Portsmouth chairman Michael Eisner has warned of a looming financial catastrophe in the Championship after Pompey became the latest second-tier club to post losses. Eisner, 84, the former CEO of Disney, fears English football has become dangerously imbalanced with the wealth of the Premier League masking the problems below. "There are dark clouds hovering over the English football pyramid and it seems to me there could be a real collapse where only the Premier League survives," said Eisner. The combined operating loss of the 24 teams for the last full set of published results in 2023-24 was £411m. "No club can survive for the long-term in this system and if that continues, catastrophe will happen.

Source: BBC March 18, 2026 19:58 UTC