Scots clubs in League talks

Adrian Curtis13 April 2012

Bradford chairman Geoffrey Richmond confirmed today that informal discussions have already taken place with Scotland's Celtic and Rangers about the prospect of them joining a revamped Football League.

Work on overhauling the current system began today with Football League chief executive David Burns and chairman Keith Harris agreeing to undertake a feasibility study based on the Phoenix League project to set up a second tier of the Premiership.

Richmond's club and five other Division One sides - Manchester City, Wolves, Coventry, Birmingham and Sheffield Wednesday - had threatened to break away from the League if their proposals to explore a radical overhaul of the three divisions outside the Premiership had been rejected.

League chiefs will now work together with the Football Association and the Premier League to come up with a new scheme to redistribute TV cash and investigate changes to the divisional set-up.

Their review is, however, unlikely to adopt any new ideas until the £315 million TV deal with ITV Digital expires in 2004.

Richmond said: "There is significant support within the Premier League for the formation of a Premiership Two.

"It is a question of when rather than if it is created."

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