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Greg Clarke's statement is the most powerful repudiation of the proposal yet - with a nasty, not-so veiled threat to the big clubs to wind their necks in. I was impressed

Oh I know. I was wondering what would happen if all the other big clubs set a Super League up anyway, would the English clubs not participate? Barca, RM, Bayern, Paris, Juve, Milan etc would have plenty of clout

I thought there were already plans for an increased number of CL games, regardless of any other changes. And I really, really can't see 14 EPL clubs voting for a reduction in the number of teams - I'm not even sure they'd get a majority for it EDIT: This is only considering English clubs...

People keep talking about the Big Six (and other European teams) wanting a European super league but I'm not wholly convinced about this. These clubs have a lot of clout and could easily set one up - and I'm sure would get TV money to back it. The fact they haven't done so suggests that a)...

It's a great rant - although given the way that the government has handled Brexit and Covid, I'm not sure I'd be too confident of their ability to sort out the mess by the way, I like his calculation that 19th club gets double what the 20th gets and the 18th double what the 19th ... and so on...

Yeah, but a Liverpool fan in charge of the EFL ... which will be considerably worse off if this deal goes through

That's a little detail that's not been mentioned. So, rather than being a bailout for the EFL, the clubs would end up with less money and see two of their number out of the door. The big question is: why is Rick Parry pushing this? It's clearly not beneficial to the EFL in the long term...

But the extra money is not taken from the teams in the PL: it will be taken from removing parachute payments and reducing the PL to 18 - the PL elite will still be OK I actually think that cutting parachute payments is a decent idea but the rest of it doesn't well thought out to me

David Conn in The Guardian was pretty supportive of the idea

And what happens in the following season when there's a motion that 90% of the PL income will go to the top nine clubs and the other nine share 10%? The Big Six clubs all vote for the motion and the following season, the rest of the PL have to work out how to pay £90m of wages with an income of...