Frustrated Peterborough United chairman believes the EFL want the 2019-20 League One season to be curtailed as crucial vote delayed by another 24 hours!

MacAnthony appears resigned to another season in League One as rival clubs line up to end the season now, while finalising league positions on a points-per-game method.

That would knock Posh out of the play-off picture and leave MacAnthony frustrated for a number of reasons.

Remarkably that League One vote has now been pushed back a further 24 hours to Tuesday, June 9 as the EFL did not get the ballot papers to the clubs on time. Clubs must be given five days to vote.

“I spoke to (EFL chairman) Rick Parry ages ago and I was told they were determined to finish the season whenever it was deemed safe to do so,” MacAnthony, who has changed part of his Twitter biography to read owner of Peterborough United ‘not allowed to play’ Football Club, said.

“I agreed obviously and based on what I was told then and what has been said by the EFL since I didn’t furlough my players like some clubs and made plans to make sure they would be ready for the re-start.

“Now, 10-11 weeks later, I believe the EFL don’t want us to play again and I’m effectively being told we won’t stay in our current position and that the season will be over for my manager and my players.

“My stance from the start of this whole thing has been to play. It’s what we do. It’s our business. I believe there are 8-9 clubs who still want to play, but too many still want to stay in hibernation and award fake promotions.

“Deciding promotions based on points per game is just ridiculous and not to yet have a final decision is just wrong. It’s been allowed to drag on for far too long. Everything could have been sorted out weeks ago.

“We could have sorted out the cost of the virus testing and we did sort out the issue with player contracts because we pay players throughout July anyway.

“We could still play on now. We’ve kicked the backside of this disease so health is no longer an excuse.

“The Premier League is opening up, the Championship is starting and leagues all over the world are opening up again.

“We could get the remaining fixtures played within 45 days.”

Posh promotion hopes appear to now rest on Tranmere’s proposal to apply a points-per-game average which includes a margin of error being accepted by the EFL clubs at Tuesday’s vote.

Posh added an eight-team play-off to the proposal in the hope of extending their own season while supporting Tranmere’s bid to avoid relegation.

The Tranmere proposal would see only leaders Coventry promoted automatically and with second-placed Rotherham joining Oxford, Wycombe, Fleetwood, Portsmouth, Posh, Sunderland and Doncaster in play-offs from which two teams would go up.