Good point this. Millions of people attend football matches each year. 92 people own clubs, with thousands more below them in the pyramid. And yet the whole of football was being carved up in secret by fewer than ten people. There must be no reform of football without fans. https://twitter.com/WeAreTheFSA/status/1319905845736595457

The head of the FA, operating without a mandate, seemingly against the interests of his organisation. The same from the EFL. A cadre of Premier League clubs. 99.9% of football had no voice, no representation of its interests. It was an attempted coup.

As a basic point of principle, those involved who were selling football out must be removed and PBP completely set aside. There can be no negotiation around a plan, however watered down, which is based on the idea that a handful of richest clubs should have more power and money.

Eventually we will recognise that a sustainable future for football can only be built on a redistribution of wealth and power, not further consolidation of it. If there are people at the top of the FA and EFL who don't accept this, they are in the wrong job.

We should not be surprised that richmen would favour oligarchy, but we should be shocked that football's leaders were the driving forces behind it. No amount of money is a fair trade off for the end of football's already shaky democracy.