I can assure you its not the minority, on football supporter specific forums, the view is overwhelmingly against the big picture, and also of trading league games for international tournaments in general. The FA have been distancing themselves from it, and liverpool and the others cowarded away in the EPL meeting, as they knew public opinion was hugely against it.
I am starting to wonder are you pretending to be a small club fan, as you are text book glory supporter here is what you want.
Control by the glory clubs
Shrink the league
Kill the league cup.
More glamour competitions.
That's text book glory supporter.
Also i see the poll still has no 20 team league "and" bailout the league.
Also yes the TV companies will want what makes them more money, no surprise there, but TV companies dont necessarily represent people.
I'm starting to wonder if English is your first language or whether you just have reading difficulties.
Firstly, I said you're in the minority in terms of people wanting more big European games, not in relation to project big picture. Please don't try to twist words or change your argument because you just make yourself seem desperate when you do that. Your last sentence is laughable. Broadcasters are doing this because of money but not because it represents what viewers want
Oh dear. How do they expect to make more money if viewers don't want these games? What do you think is attracting more viewers, Burnley vs anybody or Utd - Bayern Munich? And if you answer that question truthfully you'll see how you're in the minority. I have no issue if you personally don't want more European football but viewing figures are telling broadcasters that the masses do.
As for your point about the FA distancing themselves from it. You obviously didn't read the latest two articles from David Conn. They have emails showing that Greg Clarke, the chairman of the FA, not only instigated the whole thing but was the single biggest driving force for it. As I posted last night, he put forward the idea that the restructured CL (and likely threat of a breakaway League) along with covid made it the right time to push these proposals through. Greg Clarke's initial plans went even further than what was eventually leaked. He proposed ripping up the pyramid altogther and allowing PL B teams in the EFL, something the others involved in the talks rejected. It's not just the FA that were involved and in favour of these plans but the Chairman of the PL was shown the plans and in favour too! Like Greg Clarke they chose to pretend otherwise after the event but somebody's been leaking emails that shows they're little liars. But this is just noise now. We know that the biggest, most powerful figures in English football have all been involved in these proposals - change is going to come, we can only hope it's for the best.
You're a typical, hysterical and hypocritical small 14 fan. I've said on these forums for over 10 years that I'm in favour of fan ownership coupled with far greater revenue sharing (similar to what they have in the US) and spending caps/ffp. It's all or nothing though. You're not going to get revenue sharing without fan ownership and you cannot put FFP into place (fairly) without revenue sharing. Now obviously you don't want to acknowledge that because I highlight the hypocrisy of you and the club you support. You, like many others don't actually want to look at the bigger picture and prefer to be so shocked and offended that Liverpool & Utd were trying to keep more money for themselves and want to divert away from suggestions that the other 14 clubs stance is exactly the same.
The above is the exact point Neville and co made last night. There was so many good parts of Project Big Picture that should be being discussed. You don't have to agree with certain points but who in their right mind doesn't want:
- Greater distribution of revenue to the EFL, reducing the gap between the top of the EFL and bottom of the PL.
- Reduced away ticket prices and subsidised travel for supporters.
- A proportion of TV revenue being reserved for stadium and infrastructure work - instead of every penny being blown on transfers and wages, if a cut of TV money could only be spent on infrastructure work then it will encourage owners to build better facilities.
- Increased likelihood that Burnley are out of the PL by reducing the PL to 18 teams.
You can want those things without wanting the bad parts. I know this is the internet and you've got to by hysterical and jumpt from extreme to extreme but still we can at least try to debate sensibly.
And finally, your question about the poll. Two reasons, the small 14 clubs have continuously voted against giving the EFL a proper bailout (the dirty greedy ********s not wanting to help those below them!!!!) and because a one off bailout doesn't solve the issues for the EFL. How many EFL sides have gone into administration or on the brink of administration in the years before covid? The current structure and distribution of money is ****ed. The gap in revenue between the bottom of the PL and top of the EFL, along with parachute payments is what has caused the EFL to eat itself alive. And lets get this crystal clear, the reason for the massive gap in revenue and the parachute payments are designed to do one thing, protect the smallest PL sides, not your Liverpool's and Utd's. You and other small 14 hypocrits want to scream and shout about a closed shop at the top of the PL but the PL has been desgined to be a closed shop at the bottom, further highlighted by the PL's decision not to offer Champioship sides a bailout and to put conditions on any bailout to League 1 and 2 sides. The small 14 want their place in the PL to be as secure as possible and money is distributed in a way that whoever gets relegated has a massive financial advantage when it comes to getting promoted back into the PL. Obviously this doesn't suit your agenda though
