MACCLESFIELD chairman Colin Garlick has called on the football community to act to save the national game as the repercussions of ITV Digital's collapse sweeps through the Football League.

Garlick said: "If there is no money forthcoming it is a problem which the FA, the Football League and the PFA together must act on immediately.

"They may have to accelerate their programme to restructure the game.

"This could mean regionalisation and the renegotiation of players' contracts to meet the shortfall in income."

Garlick, who is also chief executive, at the Moss Rose said the close season held nothing but uncertainty and that the club's normal preparations were now under a cloud.

"I attended last Thursday's chairmen's meeting and the positive thing is we are all 100 per cent behind the actions of the Football League's Executive in their continuing negotiations," he said. "It is the sort of unity that only a genuine crisis can engender and from which we can all draw renewed vigour for the fight ahead, and a fight it will be.

"At Macclesfield, along with our fellow professional clubs, we face the prospect of analysing every single aspect of our costs, including players' contracts.

"At this point we are putting no pressure on David Moss to adapt his plans to meet new budgets, but naturally we do have to take a cautious approach.

"In effect we cannot, at the moment, take the positive moves we would like to make and that we normally make at this time of the year, but must husband extremely carefully the resources we already have at our disposal."

Tweet