[St Charles Owl]

I've been reading how we could get back in the Football League. There are proposals to merge L2 and the National League Divisions into 'L2 North' and 'L2 South'. It would mean less travel, more fans at games, would bring in more revenue for clubs and have more local derbies. Financially in the current Coronavirus crisis it could see clubs through. Otherwise if clubs go bust then the Premier League B teams will be trying to get into the league and no one wants that do they?

Would it make more sense to merge L1 and L2? and to merge National League with National League North/South?

I am amazed that this hasn't been considered more seriously for L1 and L2. The revenue benefits are obvious with regards to far less travel and likely more local games with higher attendances. Carlisle v Exeter is a fixture that should not exist outside of the top 2 divisions!!!

My only question on this is who decides who is north and who is south? I am not old enough to remember how it used to work but if say the bottom 3 in the Championship are all in the Manchester area - say Bolton, Blackburn and Preston, where do they go and who would get promoted from the lower South league?? I have always wondered how that works!!