After Sunday’s statement on Project Big Picture we had a busy media day doing the rounds on Sky Sports News, BBC News, Talksport, 5Live and more - all selling the basic message that Project Big Picture would be a disaster for English football. Yes, an urgent financial package is needed, but it cannot sit alongside measures which simply hand all of the power and more of the money to billionaire owners who don’t understand our football culture.
Today we’ve posted this story - Project Big Picture: A sugar-coated cyanide pill - and we’re asking for all our affiliates / associates to deliver a strong message to their clubs on this. We hope that it helps arm you with some basic arguments. It’s especially time sensitive for our EFL members as the EFL clubs are apparently meeting today with the view to a vote on Thursday.
At tonight’s FSA National Council meeting this will be agenda item #1 and hopefully some good campaign ideas come out of that, while our chair (Malcolm Clarke) and vice chair (Tom Greatrex) will be at the FA Council on Thursday making the supporters’ case. The FA still have a golden share which, under PL rules, gives them a veto, so their importance cannot be underestimated.
Now that fan, Government, and PL exec opposition to these proposals are clear, we’re moving the argument towards the need for an urgent PL/Government finance package to remove the temptation for EFL clubs to vote in favour of the disaster which would be Project Big Picture.
Thanks,
Michael
Michael Brunskill
Head of communications
