that season but for that Man Utd team. Also Rafa Benitez was right. Man Utd got everything. The media, FA authorities were all scared of Ferguson.
We only lost two games in the league that season if I remember right,but to many draws,I only missed 3 games that season.
I’d rather have 300 semi pros in England on 1 a week than pogba on 300. Simple
Was lucky to get the job
SIMON.YOU TALK ABOUT ENGLISH PLAYERS BEING LAZY AND I TOTALLY AGREE. PLEASE GET DAVID FLITCROFT ON THE SHOW.HE SAID THAT YEARS AGO.PLEASE HAVE HIM ON SOMETIME TO TALK ABOUT IT
Why you shouting bro
Crikey Simon was so irritating here. Stop trying to predict what the other guy is going to say next. Just constantly looks like you’re trying to be clever.
Very good episode but I think Simon needs to stop trying to finish people's sentences.
Need to look at what ESPN and Pat McAfee are doing with College football in America, yes it not the top tier league but market it different then the prem, have targeted fan zones with the media in the middle, allow swearing, drinking and back an forth…people would watch as there crying out for less “family” entertainment and more fun adult humour and dare I say it “banter!”…what have they got to loose, the prem has to be PC, let the championship be a space to relax that, give the views a different product, there a massive market for it
It's hoof ball tho. Without foreign managers and players it's just boot it high up the pitch and hack people down etc
English Football from top to bottom is in our DNA unfortunately it's the top that's chopping and changing the rules of the game and making it laughable. Football fan 40 plus years English
(P)Rick Parry the most hated man in Birkenhead after he demoted our club, his local club BTW, using a calculator
There is no pyramid! The top five levels are all about the same size. Has anyone looked at a pyramid? It gets wider as you go down.
Wick Pawwy
F the EFL COYO's
Funk the EFL......SWA
The uniqueness of the pyramid, what the fuck. All the top leagues have a pyramid below them. Numpty.
Yeah but in the UK it is fantastic. Germany looks good on the surface but does not have the depth of the UK.
@@Mike-br8zt
You have no idea what unique means.
@@danielberry4765 Ingurland is da best
@@Mike-br8ztbig follower of the German leagues?
@@danielberry4765is your numpty quote a self analysis moment
Any chance the Murcockz can go back to football and stop polluting our freedom of information
I find most of these a good watch. However i lasted about 5 minutes on this one😂 zzzzz
Why do we assume we are entitled to 110+ full-time professional teams? Germany, Spain, Italy don't.
Absolutely correct, there really isn't room for that many professional clubs
We invented the game. We should be at the top.
The English pyramid is awful a majority of the club are in debt they should make league 2 a part time league
@@martinharvey2390what you said is true. I follow rugby league in Australia. And a few of their teams had to merge to survive. I can see the same happening in football in the UK. Might take decades, but it will happen. I think they'll only be 16 teams in the Premier league in the future as well. To accommodate European super leagues
Part time clubs struggle just as much, it's not the answer
Commercially, English football has never been so healthy. Sporting-wise, it's never been more unhealthy. It's become sterile, the actually game of football - not the business side - has become poorer because of the money. Just watch the old first division era of the 70s and 80s and you will see what I mean
"Biggest names in sport" 😂😂😂
If you don't think Parry is indeed one of the biggest names in sport, then you don't know very much about sport mate.
@@gillie-monger3394 firstly im not your mate,secondly parry is old news and has been interviewed millions of times,its 2023 not the 90s
@@brenb70 so he was a big name back in the 90s,thanks for confirming my point 👍
@@rogercooke4589 Parry is big news pal. He's about as current as it's possible to be regarding English football. He's the guy responsible for the formulation and implementation of the Premier League ffs. He's now the Chairman of the EFL. That's 72 professional clubs with millions on turnover, for which in no small part he is responsible for. Just because you don't care what happens out side the PL doesn't mean it's not important. Every guest Jordan has on has been interviewed "millions" of times. If you're so uninterested what Parry has to say wtf did you bother watching the podcast?? You just sound bitter and a tad sad tbh.
@@gillie-monger3394 the premier league was formed in the 90s,as I said he is old news imo,I couldnt care less what you think and I am sure its vice versa so please just move on
This guy has no clue . As liverpool fan he was the worst person employed
I’m bored with the top flight… the only way to turn that wonky pyramid up the right way is with OUR FEET.. look into your local semi pro club and build it up as a supporter
! I think we would be happier fans !
I’ve been a lifelong United supporter , but recently I have found a trip to see Stockport County feels like a breath of fresh air. Nice friendly club, good family crowd , great chippy nearby. Non of the hype and some good football, just look where they currently sit in their particular league. I was there when they played a United Under 21 side and only lost on penalties. Couldn’t actually see more than a couple of the United squad worth all the fuss , which is worrying .
@@stevensarson482 exactly 🙌🏼
@@stevensarson482I support United too, let’s hope Wilder performs some magic for us. UTB
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I guess I just want to watch a good game and smell the liniment!
Why wasn't Parry asked the question that is the elephant in the room which everyone in The PL, EFL, FA, PFA, Talksport and sports media are looking the other way instead of confronting : the coercion campaign for players to have the very questionable Covid vaccines, and which has resulted in a huge surge of unexplained sudden deaths among previously fit and healthy young sportspeople?
Mortality last year among even youngest age group was lower in the ever vaccinated than unvaccinated categories.
Data. ONS. Not anecdotes.
What were the numbers?
😂😂😂
Surely this question applies to the entire general UK population and not just athletes?
Unfortunately the mainstream media (including youtube) have proven that they are woefully inadequate at asking the difficult questions.
Nonsense
I sit listening to this red cartel protectionist feeling an incredible sense of pride that my club managed to blow the doors off his and his friends plans to restrict competition, such a shame no other clubs fans will get to experience what I did these past few years....... Ultimately I would like to see a level playing field, a true level playing field I'd give every trophy and penny we have to see it. This charade of equality based on accepting crumbs from the red cartel table is sickening. Sadly the likes of Parry, Gill et al never stop behind the scenes to ensure the monopoly remains and the show rolls on...... Interesting conversation thank you 👍
You're run by a country ffs is that lost on you.
The England is best hyperbole needs to stop. My local team Southend charges over 20 quid a ticket. They are a non league club. Teams on the continent don’t charge ridiculous sums of money for a terrible product.
Simon I don't lile politics in sport unless it's right wing politics has never liked Rafa. So naturally Rafa is a good man.
I wish Simon would stop trying to prove to us how much he knows and attempting to finish all of Parry’s sentences. Parry’s also very fidgety.
Annoying
Parry’s dress sense is utterly terrible
Fancy dress
Brilliant