Bonus: Project Big Picture | Stadio Podcast

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4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Musa and Ryan record a short bonus episode reflecting on the leak of details regarding the proposed Project Big Picture. They discuss some key points involved in the plan, which would send much-needed funding to lower tiers of English football in exchange for placing greater powers in the hands of nine Premier League clubs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What was that laugh for? I'm laughing at the fact that you said there was ruined football for one more
0:06.0	podcast and now you've got more than you can possibly handle. I find that hilarious. The Hello and welcome back to a special bonus edition of the
0:35.4	Stadio podcast and Ringer FC I'm Meisquanga I'm Ryan Hun and today we are talking
0:40.0	about Project Big Picture, Big Picture.
0:44.0	What a shit name?
0:46.0	Yeah, I mean, we, yeah, I know.
0:48.0	Strange title, Project Big Picture, I mean...
0:51.0	Is it?
0:52.0	A more accurate description be project corporate coup I guess it's what it kind of is so
0:58.3	in outline the Premier League's longest established clubs have proposed a bailout for clubs in the leagues below
1:06.4	the Premier League, which would involve giving substantially more power to nine clubs than the rest of the league basically so preferential
1:15.8	voting rights. Yeah I mean the long story show means that the plan would be
1:20.4	for initially 250 million pounds to go from the Premier League to the three
1:26.7	tiers below it.
1:29.2	This is the amount that Rick Perry was after, who's the chair of the EFL, the English foot
1:34.8	willing. The two drivers behind it apparently are John Henry from Liverpool and
1:40.3	Joel Glazer from United. So Manchester United and Liverpool are apparently the two clubs who are the driving forces behind it.
1:47.7	Now, it's got a lot of pushback, this stuff.
1:51.4	Rightly so.
1:52.1	And I think the main reason why is because the traditional, what they call
1:56.3	the top six, the Manchester United, Manchester City, Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal spurs,
2:01.6	plus Everton, West Ham and Southampton.
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