Peterborough chief reveals Portsmouth and other league clubs face £13m TV bill for curtailed season in EFL blast

And the Peterborough owner has rounded on the EFL for their lack of leadership through the Coronavirus crisis.

The Irishman is maintaining his quest to finish the campaign on the pitch in line with Pompey’s stance.

Blues chief executive, Mark Catlin, has been pinpointing the financial impact of curtailing games as many clubs focus on the costs of continuing.

And MacAnthony confirmed that includes a likely £13m hit for clubs from Sky for calling time on the season.

MacAntony said on his podcast, Football Club Chairman - The Hard Truth: ‘In the EFL meeting Rick Parry confirmed there’s a potential £13m refund to Sky for failure to finish and give them the games they’ve paid for.

‘The Championship would have to eat 80 per cent of that and with adding play-offs on we may be able to get the cost down for League One.

‘The bottom line was with it would be £50-£100,000 per club in League One.

‘It may be repayable over a year or two, but there’s going to be a cost and there is going to be a refund and there is going to be cheques and balances.’

MacAnthony intimated there’s frustration among League One clubs at the lack of guidance over the financial impact of both ending the campaign early and seeing it to fruition.

He also highlighted frustration at being given a bill for £120,000 training costs on the eve of a League One summit, in the event of continuing games.

He added: ‘I found it funny they dropped on us the cost of training the day before

‘There was no pre-plan it was “this is the cost of training”.

‘What’s frustrated a lot of us with the EFL through the whole process is they’ve never given us a financial model on what it would cost to start the season up.

‘They’ve never given us financial guidance on what would happen if we don’t finish the season.

‘It’s been very much “yeh, we want to finish the season then it’s been down to clubs to vote - and by the way it’s £120,000 to test your players to finish the nine games”.

‘Well sorry that’s not right and if I’m going to be critical of the EFL, I have to say it how it is. That’s just wrong.’