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The only serious obstacle to ”Project Restart” should be health & safety, but the PL’s bottom six raise a new issues at every turn. We shouldn’t be surprised. English football’s crazy financial model breeds brazen self-interest. It dominates this argument https://theathletic.com/1806000/2020/05/14/norwich-watford-west-ham-aston-villa-premier-league-coronavirus-restart/?source=user_shared_article
e.g. this idea that there should be no promotion/relegation if Championship can't restart. It's not a crazy argument -- many agree -- but there's no way e.g. Norwich/Villa would have gone along with that a year ago, or Bournemouth/Watford in 2015 (contd) https://theathletic.com/1806000/
or Brighton in 2017 or West Ham in 2012 or, frankly, Newcastle in 2017 or Man City in 2002. Would Leeds or West Brom be eager to restart if they were in the bottom six of the PL? Almost certainly not. So the whole argument smacks of self-interest (contd) https://theathletic.com/1806000/
which, as I said, is not surprising because English football -- where either in the PL, rolling in cash, or you're on skid row -- encourages greed and self-preservation with no concern for the greater good. That's how the PL came about in 1992 and (contd) https://theathletic.com/1806000/
... that's what's caused the chasm that's built up between the "Big Six", the other 14 ... and everyone else. And that self-interest and greed is now mirrored in the European football landscape too. I constantly call out the greed of the elite, so (contd) https://theathletic.com/1806000/
equally I have no hesitation in calling out the greed and self-interest of clubs who are looking at ways to protect themselves from relegation. It's nothing against those clubs, but it's hypocritical because they would have a very different outlook (contd) https://theathletic.com/1806000/
if (like Leeds, West Brom etc) they were on the outside looking in. As I said in the article & many times before, English football encourages brazen self-interest at the expense of all else. It's not surprising but it's endlessly disappointing. Rant over. https://theathletic.com/1806000/
