Football League is to lessen the advantage of parachute payments

• Relegation set-up could undermine financial fair play rules• Championship clubs receive only £2.3m in solidarity payments The Football League is to examine urgently a range of measures, including a potentially radical salary cap in the Championship, to offset the effect of vastly increased parachute payments for relegated Premier League clubs that it claims could fatally undermine competition. Following a summit meeting of all 24 Championship clubs the Football League board was ...