(22 Apr 2024, 12:07 am)deanmachine wrote Maybe its due to Gateshead Council, they have a feeling they're going to sell the International Stadium and it'll leave Gateshead high and dry so the EFL have straight up said no?

It's both imo. 

The EFL for insisting on a rule, which is potentially meaningless anyway. The timing of the announcement, shambolic. 

And the council for seemingly not being interested or able to resolve.