Anger At Top Clubs' ‘Backroom Deal' To Restructure Football
Daily Express|October 12, 2020
Football faced a major rift yesterday over radical plans to overhaul the game’s top division.
Carl Markham
Anger At Top Clubs' ‘Backroom Deal' To Restructure Football

The blueprint would see the Premier League reduced from 20 teams to 18, give greater powers to the so-called “Big Six” clubs and signal the end of the League Cup and Community Shield.

Yesterday the Premier League called the intervention by Rick Parry – chairman of the English Football League – “disappointing” and said the Project Big Picture proposals could have a “damaging impact” on the game.

In return, the EFL – which represents the 72 clubs in the Championship, League One and League Two – would receive 25 per cent of the Premier League’s annual income stream.

Mr Parry, who was one of the founders of the Premier League in 1992, said: “It is definitely going to be challenging and it is an enormous change so that won’t be without some pain.

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