Premier League reform proposals

[chrisw1]

I think it's a no from Martin as well.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-8829033/MARTIN-SAMUEL-Liverpool-Man-Uniteds-Project-Big-Picture-disgusting-Big-Six-power-grab.html

That's a fantastic article and every football fan should read it (even if it does mean clicking a Daily Mail link)

[Big Ming]

I wonder whether last weeks pastings for Poo and Manure helped to hurry things along.

The Hegemony is threatened, n'est pas?

[olaftab]

Can I just say Rick Parry is a ******.

[chrisw1]

Future prize money based on a 3 season average, just so they can keep their feet on the necks of any upstarts who have a good season.

It's great that the want to give the EFL some money.  Why dont they split this based on average revenue over the last 3 seasons?  Surely that is fair?

[Marlon From Bearwood]

They care so much that they want to control it. Not empower it, no, nobody else, apart from those who have the most money, have the ability to think for themselves.

Perhaps Liverpool are Jacob Rees Mogg and ManUtd are Boris Johnson....

Yep, considering Liverpool fans (the scouse ones anyway) like to see themselves as Tory-hating socialists it’s ironic that their club regularly behave like proper Tories.

[olaftab]

The three additional clubs thing is like the Americans invading somewhere under the guise of NATO or a "Coalition" when everyone knows it's all about them and their quest for World domination.

It's even worse. It represents the kind of treachery and deceitfulness that medieval lords would have been proud of. A fucking awful idea.

[Abbeyfealeavfc]

Replace "big 6" with "sky 6" and then you have the initial source of the problems within modern football. That's without even mentioning var (another tool to keep the sky 6 that one step ahead).

[Drummond]

I  do wonder if they revel in being hated. Just when you think you couldn't hate them any more they come out with this shite. I bet even their own fans think it's shit. Except the glory hunters of course. So not many then. Oh well.

[Big Ming]

All you need to know about this 'plan' is that it was devised by Fenway Sports and the Glaziers.

[ChicagoLion]

Be interesting to see how many of the 6 stick with it if it gets kicked out, they will have anticipated this happening.
What is important is that the other clubs get together pretty quickly and form a negotiating block.
'The Mighty Reds YNWA' and Manure know that they attract more viewers around the world than all the other clubs put together. Their problem is finding teams to play against whilst exploiting this phenomenon.
This is just the beginning.

[fbriai]

I think it's a no from Martin as well.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-8829033/MARTIN-SAMUEL-Liverpool-Man-Uniteds-Project-Big-Picture-disgusting-Big-Six-power-grab.html

That's a fantastic article and every football fan should read it (even if it does mean clicking a Daily Mail link)

Completely agree. Martin Samuel has for a long time been superb at cutting through to the essence of a football story. Quite brilliant.

Pretty much everything has been said on this now. It's just an absolute disgrace from start to finish.

[ChicagoLion]

Yes the article is spot on. Well done Martin Samuel.

[kippaxvilla2]

Under this new proposal our new owners would have almost certainly have been rejected by the new voting system.  Despite the fact they were saving us from going out of business.  That’s how bad this proposal is.

[Lastfootstamper]

Can I just say Rick Parry is a ******.

Funnily enough, I heard him on the radio this morning and had exactly the same thought.

[Holte132]

So Manchester Utd and Liverpool want to reduce the number of clubs in the PL by 2 - seems there is one obvious solution!