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Blue tinted optimist⭐
Don't believe what they say, which is all for public consumption.This is the outrage of it. The Premier League has mentioned in the past that they need the lower Leagues. Relegation and promotion of clubs of all sizes is part of the beauty of the game, they said. They have a massive increasing money pot sitting in the bank and growing each season, through sponsorship and TV rights. They could help to save quite a few clubs from going bust by giving a massive cash injection to each team in League One and Two, say a £million each, (Not to go to the players or staff, but general bills, debts and running of the club), and it wouldn't affect them in the slightest. Now is the time.
The Premier League do NOT want lower league clubs. They don't care. Some of them might; WBA, Fulham and the ones who have been in the lower leagues, but the big clubs don't.
They'd be in favour of a Premier 2, with all the teams that were "big" but for whatever reason are out of the Prem at the moment; teams like Birmingham, Forest, Sheff Wed, Coventry, Sunderland, Ipswich, Portsmouth, Blackburn etc.
But look at League 2; several clubs are what you would usually call non league but who are punching above their weight; Salford, Crawley, Harrogate, Barrow, Morecambe, Forest Green, Stevenage... they have nothing to offer the Prem, and in their eyes neither do we. They genuinely don't care if we all go to the wall.
I care by the way and have for years been saying that the big boys need to realise that they are only the top of the tree because there is a bottom. But we really don't matter in the grand scheme of things. As far as they are concerned, football was invented in 1992.