EFL clubs agree to put their support behind Project Big Picture
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EFL clubs have swung as a bloc behind Project Big Picture, despite concerns over a potential seismic power shift at the top of the game.
With Championship and League One clubs unanimously agreeing to support the chair Rick Parry’s proposals, and League Two also overwhelmingly in favour after a day of emergency meetings, club owners and executives have calculated that reform of the game – and a Covid-19 bailout – is worth the cost of an agglomeration of power among the Premier League’s biggest clubs. Continue reading...