I'll bite....
1) Yes it was for greed 1000%; but the league is motivated by greed. Sean Dyche showed that doesnt just apply to the top 2/4/6 or whatever
2) Good of the game; they don't care about it across the board, they are purely balance sheet driven. There will be no problem coming to a self serving agreement between 14 clubs, it just wont be what was in project big idea
3) Fans - token dotage to ST's and regular matchgoing fans will happen but at the expense of the TV watcher. That's the PR winning middle ground they want
4) PL - again every club is self serving & if they could make more money by changing it they will
5) Pyrimid - Do you think Gold, Sullivan & Brady, the owners of Sheffield United etc care about the integrity of they pyrimid? Not a chance
6) Billionaire's - I agree; completely self serving greed.
7) Every single idea killed? - I doubt it, some are actually decent in fairness. How can anyone rationally argue against away tickets being capped and travel subsistence programs.
When the strategic review is done, I would happily wager that some elements of the big idea are adopted, many are binned and there will be some sort of mechanic for bailing out the EFL, but it will be smaller than proposed & TV rights (Probably only international) will end up more stacked in favour of the big franchises.
1) I keep seeing Sean Dyche rolled out. I disagree with his opinion, but he is just giving his opinion as someone who is powerless in this. He's paid to coach the team. For a starting point, his opinion doesn't make structural greed at the top of 2 clubs acceptable. I would also say, having an opinion, is not the same as orgaising behind your tade bodies back, a proposal which was so transparent in it's selfish greed towards yourself that it recieved literally no support at the first hurdle. Those 2 things are markedly different.
2) I think we all agree the proposal was terrible for the game.
3) You will have to explain the PR middle ground, I am unsure.
4) To a degree yes. However there are degrees in this. There are only 2 clubs, who have off piste decided that not only were they going to singularly try to resolve the challenges for lower league clubs, but actually then essentially steal from everyone else to do so. Nobody asked them to do it, yet they negotiated on behalf of the PL when they had no right to. They have done the equivalent, of walking past a homeless family, offered to give them money but then leveraged their misery to see what they could get for themselves. Then finally, expected their less well off neighbours to pay for their side of the bargain. It's disgraceful, and simply cannot be reduced to the standard level of coorporate self interest there is.
Not only that, but the league itself, and English football is built upon the sorts of bonds of comapniship and solidarity that exist within the working class communities they exist. These two clubs, fundamentally reject this notion. They want to break the spirit by which this exist, and thus break the very foundations with which English football was built upon. They are intruders from America, who have no idea of social solidarity, and are waging a war against us all. We need to understand this. Hiding behind reductionist cliches of "everyone has self interest" or whatever doesn't help us. It would be as stupid as saying in the midst of the miners strike that Scargill and Thatcher represented the same threat as they both have self interest. It's nonsense. They represent very different things.
5) I doubt they do no. But again they are not developing clandestine plans which would ultimately make the game more unequal. Thats the point here. Holding problematic views is one thing, acting upon it to attempt to make concrete changes that further derail the basis of the game is another. Noth need challenging, but there is a question of scale and severity here. Also the point about United/Liverpool is not to say "well Dyche and Sullivan are bad" it's more to say, if you want Dyche/Sullivan to stop being so greedy, then do something about the vanguards of greedy, selfish ideas.
6) We agree
7) I mean maybe. Maybe the charity Shield is lost. I think though, they will find the bits of the scheme that benefitted them are going to be a lot harder to get through than probably a week ago. They detrimentally impact on the other 14 teams, and as you say everyone looks out for their own interest. It's now been made very clear LFC and MUFC are only acting on their own interests.
